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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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Was This Year’s COP Half Full or Half Empty? That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KRZA, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Dec 17, 2023
  • Length: 06:15
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Jason F. McLennan, Credit: Alex Akamine Photography
What would it feel like to live in a world where our built environment was as elegant as nature's designs? What if our living and working spaces nu...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
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The Looming Threat of “Phosphogeddon.” That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KRZA, KGNU Community Radio, KMXT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Mar 19, 2023
  • Length: 06:08
  • Purchases: 6
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When most of us think about using nature to remove carbon dioxide from the air, we think of trees. Yet blue carbon, a new name for storing carbon ...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KGUA, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 26, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 10
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When most of us think about using nature to remove carbon dioxide from the air, we think of trees. . Yet blue carbon, a new name for storing carbon...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
Caption: Neel Dhanesha
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...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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Corporate pledges of reaching net zero carbon emissions have quickly become commonplace. Critics argue that such pledges are mere greenwashing, and...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jan 20, 2022
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 9
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Corporate pledges of reaching net zero carbon emissions have quickly become commonplace. Critics argue that such pledges are mere greenwashing, and...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2022
  • Length: 58:55
Caption: Daniel Oberhaus
New iterations of the smartphone often focus on bells, whistles and other fancy features, when what we all really want for our devices are batterie...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jan 04, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Did you know that industries use a variety of tactics to manipulate public opinion about products that can harm our health and environment? Join Fo...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Dec 30, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Romain Trouble
The next time you sip on a drink from a straw, you may want to think twice because humans are producing an inordinate amount of plastic waste on st...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Alex Gilbert
All eyes have been on the Lone Star State recently, watching the grim and undeniable impact of climate change on a population completely unprepared...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
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Look around you, wherever you are, and I’d be willing to bet that all the human-made things within your view are there because of a truck, to say n...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2020
  • Length: 33:29
Caption: Sammy Roth
If you follow tech news, it’s pretty hard to miss stories reminding us of the tremendous potential that lithium-ion batteries have in store for the...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 12, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Produce, consume, discard; we all know the routine. Raw materials are extracted, produced into goods, and used -- sometimes only once -- before tur...

Bought by WJCT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KWIT, WCQS, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Jun 20, 2019
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Atomo Coffee
Many people around the world wouldn’t dream of starting their day without their coffee ritual. And they tend to be pretty particular about it — wha...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Jane Goodall
World-renowned primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall talks about her life’s work, the link between deforestation and climate change and wh...

Bought by KQUA, KPIP-LP, RadioFreePalmer, KWIT, NPR Now and more


  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Jack Ewing
When a West Virginia University research team won a grant in 2012 to run some tests on diesel cars, they could not have imagined that their relativ...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 14, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ice breaks away from a frozen coastline near the Norwegian Arctic town of Longyearbyen April 23, 2007 , Credit: REUTERS/Francois Lenoir
Arctic ice is melting at record levels, revealing an ocean open and vulnerable to enterprise and extraction. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, ...

  • Added: May 01, 2017
  • Length: 05:07
Caption: Larry Goulder, Tony Juniper, Greg Dalton, Credit: Sonya Abrams
It’s hard to put a price on something that’s always been free, but if Mother Nature were a corporation, she’d be a large-cap stock. Think about it ...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
Caption: Paul Salaman
There’s more than one way to support ecological conservation. Today on Sea Change Radio we talk with two individuals working on different fronts fo...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 04, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: David Abel
Since 1992, fish’n’chips fans may have noticed that there was no cod in their classic fried dish. That’s the year that the Canadian government issu...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 28:20
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Ole Kaven
Apparently things are moving and shaking in Oklahoma, literally. In the past 8 years earthquakes in the “Sooner State” have increased from 2 a year...

Bought by WMUU-LP and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: May 11, 2016
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Ken Geiser
When you see an ad sponsored by the chemical industry espousing the wonders of chemicals, you probably roll your eyes like most of us. But how much...

Bought by WMUU-LP, Yellowstone Public Radio, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 11, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3