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Batteries are a critical part of the transition away from fossil fuels. From electric vehicles to grid scale storage for wind and solar, demand for...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
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The climate crisis can feel distant — like it’s someone else’s problem — until your town is flooded, your home is damaged by storms, or you're stru...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Spokane Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 10
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What can we learn about human consciousness from the minds of animals?

  • Added: May 30, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
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When it comes to carbon dioxide, 2022 was a record year. So...what can be done? One potential method is called carbon capture and storage, a techno...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WNED Buffalo, and KUNM


  • Added: May 04, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
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According to the World Bank, land managed by Indigenous peoples is associated with lower rates of deforestation, reduced greenhouse gas emissions, ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Maine Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KGUA, WORT and more


  • Added: May 26, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
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According to the World Bank, land managed by Indigenous peoples is associated with lower rates of deforestation, reduced greenhouse gas emissions, ...

  • Added: May 26, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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A fundamental injustice of the climate crisis is that those who have contributed to it least are already bearing the brunt of the impacts, and that...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KCPW Salt Lake City, WDET Detroit Public Radio, Nevada Public Radio, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Apr 28, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 13
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A fundamental injustice of the climate crisis is that those who have contributed to it least are already bearing the brunt of the impacts, and that...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
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The COVID-19 shutdown has hit women and minorities hardest: four times as many women as men dropped out of the workforce in September 2020, with La...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
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Why does an invisible, life-threatening virus prompt a nationwide emergency, but invisible, life-threatening gases don’t? Experts have been emphasi...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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Why does an invisible, life-threatening virus prompt a nationwide emergency, but invisible, life-threatening gases don’t? Experts have been emphasi...

Bought by WUTC, WJCT, WAMU, Colorado Public Radio, 'The Sea' and more


  • Added: Mar 31, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 20
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Addressing the climate challenge requires incremental and transformational change on both personal and systemic levels. That means altering our per...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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Addressing the climate challenge requires incremental and transformational change on both personal and systemic levels. That means altering our per...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, WGCU, WDSE, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Mar 19, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
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Comet C/2018 M1 (Catalina) is eternal in the sense that it will likely wander the vast space between the stars in our Milky Way Galaxy until the e...

Bought by KGLP, KENW, WLPR , KKRN, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Astronomers have found the basic ingredients of life in an infant solar system.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, WOUB, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Should martian microbes be sacrificed to human space exploration.

Bought by Radio Newark, KMXT, WLPR , KENW, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Dec 01, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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The Rosetta spacecraft visited a comet and obtained interesting unique data and images.

Bought by WTIP, Radio Newark, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: Oct 20, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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Millions of children will never see the Milky Way or a meteor streaking across the night sky.

Bought by Radio Newark, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW and more


  • Added: Oct 20, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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Astronomers are finding thousands of planets orbiting distant stars. Your home the Earth is still the only one where you could live without a space...

Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Aug 05, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: http://www.arctic-council.org, Credit: The Arctic Council
In 1996, the high level intergovernmental Arctic Council was formed to promote cooperation and interaction among the Arctic states. In this episode...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 05:23
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Benny McLean has been working in the Florida citrus industry ever since he was 10 years old. Today he is production manager for Uncle Matt’s Organ...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
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Where does water come from? We know from science that water evaporates from the ocean reservoir, is captured in clouds, fog and rain, descends to s...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
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?Downy brome? and ?Mormon oats? are a few of its nicer names, but it?s hard to find a kind thing to say about cheatgrass, one of the West?s most tr...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2006
  • Length: 02:00
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Kiowa National Grassland is among the few places in the West with fewer traces of humanity now than it had a hundred years ago. A brief guide.

  • Added: Dec 14, 2005
  • Length: 02:00