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Sound Ecology: Native Bees
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An audio postcard highlighting native bees -- including nuances of their behavior, life history and ecological importance.

  • Added: Feb 06, 2024
  • Length: 01:28
episode 6: glacier thread
From: Theresa Soley
Series: Ice and Fire
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In the last full episode of the season, we travel to the Greenland ice sheet and hear from a researcher who collects data at the face of tidewater ...

  • Added: Jul 12, 2023
  • Length: 23:22
Sound Ecology: 'Akiapōlā'au
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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The 'Akiapōlā'au is one of Hawaii's rare and endangered birds, living exclusively on the Big Island.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
SEA OF SHADOWS -- Richard Ladkani, Jack Hutton, Cynthia Smith, and Andrea Crota Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Jack Hutton, Richard Ladkani, Cynthia Smith and Andrea Crota, Credit: Andrea Chase
Richard Ladkani, Jack Hutton, Cynthia Smith, and Andrea Crota talk symbols, hope, and the definition of extremist.

  • Added: Jul 27, 2019
  • Length: 23:03
Sea of Stars
From: Tanner Robbins
Caption: Common Fangtooth (Anoplogaster cornuta), Credit: Paul Caiger
Tanner Robbins reports on the Ocean Twilight Zone and the scientists studying it.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 28, 2018
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 2
Sound Ecology: Raptors
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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What is a raptor? Naturalist Ken Burton offers up some details on these amazing birds, including addressing the concept of convergent evolution.

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: Feb 28, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Sound Ecology: Harbor Seals
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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Remarkable facts about the ubiquitous resident of our coastal regions, the harbor seal.

Bought by Radio Newark and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Feb 07, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Sound Ecology: Snowy Plovers
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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On this segment of Sound Ecology, Ornithologist Mark Colwell features one of our dynamic coastal residents, the western snowy plover.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, KFOI Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 04, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 4
Sound Ecology: Arcata Marsh
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An audio postcard highlighting the city of Arcata's Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary that also functions as an innovative wastewater treatment facility.

Bought by KZYX, WNED Buffalo, and Radio Newark


  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 3
Sound Ecology: Warblers
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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This segment of Sound Ecology highlights the springtime arrival of orange-crowned and wilson's warblers in northwestern California. For air during ...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 01:58
  • Purchases: 3
Climate change threatens birds migrating along Great Lakes
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Andrea Patterson inspects a common yellowthroat in order to determine its age and sex during the banding process., Credit: Veronica Volk
Some of the migratory songbirds that pass through the Great Lakes region are already on the move, but their migratory patterns are shifting due to ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCMU Michigan, WCPN, WRVO Public Media, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2016
  • Length: 03:38
  • Purchases: 6
Sound Ecology: American Dipper
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An audio postcard about the American Dipper, highlighting some behavioral and physiological aspects of this ubiquitous songbird along rivers and st...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, KRZA, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 01:27
  • Purchases: 4
The hidden afterlife of a sperm whale skeleton
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: A dead sperm whale in Pacifica's Mori Point, Credit: Hannah Kingsley-Ma
Back in April, a 48 foot-long sperm whale was found on a beach in Pacifica called Mori Point. A lot of people had gathered around the whale to bear...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Sep 18, 2015
  • Length: 08:29
  • Purchases: 1
The Mikie Show #69 Vicki
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Episode sixty-nine has arrived in a totally cybernetic way! Join us as we speak with Vicki Brown, a Ph.D. in Research Methodology and a rockin’ vio...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2014
  • Length: 28:02
Narhwals: Everyone Loves a Whale With a Horn
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
Caption: Pod of Narwhals (monodon monoceros) near Petermann glacier., Credit: Jason Box / Greenpeace
Arctic Ocean dwellers, narwhals are both exotic and popular. Though as every celebrity knows, and JP Davidson confirmed, being popular, isn't the s...

Bought by PRX Remix and Radio Newark


  • Added: Jul 29, 2013
  • Length: 06:44
  • Purchases: 2
The Mikie Show #51, Margaret
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Join us as we speak with paleoecologist extraordinaire, Margaret B. Davis. She is one of the world’s foremost scholars of palynology, a branch of p...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2012
  • Length: 27:59
Show Me The Money: Volcano Edition
From: Terrascope Youth Radio
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Terrascope Youth Radio's Alexandros Zervos tests Eitan Stern-Robbins' knowledge of Super Volcanos.

  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 05:53
The Mikie Show #49, Sheril
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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If you click the little play arrow down there you’ll be able to join us as we speak with Sheril Kirshenbaum, author and science writer. Besides bei...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Feb 22, 2012
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 1
Spadefoot Desert Chorale
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
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Summer storms send many desert frogs and toads into a raucous reproductive frenzy. What role do their choruses play in their hasty courtship?

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Apr 07, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Alaska's Trumpets of Doom
From: John Ryan
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The science behind the songs of Alaska's humpback whales

  • Added: Feb 13, 2008
  • Length: 04:25
Quest_Sharks of the SF Bay
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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No great whites here, but the SF Bay is teeming with 5 species of sharks.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2007
  • Length: 05:47
Cleaning Up Washington DC's "other" river.
From: Next Generation Radio
Series: NPR's Next Generation Radio
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Cleaning up Washington D.C's "other" river.

  • Added: Apr 08, 2007
  • Length: 03:47
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