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Living Planet 08/31/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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On this week’s show: Plastic planet? - We are drowning in plastic! It pollutes our oceans, beaches, rivers and forests. Let's talk solutions. W...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFIU, KMUN, and KUPR low power FM


  • Added: Aug 31, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
Food Sleuth Radio, Brise Tencer Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that organic farming methods improve soil and water quality, and can help mitigate climate change? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Reg...

Bought by KVMR, KKWE Niijii Radio, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 31, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
90 Second Naturalist - September 2018 Modules
From: WGUC/ WVXU
Series: The 90-Second Naturalist
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90-second modules that celebrate the natural world and bring the wonder of nature into daily life.

Bought by WRIR, WLRN, and KCBX


  • Added: Aug 30, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Craig Downs: Coral Reef Rescue
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Craig Downs
Visitors to the Hawaiian island of Oahu marvel at the splendor of Hanauma Bay, a volcanic crater teeming with coral reefs, tropical fish, and the o...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 'The Sea'


  • Added: Aug 28, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Science writer describes one of the ways the Great Lakes are being protected
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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We all know the Great Lakes are a precious source of fresh water…and lots of people around the world are desperate for water. An interstate compact...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2018
  • Length: 19:56
Queen Bees
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
Caption: What sets a worker apart from a queen bee?, Credit: maggiedurch/Pixabay
The diet of baby bees activates genes that turn some into workers and others into queens.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, Spokane Public Radio, WTIP, WLPR and more


  • Added: Aug 27, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 6
Free the Beaches
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Free the Beaches tells the story of activist Ned Coll and his campaign to open New England’s shoreline to African Americans, as northern white fami...

Bought by WCNY, WFHB, WYAP, Harford Community Radio, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 27, 2018
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 11
Free the Beaches
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Free the Beaches tells the story of activist Ned Coll and his campaign to open New England’s shoreline to African Americans, as northern white fami...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, WJCT, KMUN, KMXT, WVAS and more


  • Added: Aug 27, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 9
GN_4.29_MexicanGalapagos
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
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Mexico protects it's most valuable waters.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2018
  • Length: 02:30
2018-08-26 Permanently Temporary
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Larry Goldzband, Executive Director of BCDC, the Bay Conservation and Development Commission, Credit: Sarah Gonzalez
With the melting of Antarctica’s ice and the Greenland ice sheet, projections for the oceans to rise dramatically and quickly are increasing. Watch...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, NPR Now, KWIT, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
Living Planet 08/24/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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On this week's show: Pesticides and our Food - Thanks to the invention of pesticides, fresh foods can be imported from every corner of the worl...

Bought by KMUN, KRZA, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KUPR low power FM, and WFIU


  • Added: Aug 24, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 5
Food Sleuth Radio, Robert Beelman Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that a compound largely found in mushrooms could help prevent neuro-degenerative diseases? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered ...

Bought by KVMR and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Aug 24, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
World in Progress 08/23/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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On this week's show: Avocados are hailed as healthy superfood, but the craze is wrecking havoc in many communities. For instance in Chile where ...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
Ian Power: Rocking Climate Change
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Ian Power
There is no silver bullet to solve the intractable problem of global warming. Nevertheless, there is a lot of vital and hopeful work being done to ...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
Not a scientist? You can still help collect valuable data
From: WXXI Rochester
Caption: Volunteer Peter Lent wades through Oatka Creek in Scottsville, New York, looking for bugs to send back to Albany., Credit: Caitlin Whyte/WXXI News
Helping the environment isn’t just about recycling and abandoning plastic straws. WXXI’s Caitlin Whyte explored the concept of citizen science, and...

Bought by WBFO


  • Added: Aug 21, 2018
  • Length: 03:48
  • Purchases: 1
Ocean Literacy: One Big Ocean
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: U.S. and Atlantic Ocean basin, Credit: NASA
"The Earth Has One Big Ocean With Many Features" So states the first principle of the ocean literacy curriculum, a series of fundamental concepts t...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2018
  • Length: 04:38
The Dispossessed, Part 7; The Mountain People, Chapter 3
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Ida Valley, Credit: Charles McGuigan
It all started with the red wolves who now live, for the most part, in eastern North Carolina at Alligator River. These wolves had once numbered in...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2018
  • Length: 24:33
Fast-Living Fish
From: Science Update
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An animal that grows up, reproduces and dies of old age in just a few weeks.

  • Added: Aug 18, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
Cancer-Resistant Elephants
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
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Researchers discover the genetic basis for elephants’ resistance to cancer.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, WLPR , and KENW


  • Added: Aug 18, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 5
488-20 Years
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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It has been 20 years since the world woke up to the news that a half mile diameter asteroid, 1997 XF11, discovered by Space Watch on Kitt Peak, had...

Bought by KENW, WLPR , WTIP, KRWG, KKRN and more


  • Added: Aug 17, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
487-Touching The Sun
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Imagine a spacecraft traveling at a speed that would take it from New York to Tokyo in less than a minute, a mere 4 million miles from the surface ...

Bought by KENW, WLPR , WTIP, KKRN, KSFR and more


  • Added: Aug 16, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
MN Native News: Mni Ki Wakan Water Summit
From: Ampers
Series: Minnesota Native News
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“This week on Minnesota Native News, we visit the Mni Ki Wakan: World Indigenous Peoples’ Decade of Water Summit, held in St. Paul, and hear how it...

Bought by KSRQ, KFAI Minneapolis, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KMSU, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 15, 2018
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 10
Keith Schneider: Malaysian Building Boom
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Keith Schneider
Over the last few decades, the skyline of Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur has mushroomed – a conglomeration of skyscrapers highlighted by The Petro...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
Birdsong Dreams
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
Caption: Zebra finches
Researchers have discovered that when songbirds dream, the vocal muscles they use for singing become active.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, KRZA, WMMT, WTIP, WLPR and more


  • Added: Aug 14, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 6

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