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Maria Gallucci: Zero Emission Marine Vessels

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

When it comes to energy transitions, marine vessels tend to get overlooked, even though they are some of the worst polluters of our oceans and air....

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Andrea Thompson: Battling Extreme Heat Fatigue

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

While you're shoveling snow out of the driveway this week, you may not want to hear about extreme heat - but then again, maybe you do! This week on...

Matt Simon on Microplastics, Pt. 2

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

Last week on Sea Change Radio, we learned that the plastics industry plans to triple production in the next 40 years, reaching 3 trillion pounds of...

Matt Simon on Microplastics, Pt. 1

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

Look around you: at this very moment, chances are that within a one-foot radius of your body, there’s something plastic. The ubiquity of plastic co...

David Ho on Carbon Offsets: Much Ado About Nothing?

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

Carbon offsets are often touted as a solution to humanity’s bad habit of emitting an awful lot of CO2. But how many of us actually know what things...

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Israeli Entrepreneur and Philanthropist Ziv Aviram on the EcoBridge Initiative

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

Have you ever thought about what you'd do to save the planet if you were a billionaire? Well, this week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with billiona...

706-Wonders to Behold(492)

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

From the time 3 million years ago that our ancestor Lucy walked in what is now Ethiopia until the widespread use of electric lighting began in the ...

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Neel Dhanesha: Nurdle Hurdles

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

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...

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Andrea Copping: The Latest on Marine Energy Projects

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

We hear a lot about solar and wind power, but a renewable source of clean energy that continues to be largely untapped is the ocean. According to t...

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605-Monsoon Nights

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: A lightning bolt strikes in the western part of the city, part of the second of two bands of monsoon storms to roll over the area, Tucson, Ariz., August 28, 2019., Credit: Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star

Every year the Monsoon summer rains come to the American southwest in July and August. After the threat of wild fires has been rained out, monsoo...

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Paul Wheaton Pt. I: Home Heating Solutions

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

Many of us are spending a whole lot more time at home these days, and are consequently knee-deep in a bunch of home improvement projects. A great a...

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Chinese Air Quality + Ekoru Search Engine

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

Looking for some good news as we enter yet another week of sheltering-in-place? Perhaps you feel like doing a Google search to discover an upside t...

PurpleAir Founder Adrian Dybwad

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

Northern California’s now infamous Camp Fire was not only the largest, longest, and deadliest wildfire in the state’s history, it also produced rec...

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1918 Flu Pandemic Lessons

From: Science Update
Series: Science Update

Caption: The 1918 influenza pandemic killed 50 million people., Credit: US Army

Scientists are learning from history’s most deadly pandemic.

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Wild Bird Song Learning

From: Science Update
Series: Science Update

A new study shows that birds can learn from recordings in the wild.

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Noise-Canceling Brain Circuit

From: Science Update
Series: Science Update

Two areas of our brain communicate to filter out the noise caused by our own movements.

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Green Roof Birds

From: Science Update
Series: Science Update

Green roofs in New York City attract birds.

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Cooling Wetlands

From: Science Update
Series: Science Update

Marshes could help cool off of increasingly hot summer conditions.

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Solar & Wind Power for the Sahara Desert

From: Science Update
Series: Science Update

Caption: Merzouga, Morocco Sahara desert camel trek, Credit: Evaldas Liutkus/Flickr/CCO

Solar and wind farms would provide abundant electricity to the Sahara desert, and result in increased rainfall and vegetation as well.

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Speed of Life

From: Science Update
Series: Science Update

The metaphor of the Tortoise and the Hare can be applied to the speed of life of animals of all sizes, according to new research.

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Queen Bees

From: Science Update
Series: Science Update

Caption: What sets a worker apart from a queen bee?, Credit: maggiedurch/Pixabay

The diet of baby bees activates genes that turn some into workers and others into queens.

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Ian Power: Rocking Climate Change

From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio

There is no silver bullet to solve the intractable problem of global warming. Nevertheless, there is a lot of vital and hopeful work being done to ...