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The climate crisis can feel distant — like it’s someone else’s problem — until your town is flooded, your home is damaged by storms, or you're stru...
- Added: Jan 11, 2024
- Length: 58:58
In recent years, scientists have begun testing geoengineering technologies to slow down or even stop global warming. But, is geoengineering safe? A...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Oct 30, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Contemporary Western fire science is integrating what Indigenous Peoples discovered over thousands of years of observation, and trial and error: fi...
- Added: Aug 28, 2023
- Length: 28:30
Elizabeth Azzuz, Secretary of Cultural Fire Management Council, discusses her work using Traditional Native Karuk methods of prescribed burning to ...
Bought by KMUN and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Sep 18, 2022
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 2
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
This episode is a reminiscence…something I seem to be doing a lot of lately…and also a plea for getting our children and grandchildren out of doors...
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 04:02
I hope we all get all of our monsoon fixes this season. One of those for me and maybe you too will be toads calling from puddles.
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 04:01
I wrote this song about Lycium fremontii when I was managing the native plant nursery of Desert Survivors on West Starr Pass in Tucson. The nursery...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 05:01
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
Every time I pull a reference book or field guide off the shelf to read about a recently seen insect I seem to run across a quote by the famous ent...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 05:09
When I was a boy vultures were called buzzards. It’s an interesting common name that came across the ocean with early British colonists who had no ...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:03
Anyone who lives in groundhog country will have a woodchuck tale or two to tell. Growing up in Kentucky I sure did. At the University of Arizona in...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 03:47
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
One of the most magical moments of my childhood was when I first dug up potatoes in a garden and we later had some for dinner. I was awe struck! Th...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:59
One of the positive sides of isolating and staying very close to home during the pandemic is that we discovered new places and rediscovered old hau...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 05:07
Our oceans are rising and taking over more land every year. Most governments try to fix this by blocking the water out and sealing the humans in. B...
- Added: Mar 07, 2022
- Length: 03:43
- Purchases: 2
The loose rock fandango can get pretty elaborate with elements of modern dance, hokey pokey, ballet and of course some jazz hands thrown into the m...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 05:00
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Global COVID Vaccination Inequity Crisis Demands Urgent Action; Indian Sch...
Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., RADIOLEX, and WKPW
- Added: Sep 29, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
The scientific name of the band-tailed pigeon is no longer Columba fasciata, but is Patagioenas fasciata. That’s too bad because I was hoping to st...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 04:59
The scientific name of the ringtail is Bassariscus astutus. It’s in the Procyonidae, the same family as our local borderlands’ critters the raccoon...
- Added: Jun 01, 2021
- Length: 04:56
The genus Artemisia is found in the sunflower family Asteraceae and there are over 200 species found around the world in the northern hemisphere. W...
- Added: Jun 01, 2021
- Length: 05:04
This week on the show: What would you ask a Neanderthal? -
We can bring Neanderthals back, a la Jurassic Park, with technologies we have today....
- Added: Jul 30, 2020
- Length: 30:00
While citizens take to the streets to protest racist violence, the pandemic has its own brutal inequities. Black, Latino, and Native American peopl...
Bought by KWMR, CHSR-FM 97.9, KMUN, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, Royalton Community Radio and more
- Added: Jun 08, 2020
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 15
My Apsáalooke name is Iichiinmaaáatchilash - Fortunate with Horses and my English name is JoRee LaFrance. I come from the Apsáalooke (Crow) nation ...
- Added: Jan 29, 2020
- Length: 04:39
I’m telling you, late summer and fall are great times to get out into the hills, especially if you want to find interesting plants. While you’re ou...
- Added: Sep 24, 2019
- Length: 05:02
