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Invasion of the Lionfish Snatchers
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Erika Angle
Perhaps it’s cold comfort but it turns out that we human beings are not the only species on earth hell-bent on destroying our own habitat. We share...

Bought by WMUU-LP and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 18, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 2
High & Dry: Talking Groundwater
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rosemarie and William Alley
With drought-stricken California enjoying its wettest winter in decades, it can be easy to forget that water scarcity is among the globe's most dea...

Bought by WMUU-LP, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Mar 14, 2017
  • Length: 29:20
  • Purchases: 3
Lead-Headed Hunting Laws
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Kelly Sorenson
On his first day on the job, newly appointed Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zinke, rode to work on a horse. This was obviously a rugged, outdoor e...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 07, 2017
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Carolyn Lochhead on the Politics of Water
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Carolyn Lochhead
An issue that didn’t come up in Monday’s presidential debate, and unfortunately may not show up in subsequent debates either, is, “What are the can...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and KRZA


  • Added: Sep 28, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Agreeable Agriculture With Eric Toensmeier
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Eric Toensmeier
Can simply changing how and what we grow really make a difference to a changing climate? This week’s guest on Sea Change Radio, author and agricult...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 13, 2016
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 1
Cod Willing: David Abel on the Cod's Resurgence
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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
Geological Mapping
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique, we visit with Dr. Dean Peterson, Director of the Precambrian Research Center and the University of Minnesota Du...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 28:12
  • Purchases: 1
Daniel Kirk-Davidoff: Electric Grids of Tomorrow
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Daniel Kirk-Davidoff
This week on Sea Change Radio, host Alex Wise chats with Daniel Kirk-Davidoff, a climate scientist at the University of Maryland and at MDA Informa...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 12, 2016
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 2
Geophysicist Ole Kaven on Man-Made Earthquakes
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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
MIT Team Turning Fumes Into Fuel
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Gregory Stephanopoulos
You know that sick feeling when you look at a smokestack belching noxious gases into the air? Well, what if you knew that the gas waste coming from...

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


  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 4
Desalination: Is It Time To Drink The Pacific?
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Sammy Roth
Transforming ocean water into potable drinking water seems so remarkably cool on so many levels. But alas, desalination remains both expensive and ...

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


  • Added: Mar 16, 2016
  • Length: 27:00
  • Purchases: 3
Salt Of The Earth: Farm Zero’s Mike Fawcett
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Mike Fawcett
Farm Zero is a five year-old startup company that’s a concept for sustainable agricultural systems that use sea water rather than fresh water as th...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 10, 2016
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 2
L'accord de Paris -- Groks Science Show 2016-01-13
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
David Victor discusses the Paris climate agreement.

Bought by WMUU-LP and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 14, 2016
  • Length: 24:11
  • Purchases: 2
Richard Lunt: Transparent Solar Cells (re-broadcast)
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Richard Lunt
Imagine a world where every window-laden skyscraper generates its own solar power, where the skylights in your ceiling are a source of light and el...

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


  • Added: Dec 29, 2015
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Measuring Methane
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Lisa Song
When we think of the potential dangers of fracking for natural gas, what may come to mind is the dramatic image of flaming tap-water. But the prosp...

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


  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Grey Lady and The EPA
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Joe Romm
For the better part of the past decade, The New York Times and The Environmental Protection Agency have been frequent punching bags of the right wi...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Daniel Kammen: Electricity For All, Part I
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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How easy it is to take our electrified world for granted. Right now about 1.2 billion people or about 20% of the global population live without acc...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 22, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Andrew Revkin: Carbon Divide
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Andrew Revkin
This week on Sea Change Radio we hear from noted environmental journalist, Andrew Revkin, about a recent Yale/Utah State survey and mapping project...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 14, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Solazyme Co-Founder Harrison Dillon
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Harrison Dillon
What's it like to see an idea grow into something bigger than you ever imagined? This week on Sea Change Radio, host Alex Wise sits down with entre...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 24, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Greenpeace’s Rolf Skar On Big Paper
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rolf Skar
Money doesn’t grow on trees, but if you’re a paper company, trees are definitely how you make your money. Paper production is one of the leading ca...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
Troubled Coastlines From Louisiana To Maine, Pt. II
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Bob Marshall
Last week on Sea Change Radio, we spoke with Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Bob Marshall about Louisiana’s shrinking coastline. And this week we...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
Sea Rise Drowning Alaskan Village
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Kate Sheppard
We have heard the warnings for years now: climate change will someday force people to move from their homes. Sea level rise will put places from Mi...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
Farmsters + Citizen Science
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Lauren Markham
Getting back to the roots. What does it really mean? This week on Sea Change Radio, we feature two women who have each recently penned pieces for O...

Bought by WMUU-LP and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 16, 2014
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
Earthquakes: Why and When
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious discusses earthquakes with John Dvorak, Ph.D., a geophysicist and author of “Earthquake Storms:  The Fascinating History and Volatile...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2014
  • Length: 29:01
The Oregon Caves
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Roger Brandt, the manager of visitor services and education at the Oregon Caves National Monument, one of the few marble ...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 29:01