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For such a small region, this sprawling landscape of the Bootheel has some of the most productive farmland in the U.S. A solid water supply and nut...
- Added: Jun 03, 2015
- Length: 06:50
There’s a new push to get tourists in New Orleans off bourbon street and into nature. Eco-tourism is the new way to explore Louisiana according to ...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Dec 08, 2014
- Length: 04:34
- Purchases: 1
Kesterson Wildlife Refuge had a little known problem back in 1982: selenium contamination was leading to birth defects and death in fish and birds....
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 16:03
- Purchases: 1
Hawaii has not only become the primary testing ground for the seed industry but a battleground between biotech companies and concerned residents. M...
- Added: Jun 09, 2014
- Length: 05:12
They’re called bunker up north, and Pogies here in the South, and are sometimes referred to as “The Most Important Fish In the Sea”. These are the ...
- Added: Apr 11, 2014
- Length: 04:48
Coal is embedded into the culture and image of Eastern Kentucky, but the industry is declining in the region. And it's declining permanently. The c...
- Added: Dec 12, 2013
- Length: 18:17
Biologist Steve Murawski is leading a new team of researchers trying to figure out the long-term impact of the Deepwater Horizon spill—not just on ...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Nov 05, 2013
- Length: 08:03
- Purchases: 1
New Bedford Harbor ranks among the worst harbors in the country for surface oil spills. Harbor officials and environmental groups can’t even agree ...
- Added: Jun 03, 2013
- Length: 06:50
In Ohio, some of the best pockets of oil and gas in the East run right under Amish country. Reid Frazier found the drilling boom is confronting the...
- Added: Mar 11, 2013
- Length: 06:37
The drought that settled into Oklahoma last year is getting worse. And it’s hurting business owners such as Harold Blackledge, an agricultural pilo...
- Added: Aug 20, 2012
- Length: 03:30
In late 2011. the federal government decided to demolish five old seaside cottages on Cape Cod that were at threat of being washed away due to coas...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 29, 2012
- Length: 08:26
- Purchases: 1
When life gives you sludge, old medical equipment and poop...make nature preserves, life saving supplies and energy.
- Added: Apr 14, 2012
- Length: 28:31
Whitebark pine trees, once a feature of the mountainous west, are under attack. Nearly two-thirds have died from beetle attacks and other causes, h...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Mar 17, 2012
- Length: 05:56
- Purchases: 1
St. Louis is one of hundreds of older cities across the country facing the challenge of dealing with an aging sewer system.
This summer, the Metro...
- Added: Nov 18, 2011
- Length: 03:54
This 90-second short feature briefly explores whether the often frantic reporting on a severe weather event mirrored the reality of those who exper...
- Added: Aug 28, 2011
- Length: 01:24
Exploring the scientific debate over the risk of another major earthquake along the New Madrid fault system in the Midwest.
- Added: Aug 28, 2011
- Length: 04:36
Until very recently Philadelphians recycled a dismal five-percent of their trash. But all that began to change a few years ago when the city steppe...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WTIP
- Added: Aug 04, 2011
- Length: 04:21
- Purchases: 2
Cleanup is continuing along the Yellowstone River in south-east Montana where an estimated 42,000 gallons of crude oil spewed from a burst ExxonMob...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jul 05, 2011
- Length: 03:24
- Purchases: 1
Biologists estimate thousands of pronghorn antelope died in Montana over the long, harsh winter...thousands more are stranded at the Fort Peck Rese...
- Added: Jun 10, 2011
- Length: 04:11
They say death, like taxes, is one of the few certain things in life. But the way that culture deals with death is not a static institution. In New...
- Added: Jan 24, 2011
- Length: 04:17
A UC Berkeley researcher is attacking toxic hydrocarbons left over from oil spills with microbes, earthworms, and a few acres of land. Catherine Gi...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Aug 11, 2010
- Length: 04:45
- Purchases: 1
For the past week, the world’s leaders have hashed out policy details at the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change. Now some of the spotlight wil...
- Added: Dec 10, 2009
- Length: 04:17
Shawn Allee looks at a dioxin and soil study and how the science might influence other clean-ups around the country.
- Added: Nov 06, 2009
- Length: 03:37
Shawn Allee finds old dioxin pollution from a Dow chemical plant poses a health risk today.
- Added: Nov 06, 2009
- Length: 03:29
Shawn Allee talks with residents about living with Dow and dioxin.
- Added: Nov 06, 2009
- Length: 03:38
