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Hormone Trouble with Dr. Tom Zoeller
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Endocrine disrupting chemicals in everyday products can alter how your body works.

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Sep 09, 2024
  • Length: 29:16
  • Purchases: 1
Toxic Tragedy
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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The Story of Monsanto's Infamous Weed Killer - with Carey Gillam

Bought by WRFA-LP and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 09, 2024
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 2
The Curse of PFAS with Dr. David Bond
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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PFAS "Forever chemicals" are toxic to humans. Now we're learning that the companies that make PFAS chemicals knew it all along.

Bought by WMUU-LP and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Aug 26, 2024
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 2
811-Martian Meteorite Hunters
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Cacao, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Perhaps someday humans will travel to Mars, walk the surface of the red planet, and collect meteorites. Recent studies suggest Mars to be an excit...

Bought by KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Plastic's Endless Toxic Existence with Erica Cirino
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Author Erica Cirino talks about her work at the non-profit Plastic Pollution Coalition.

Bought by WMUU-LP and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jul 22, 2024
  • Length: 28:33
  • Purchases: 2
The Grilling Dilemma with Denise Snyder
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Dietician and cancer expert Denise Snyder talks about the hazards associated with grilling meat.

Bought by WMUU-LP and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jul 15, 2024
  • Length: 28:52
  • Purchases: 2
Water, Water Every Where
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
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A groundbreaking new report reveals the looming threats facing United States coastlines from now through 2100. Experts Dr. Juan Declet-Barreto and ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 09, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Eco Report - June 21, 2024
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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In this week's feature report, WFHB News Correspondents Noelle Herhusky-Schneider, Kade Young and Madison Stratton investigate Indiana's efforts t...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2024
  • Length: 30:38
Standing Up to the Natural Gas Industry with Dr. Sandra Steingraber
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Renowned biologist and author Dr. Sandra Steingraber talks about her efforts to push back against the expansion of natural gas pipelines and relate...

Bought by WRFA-LP and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 17, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
How Do You Help Patients Who Show Up in the ER 100 Times a Year?
From: Tradeoffs
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Some patients’ lives are so complicated by trauma, poverty and other social problems that routine conditions like diabetes and asthma regularly tur...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2024
  • Length: 24:06
An Insurance Company Bought This Doctor’s Practice. She’s Worried About Her Patients
From: Tradeoffs
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One doctor debates whether to work for the nation's largest insurance company after it purchased the independent practice she worked for in Oregon.

  • Added: Jun 12, 2024
  • Length: 17:43
A New Kind of Primary Care Comes to America
From: Tradeoffs
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A group of nurses in Baltimore wants to bring basic care to every person in a neighborhood regardless of age, health, income or insurance. Can this...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2024
  • Length: 22:55
801-Jacqui’s PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Astronaut on an Asteroid , Credit: NASA (Advanced Concepts Program)
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Jacqueline Fazekas was asteroid hunting with our small but mighty Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona when sh...

Bought by KCHW, Raven Radio, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jun 02, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Plastic in the Placenta with Dr. Marcus Garcia
From: Doug Wood
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The scientist who isolated tiny pieces of plastic in human placenta tissue is our guest.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 28:33
  • Purchases: 1
The BabySafe Project with Patti Wood
From: Doug Wood
Series: Grassroots
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After discussing the environmental news, Patti & Doug talk about how and why to protect your baby from wireless radiation.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 29:10
  • Purchases: 1
Surprise! Plans To Resolve High Medical Bills Are Still a Mess
From: Tradeoffs
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Patients are now mostly protected from surprise bills, but doctors and insurers are still fighting about the prices.

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  • Added: Apr 15, 2024
  • Length: 17:20
  • Purchases: 1
Forgetting the Lessons and Losses of Covid
From: KSFP
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The first years of the COVID-19 pandemic are behind us and it’s time for an early reckoning of our successes and failures. An epidemiologist shares...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 21:30
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 KCHW, KRWG, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Testing for Toxins with Leah Segedie
From: Doug Wood
Series: Grassroots
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Mamavation is the leading site for independent testing of consumer products. We talk with founder Leah Segedie.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 28:11
  • Purchases: 1
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 KCHW, Raven Radio, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP and more


  • Added: Feb 18, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
The Glyphosate-Autism Connection
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Dr. Stephanie Seneff of MIT talks about her research linking pesticide residues in food to the destruction of gut bacteria and link to autism.

Bought by WMUU-LP and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jan 29, 2024
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 2
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
Is Wireless Tech Making You Sick?
From: Doug Wood
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The story of Ruth Moss, her smart meter, and her fight to establish a single name for the physical symptoms of exposure to RF radiation.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jan 22, 2024
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
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: 10