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Bill Shanabruch left his job as regional biologist for the Piedmont with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. It was over a boondoggl...
- Added: Apr 23, 2024
- Length: 26:08
As staggeringly complex as the environmental catastrophe is, by tackling one small space at a time, we might be able to bring back entire ecosystem...
- Added: Apr 16, 2024
- Length: 24:26
Researchers are investigating a method of creating power from fast moving streams in Nepal. Sometimes these micro-hydro minigrids work and sometime...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Jan 14, 2020
- Length: 16:08
- Purchases: 1
Manasseh Franklin wanted to make the melting of glaciers more real to people through her writing. So on an Alaskan rafting trip, she followed water...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Jun 17, 2019
- Length: 23:41
- Purchases: 1
Sergio Avila Villegas always loved big cats. But his faith in his scientific research was shaken when he discovered its true cost.
- Added: Mar 05, 2019
- Length: 15:33
- Purchases: 2
Red wolves used to roam free across most of the eastern United States, from Maine to Florida, from Missouri to Texas, one of the top dogs in the fo...
- Added: Jul 16, 2018
- Length: 24:08
Marcus Eriksen wanted to draw attention to a problem no one could see. So he sailed into the middle of it.
- Added: Mar 28, 2018
- Length: 27:59
- Purchases: 2
"Trash Bandits And Border Collies" and "The Ents Of Melbourne"
A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: Maggie had it all: a fine house,...
Bought by KSTK and Boise State Public Radio
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
The UnCommonCore Podcast explores the ideas, experiences and perspectives that make us all different. Content includes everything from live to tape...
- Added: Feb 03, 2018
- Length: 38:02
Science journalist Lynda Mapes takes us deep into a New England forest, where one tree is telling the story of climate change. This is the final ep...
- Added: Aug 04, 2017
- Length: 16:38
- Purchases: 2
A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: stories of animal encounters. A scientist risks his reputation to pursue Bigfoot; pigeons save t...
Bought by Raven Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., New Hampshire Public Radio, KUT, and XRAY.fm
- Added: Mar 09, 2017
- Length: 58:25
- Purchases: 5
When Ryan and Sinehan Lessard first started dating, they discovered they have something strange in common: after they die, they both want to “becom...
- Added: Jan 19, 2017
- Length: 31:12
If you’re even the least bit interested in solar power, you’ve probably come across an obscure, hard-to-parse, seemingly conflict-free term: net me...
Bought by WMMT
- Added: Jan 16, 2017
- Length: 39:36
- Purchases: 1
When Tony Bosco turned 30, he decided he wanted out of the rat race. So he went to his hometown in New Jersey, walked into the woods, and stayed th...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 09, 2016
- Length: 23:00
- Purchases: 1
It’s not surprising that many of the medicines we use today are derived from plants. The surprising part is how similar the molecular components of...
- Added: Oct 20, 2016
- Length: 35:36
For our 13th episode, we venture off the beaten path to hear about Bigfoot and the scientist who’s on a mission to find him.
- Added: Oct 19, 2016
- Length: 18:38
- Purchases: 2
There’s a very robust debate going on right now as to exactly how much sea level rise we’re in for, and the Cliffs Notes version is that it’s betwe...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 22:05
- Purchases: 1
The “Save the Whales” movement of the 1970’s was instrumental in putting a stop to commercial whaling. But even as humpbacks and other whale popula...
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 27:48
Biocontrol feels like the pinnacle of human arrogance. We’re trying to play God, taking a delicately balanced ecosystem and stomping all over it w...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 29:35
- Purchases: 1
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 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
Erin Jones thought the answers were written in stone. But a summer internship at a remote dinosaur quarry eroded her certainty.
- Added: Jan 21, 2016
- Length: 13:09
- Purchases: 3
Wyoming naturalist joins game herd, 'becomes' a mule deer
- Added: Aug 05, 2015
- Length: 21:04
This week, Field Trip Correspondent Lo Benichou take us behind the scenes at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, California, where wounded seals...
Bought by KUER
- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 13:09
- Purchases: 1
This week we go to to the beach with Field Trip Correspondent Laura Hautala and her Science Mom. Yes, we said Science Mom. And don’t worry, it’s no...
Bought by KUER
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 12:25
- Purchases: 1
