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This episode is a reminiscence sparked by some photos taken over 60 years ago. I’m pretty sure my father took the photos, because I can’t remember ...
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 04:42
This is the time of year when you see desert millipedes out and about on muggy overcast days. Sometimes even crossing the two lane blacktop roads n...
- Added: Aug 12, 2022
- Length: 04:03
This week on the show: Who speaks for the trees? -
We travel to the Brazilian Amazon, where the forest is disappearing at an alarming rate and...
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WXDU, and Radio Kansas
- Added: Aug 12, 2022
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 3
At my age I should being thinking more of getting rid of clutter rather than adding to it. I like to tell our daughters Katy and Sarah that some da...
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 04:23
I’ve told the story of the yucca moths and the soaptree yuccas many times. I love to tell it when I give talks and I’m not making this up, many yea...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 04:06
I’ve known barn owls since I was a kid in Kentucky and I always saw them in barns roosting or nesting up high in the rafters. I remember finding a ...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:43
This week on the show: Innovative perspectives and ancient forests -
An illegal bus ride with Palestinians to the beach. Cameroonian Baka indig...
- Added: Nov 19, 2021
- Length: 30:00
There is no getting around it, every summer monsoon when the borderlands come to life it is so exciting!
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 05:23
I spent so much time jabbering about my conversion to a desert rat and monsoon believer that I left out some fun stuff.
Native bees that buzz poll...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 04:43
We're easing you into the New Year with a gorgeous listen on this week’s Living Planet - a trip to New Zealand's Waipoua Forest. It's one of the o...
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KRZA, and WFIU
- Added: Jan 03, 2020
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 3
I grew up in Kentucky where the state flower is goldenrod. The particular species that has that honor is Solidago gigantea. I wonder how it was cho...
- Added: Nov 13, 2019
- Length: 05:32
I think it’s fascinating that there are several species of winterfat found in Eurasia and Europe. That’s where the genus was first described by a G...
- Added: Nov 13, 2019
- Length: 05:43
Xanthisma gracilis is an annual and found all over the southwest and into Mexico as well. Duh. A common name is slender goldenweed or spiny zinnia....
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 05:14
Cliffrose is the star of this show. It also goes by the common name quinine bush or the scientific name of Purshia mexicana. If you look at a map o...
- Added: Sep 24, 2019
- Length: 10:12
The scientific name for our gopher snake (or gophersnake. I’ve seen it written both ways) is Pituophis catenifer. The genus looks like a combinatio...
- Added: Aug 20, 2019
- Length: 05:31
It’s always fun to have a quest when headed into the hills. It’s okay if the search doesn’t work out. It’s like the great old line, “getting ther...
- Added: Aug 20, 2019
- Length: 05:32
This week on the show: The power of indigenous people -
Indigenous climate leader Pasang Dolma Sherpa talks about the 'historic moment' for i...
- Added: Jun 20, 2019
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: How will Christmas change as the world gets increasingly warmer? We take a look at how reindeer are affected, whether a re...
Bought by KVSC, WNMU-FM, KMUN, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WFIU
- Added: Dec 28, 2018
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 5
Living Planet: Animals, to cuddle or kill? -
Shoot to kill or live and let live? We're not always kind to animals, unless perhaps they're in a z...
Bought by KRZA, KUPR low power FM, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WFIU
- Added: Jul 05, 2018
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 4
This week on the show: A journey to Africa -
Rwanda’s mountain gorillas were once headed for extinction. Their numbers are now slowly recove...
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KUPR low power FM, and WFIU
- Added: May 10, 2018
- Length: 29:57
- Purchases: 3
I was incorrect about the species of Acalypha in this show. The correct name is A. phleoides (the former A. lindheimeri), not neomexicana as I stat...
- Added: Dec 31, 2017
- Length: 05:16
I don’t think there is anything more heartbreaking than seeing a road killed pet. Well, honestly, I have a hard enough time with road killed wildli...
- Added: Dec 31, 2017
- Length: 05:28
We have had 4-wheel drive vehicles for many years and we’ve always found it to be a great tool that can take the worry out of some roads. I just ha...
- Added: Dec 30, 2017
- Length: 05:16
Should martian microbes be sacrificed to human space exploration.
Bought by Radio Newark, KMXT, WLPR , KENW, KUPR low power FM and more
- Added: Dec 01, 2016
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 7
Bobby speaks, on location, with Ben Coletti, Director of Operations at The Thunderbird Beach Resort. They discuss growing up on the redneck beaches...
- Added: Apr 19, 2013
- Length: 01:30:52
