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Global Plastics Crisis with Dr. Leo Trasande
From: Doug Wood
Series: Grassroots
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After the news, Dr. Trasande, a delegate to the UN conference on plastics, talks about plastic as a human health issue.

  • Added: Apr 29, 2024
  • Length: 28:09
How Pushing Hospitals to Give Away More Free Care Could Backfire
From: Tradeoffs
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With high health bills drowning patients in debt, some lawmakers want nonprofit hospitals to give away more free care. But experts warn that could ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2024
  • Length: 15:44
787-Far Out
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Milky Way Rising Over the Gila Wilderness, Credit: David Thornburg
In 2024, Voyager I is 163 times further from the Sun than we are and is the most distant, human made, traveler in the night.

Bought by KRWG, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
786-Comet 31
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Enke, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Alex Gibbs discovered his 31st comet while asteroid hunting in Leo with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Ariz...

Bought by Raven Radio, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KGLP and more


  • Added: Feb 18, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Why Are People Afraid of the Most Popular Opioid Addiction Treatment?
From: Tradeoffs
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Fentanyl killed 75,000 people in 2022. Now it’s making one of the few treatments for opioid addiction harder to use.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 23:50
782-Probing The Cosmic Web
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: A Cosmic Thread, Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Feige Wang (University of Arizona)
In the past two decades astronomers have discovered that galaxies are not randomly distributed in space but rather occur along filaments of mass wi...

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  • Added: Jan 21, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
This Week in Water for January 7, 2024
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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How Whales Might Help Us Communicate with Extraterrestrials. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KRZA, KGNU Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Jan 07, 2024
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 6
This Week in Water for December 10, 2023
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Phase Down? Or Phase Out? That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KMXT, KRZA, KGNU Community Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 10, 2023
  • Length: 06:05
  • Purchases: 8
This Week in Water for November 19, 2023
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Going Nuclear in a Small Way. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

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  • Added: Nov 19, 2023
  • Length: 05:58
  • Purchases: 7
More Hospitals Move to Confront Medical Errors Head On
From: Tradeoffs
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One out of every four Medicare patients in the hospital is the victim of a medical error. Over the past 20 years, a growing number of hospitals hav...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2023
  • Length: 22:59
Growing Pains as California Adds Social Services to Medicaid
From: Tradeoffs
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California’s Medicaid program is two years into the nation’s most ambitious effort yet to cover non-traditional health care services like housing a...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 16:55
Medical or recreational? States Debate where Psychedelics Belong
From: Tradeoffs
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A wave of new research is showing the promise of psychedelics to help with mental health conditions —- like depression and post traumatic stress di...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2023
  • Length: 16:39
This Week in Water for October 15, 2023
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Fireproofing Your Home…with Fungi? That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KRZA, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Oct 15, 2023
  • Length: 06:10
  • Purchases: 7
The 12 Million People Lost in a Maze of Medicare and Medicaid
From: Tradeoffs
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Many of America’s poorest and sickest patients are stuck navigating two separate insurance programs — Medicare and Medicaid — to get the care they ...

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2023
  • Length: 24:12
  • Purchases: 1
764 Green Airglow
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Green Airglow Over Colorado, Credit: Aaron Watson
The natural night sky is alive with its own lights. In addition to celestial sources often there is natural night sky airglow powered by space wea...

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  • Added: Sep 17, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
When Research and the Realities of Practicing Medicine Collide
From: Tradeoffs
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This summer, our research reporter Soleil Shah added a new role to his resume: first-year medical resident. Now he spends his days alternating betw...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2023
  • Length: 17:02
Progress and Pain Points in National Crisis Line's First Year
From: Tradeoffs
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It’s been one year since 988 — the country’s new mental health crisis line — went live with hopes of transforming crisis services in America. So fa...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2023
  • Length: 24:53
Rooting Out Racial Bias in Health Care AI, Pt. 1
From: Tradeoffs
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There’s growing excitement that artificial intelligence can make health care better by speeding up care, improving diagnoses and easing the burden ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 26, 2023
  • Length: 18:27
  • Purchases: 1
This Week in Water for May 21, 2023
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Footprints You Leave on the Beach Contain Your DNA. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

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  • Added: May 21, 2023
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 6
This Week in Water for May 7, 2023
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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When a Dustup Is a Good Thing. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KRZA, KGNU Community Radio, RadioFreePalmer, WYAP and more


  • Added: May 07, 2023
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 7
This Week in Water for April 30, 2023
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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How Climate Change Means More Pirates. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KRZA, KGNU Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Drugs Changing How We Treat Obesity
From: Tradeoffs
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A new class of drugs can help people lose up to one-fifth of their body weight and manage serious health conditions associated with obesity. But th...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 16:32
Finless Foods: A Different Kettle of Fish
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Shannon Cosentino-Roush
Long time Sea Change Radio listeners know a thing or two about the challenges of being both a seafood lover and an environmentalist. It’s hard to k...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Apr 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Could honeybees be our new citizen scientists?
From: Henrietta McFarlane
Caption: Honeybees to be collected by New York City Beekeepers on the Upper West Side , Credit: Henrietta McFarlane
We don’t know nearly enough about our city’s microbiome. That’s the invisible microorganisms which live with, including virus’ and bacteria that ca...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2023
  • Length: 04:33
Cracking the Havana Syndrome with Dr. Beatrice Golomb
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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The symptoms suffered by diplomats and White House staff came from the same kind of radiation emitted by cell phones and cell towers.

Bought by WNED Buffalo and WYAP


  • Added: Apr 03, 2023
  • Length: 57:10
  • Purchases: 2