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This Week in Water for December 17, 2023
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Was This Year’s COP Half Full or Half Empty? That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KRZA, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Dec 17, 2023
  • Length: 06:15
  • Purchases: 7
This Week in Water for March 19, 2023
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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The Looming Threat of “Phosphogeddon.” That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

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


  • Added: Mar 19, 2023
  • Length: 06:08
  • Purchases: 6
Nurdle Hurdles + Turning Plastic Into Gravel
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Neel Dhanesha
What is a nurdle, you ask? Is it the latest variation on the popular New York Times puzzle, Wordle? No, not quite. Nurdles are the tiny little petr...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Off Script: One Pharmacist's COVID Woes and Wins
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Dr Kelly Kent with patients.
A pharmacist and co-owner of an independent pharmacy in Iowa shares what life is like nearly two years into the pandemic.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2022
  • Length: 17:28
Daniel Oberhaus: Our Super-Charged Future (re-broadcast)
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Daniel Oberhaus
New iterations of the smartphone often focus on bells, whistles and other fancy features, when what we all really want for our devices are batterie...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jan 04, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Last Straw: Mark Marinozzi + Romain Troublé (re-broadcast)
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Romain Trouble
The next time you sip on a drink from a straw, you may want to think twice because humans are producing an inordinate amount of plastic waste on st...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Daniel Oberhaus: Our Super-Charged Future
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Daniel Oberhaus
New iterations of the smartphone often focus on bells, whistles and other fancy features, when what we all really want for our devices are batterie...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Spinoffs: How NASA Technologies Benefit Life on Earth
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Spinoff 21 has been published online by NASA., Credit: NASA
We examine a few of the thousands of technologies and innovations developed by NASA that are making lives better around our planet.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KIYU-FM, WFHB, KWMR and more


  • Added: Mar 03, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Alex Gilbert on the Texas Blackouts
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Alex Gilbert
All eyes have been on the Lone Star State recently, watching the grim and undeniable impact of climate change on a population completely unprepared...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Seeking the Killer Space App with Space Tango
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Anheuser Busch barley seed experiment in development at Space Tango’s Tangolab before heading to the International Space Station as a modular CubeLab, Credit: Mat Kaplan
Organizations are using the microgravity environment of the International Space Station to develop unique new products. One of them is Kentucky-bas...

Bought by KDNK, KCNP, KWMR, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 27, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Sammy Roth: Salton Sea Lithium
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Sammy Roth
If you follow tech news, it’s pretty hard to miss stories reminding us of the tremendous potential that lithium-ion batteries have in store for the...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 12, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Strange Brew: Atomo Bean-less Coffee
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Atomo Coffee
Many people around the world wouldn’t dream of starting their day without their coffee ritual. And they tend to be pretty particular about it — wha...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Fart-fegnugen: Jack Ewing on VW Emissions Scandal
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jack Ewing
When a West Virginia University research team won a grant in 2012 to run some tests on diesel cars, they could not have imagined that their relativ...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 14, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 1
A Little Rocket Company Shoots for the Moon
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist’s concept of IOS Neptune 5 rocket carrying Team SYNERGY MOON’s Google Lunar X PRIZE spacecraft, Credit: Bryan Versteeg
CEO Randa Milliron introduces us to Interorbital Systems, which wants to put your payload in orbit for as little as $8,000. Can they do it? Emily L...

Bought by KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KRZA and more


  • Added: Jan 03, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Breast Milk Bank Resurgence Helps Premature Babies, But Who Will Pay?
From: Side Effects Public Media
Series: Side Effects News
Caption: A 100 ml bottle of pasteurized, donated breast milk at the new non-profit milk bank in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. These cost $15 each., Credit: Karen Shakerdge
There's a reason donor milk is called "liquid gold" -- the fluid can make a big difference to premature babies with underdeveloped digestive system...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 04, 2016
  • Length: 06:24
  • Purchases: 1
Saving Our Skin: Conservation on Land and Sea
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Paul Salaman
There’s more than one way to support ecological conservation. Today on Sea Change Radio we talk with two individuals working on different fronts fo...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 04, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Cod Willing: David Abel on the Cod's Resurgence
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: David Abel
Since 1992, fish’n’chips fans may have noticed that there was no cod in their classic fried dish. That’s the year that the Canadian government issu...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 28:20
  • Purchases: 2
Geophysicist Ole Kaven on Man-Made Earthquakes
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Ole Kaven
Apparently things are moving and shaking in Oklahoma, literally. In the past 8 years earthquakes in the “Sooner State” have increased from 2 a year...

Bought by WMUU-LP and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: May 11, 2016
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 2
Dream Chaser: The Return of the Spaceplane
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's rendering of SNC's Dream Chaser berthed with the International Space Station, Credit: Sierra Nevada Corporation
We’re back at Space Symposium for a conversation with SNC’s Mark Sirangelo, leader of that company’s effort to build the Dream Chaser. We’ll also ...

Bought by KMUD, KWMR, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: May 09, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Episode 4: New Money
From: Raw Data
Series: Raw Data: Season 1
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Cryptocurrencies could revolutionize money and finance. But even more than that, they symbolize how trust is changing as we increasingly rely on te...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2016
  • Length: 25:24
Movers and Shakers at SpaceCom Expo
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NASA spacecraft models at SpaceCom Expo, Credit: Mat Kaplan
We join 1,600 space entrepreneurs and visionaries in Houston, and talk with Boeing, XCOR, Johnson Space Center Director Ellen Ochoa and more. Emily...

Bought by WRGY, KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 24, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Imitations: On GMOs and Concrete
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Brooke Borel
Now that Stephen Colbert has put his alter ego to bed, some of you may be missing broadcasters pretending to be someone else. Well, apparently, Col...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 04, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Wi-Fi Power
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: PRX default Piece image
New microelectronic devices may get their energy through Wi-Fi signals.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jun 13, 2015
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Welcome to the future, Sir: At the cusp of virtual reality
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Programmers show off their virtual reality experiments.
Cris Miranda believes in the promise of virtual reality. After decades of hype, 2015 may be the year that it breaks into homes around the country.

  • Added: Feb 04, 2015
  • Length: 11:41
Silicon Valley's Prehistoric Past
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Construction site at the Calaveras Dam in the East Bay hills.
When work began to rebuild the Calaveras Dam, Paleontologist Jim Walker was called to the scene to hunt for fossils. He expected to find a few, but...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jan 12, 2015
  • Length: 05:50
  • Purchases: 1