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Climate Connections April 15 - May 10, 2024
From: ChavoBart Digital Media
Series: Climate Connections
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This month on Climate Connections schools in coal country are going solar, some anglers say Rhode Island’s Block Island wind farm has improved fish...

Bought by KWSO, WTJU, Mountain Streams Radio WKYW-LP, WNIN, KTSW 89.9 and more


  • Added: Apr 09, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 18
Climate Connections March 18 - April 12, 2024
From: ChavoBart Digital Media
Series: Climate Connections
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This month on Climate Connections snowmobiles don’t have to be noisy and polluting, the plastics industry’s carbon footprint has doubled in the pas...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, WNIJ, WTJU, KTSW 89.9 and more


  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 21
Pain, Fear and Waste: The Costs of Unnecessary Care
From: Tradeoffs
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We explore “cascades of care” — how a clinician’s desire to be thorough can snowball into a harmful spiral of unnecessary care.

  • Added: Jun 09, 2022
  • Length: 03:53
Can More Time on Medicaid Lower Maternal Deaths? - Two-way
From: Tradeoffs
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The country’s high rates of pregnancy-related deaths and complications, and the potential impact Biden’s push to expand Medicaid coverage for pregn...

  • Added: May 26, 2022
  • Length: 03:51
Let's Make a Deal...on Drug Prices
From: Tradeoffs
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Democrats are on the brink of passing a historic set of drug price reforms. How will they impact patients, insurers and the drug industry?

  • Added: Nov 15, 2021
  • Length: 18:21
Top of Mind - Space Debris, Wilderness Survival, Robot Sweating
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Space Debris; Topic 2: Wilderness Survival; Topic 3: Robot Sweating

Bought by KOWS, RADIOLEX, and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 08, 2021
  • Length: 51:44
  • Purchases: 3
GN_4.37_Cooperative Drugs
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Health care in America has always run at a high cost. In Utah, hospitals are taking action to make pharmaceuticals affordable for all.

  • Added: Apr 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
The Definition of Essential Care, Through Physical Therapy
From: Lucas Woods
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Many healthcare services have been either cancelled or moved online due to the pandemic. Others are considered essential. But how do you decide wha...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2020
  • Length: 03:41
A Greener Commute
From: Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Series: Ways & Means "Shorts"
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Research with commuters in Durham, NC shows what gets them to leave their cars behind and take alternate transportation.

  • Added: Apr 03, 2019
  • Length: 03:18
Algae bloom forecast looks bad for Lake Erie
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Algae bloom, 2011 , Credit: NASA
Harmful algae blooms generally begin to hit the lake in late July, and are triggered mainly by nutrient runoff from farms in the region. Toxins fro...

Bought by WCMU Michigan, WXXI Rochester, WKSU, WCPN, and WBFO


  • Added: Jul 13, 2017
  • Length: :57
  • Purchases: 5
Mild year for Lake Erie algae blooms
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Western Lake Erie on September 20,2016 , Credit: NASA
The 2016 algae bloom on Lake Erie was mild compared to last year, thanks to a dry spring that limited runoff from farms.

Bought by WSKG, WXXI Rochester, and WBFO


  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 01:03
  • Purchases: 3
Scientists study DNA to find pollution source in Great Lakes
From: Great Lakes Today
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Buffalo State scientists are using a new gene-based technology to identify the source of pollution in Lake Erie.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WBFO, WCPN, and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Aug 26, 2016
  • Length: 01:38
  • Purchases: 4
Shipwreck from 1803 found in Lake Ontario
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: The sloop Washington went down in November 1803., Credit: Jim Kennard
An eighteenth century sloop called the Washington has been discovered off the coast of Oswego, New York.

Bought by Michigan Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCMU Michigan, WCPN, and WBFO


  • Added: Aug 17, 2016
  • Length: 01:17
  • Purchases: 5
Projects help sturgeon thrive in Great Lakes region
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Juvenile lake sturgeon, Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
The U-S Fish and Wildlife Service awarded 1.5 million dollars this week to 8 research and restoration projects across the Great Lakes -- including ...

Bought by WSKG, WXXI Rochester, and WBFO


  • Added: Jul 28, 2016
  • Length: 01:16
  • Purchases: 3
Environmental issues highlight meeting of Great Lakes mayors
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Annual meeting and conference of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative

Bought by WCPN, WILL, and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Jun 16, 2016
  • Length: :47
  • Purchases: 3
E-Health for Chronic Conditions - Machiko Tomita - PHM
From: Public Health Minute
Series: Public Health Minute
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Being knowledgeable about one’s own illness is the first step in self-management. Bill Latimer finds out more on Public Health Minute.

  • Added: May 20, 2015
  • Length: :59
Feature Report - SPH2 Breakthrough
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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An IU School of Medicine cancer research team is in process of refining a new drug that would target the protein SHP2, a protein that contributes t...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 08:23
Feature Report - Venus Between Us
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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For those of us who will not be around 105 years from now, this is our last chance to see the planet Venus pass between earth and the sun. The astr...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 08:19
Feature Report - The Multidisciplinary Field of Evolution
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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Geologist Walter Alvarez is in town through the class of 1943 Wells Scholars Program as a visiting professor for two weeks. For full broadcasts of ...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2012
  • Length: 09:46
Sage Grouse Strut
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Noise from energy development may threaten Sage Grouse mating

  • Added: Apr 28, 2008
  • Length: 05:12
From Self-Help to Science
From: Chris Berdik
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McLean Psychiatric Hospital to research effectiveness of life coaching

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 09, 2008
  • Length: 04:43
  • Purchases: 1
Humpback Whale Song
From: Heidi Chang
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Why do humpback whales sing? Some researchers are trying to solve that mystery as they take you on a wild adventure in Hawaii. Experience some cl...

Bought by PRX Remix, Here and Now, 90.9 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station, The Nature Podcast, KRCC-FM and more


  • Added: Mar 14, 2007
  • Length: 09:49
  • Purchases: 6
Penguin Commandos
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2006 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A team of expert veterinarians is always on alert to help save animals from the devastating consequences of marine oil spills.

Bought by KMXT, KOSU, and WEPS


  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3