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How a group of volunteers helped create the Border Route Trail
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: 1971 Rovers on Rose Lake Overlook
Minnesota is known for its 10,000 lakes and maybe more specifically, for its canoe culture through the pristine lakes of the Boundary Waters. Over ...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
Constant Wonder - Sprouting a Seed That Survived the Roman Siege
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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When Romans put down a Judean rebellion in 73 AD, they also extinguished the Judean date palm. Two thousand years later, an unlikely pair of scient...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 2
Constant Wonder - Summer Shorts: Adventure Stories
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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We've mined our archives for breathtaking adventure stores.

Bought by WVTF, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Aug 01, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 3
Global Pandemic, Climate Change, Virtual Tourism: Twenty Twenty novel predictions in 1995
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Twenty Twenty Book cover
In 1995, the late author Nigel Watts published his highly acclaimed fictional book, Twenty Twenty, that foretold the events the world is experienci...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2020
  • Length: 35:59
Shaky Ground: Consider Geology
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Shaky Ground
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Wherever vacation time takes us, Dr. Lori Dengler encourages researching and exploring regional geology.

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: Mar 21, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Flight Anxiety (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Summer travel is in full swing, which means many of us will be headed to the airport in the coming weeks. While most people do know that flying is ...

Bought by KENW, WABE, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 04, 2016
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 3
Virginia's Restless Archipelago, Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Hogg Island moorings., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Virginia’s Barrier Islands, and the waters and salt marshes that surround them, are among the most pristine coastal regions on the entire Eastern S...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2016
  • Length: 25:17
Virginia’s Restless Archipelego Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Barry Truitt at the helm., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Virginia’s Barrier Islands and the waters and salt marshes that surround them represent the most pristine coastal region on the Eastern Seaboard. U...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2016
  • Length: 27:59
Attack Squirrels, Zombies and a Park Ranger
From: Bryan Orr
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A sound rich narrative interview with former Washington state park ranger and storyteller Jody Maberry

  • Added: Aug 07, 2015
  • Length: 17:53
Virginia’s Restless Archipelago Part 3
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Colony of American oyster catchers on a lesser Barrier Island., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Oyster Virginia is an old fishing village on the seaside of the Easter Shore. On the road in there are old dead rises, some half submerged in the s...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2015
  • Length: 26:36
Scientists Work to Protect Region's Last Coastal Wilderness
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Virginia's barrier islands shelter more than 250 species of raptors, songbirds and shorebirds., Credit: Lindsay Renick Mayer
Efforts are underway to restore the fragile ecosystem of the shifting, changing land masses known as Virginia's barrier islands.

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Feb 27, 2014
  • Length: 06:13
  • Purchases: 1
The Field Trip Podcast: Human-Powered Ferris Wheels
From: The Field Trip Podcast
Caption: Field Trip Podcast icon, Credit: Mike Smith
This week Field Trip Correspondent Becky Palmstrom takes us to a festival in Taung Byone, Myanmar, where we learn how to run a ferris wheel … using...

Bought by KUER and KMXT


  • Added: Oct 26, 2012
  • Length: 10:28
  • Purchases: 2
In Off-Season Tulum, More Turtles Than Tourists
From: Valerie Hamilton
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If the Caribbean’s balmy turquoise charms are doubled by wintry weather at home, the argument could be made they’re halved in close succession to a...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 24, 2012
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 2
Bosque del Apache
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: A sandhill crane flies over Bosque del Apache., Credit: Megan Wilde
Every winter, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico hosts a spectacular congregation of snow geese and sandhill cranes. Why do t...

Bought by KUPR low power FM and KENW


  • Added: Jan 26, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
CalEarth
From: Eric Molinsky
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Meet the house that beats an earthquake, stays cool without air conditioning, doesn't harm a single tree and costs less than a used car.

Bought by WMPG, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, PRX Remix, American Voices, PRX to iTunes and more


  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 08:42
  • Purchases: 7
Catching the Wave: The West Coast/Alaska Tsunami Warning Center
From: Rebecca Sheir
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A visit to one of America's two tsunami warning centers... and a lesson that just might save your life.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 17, 2008
  • Length: 04:27
  • Purchases: 1
A Central Park Birder Experiences the Nebraska Crane Migration
From: Deborah Van Fleet
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A woman who usually does her "birding" in New York City's Central Park shares some of her reactions after experiencing the Sandhill Crane migration...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2007
  • Length: 02:51
Smart Parking
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
Car parking gets a high-tech make-over

  • Added: Mar 22, 2007
  • Length: 06:02
March of the Salamanders
From: Adam Allington
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Every year the first spring rains rouse hibernating amphibians from their winter torpor. In Amherst, MA this time is punctuated by the annual Sala...

Bought by WABE, PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes, KUOW, and The Nature Podcast


  • Added: Apr 11, 2005
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 5