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Lucy
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Is autism a disability...or an evolutionary adaptation?

Bought by KFCF FM, KWMR, KMUN, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 25
Groundwater Pumping around Pahrump impacts Amargosa Canyon speckled dace
From: Brian Bahouth
Series: The Wild Hare
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Last week, the Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect three populations of speckled dace in the D...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2020
  • Length: 14:27
589-Defending Earth
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The International Asteroid Warning Network, or IWAN (Eye-Whan) for short has been established to link scientists who are discovering, monitoring, a...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW and more


  • Added: May 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Vaping: What You Don't Know Can Kill You - Hour Special
From: KRCB 104.9
Series: Vaping: What You Don't Know Can Kill You
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We investigate the dangers of vaping, while listening to the voices of high school administrators, health professionals and students. One thing is ...

Bought by KOSU, WHYY, Prairie Public, WXXI Rochester, WRVO Public Media and more


  • Added: Dec 03, 2019
  • Length: 01:05:51
  • Purchases: 12
565-Ancient Crater
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In ancient times, Aboriginal people in southwestern Australia quarried fine grained rock on an ancient hill called Barlangi Rock to make very sharp...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: Nov 22, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
71: Ants on Stilts
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Ants hunt for food, but how do they know how to get back? Content warning: Science is messy. Some ants were harmed and we talk about it. Not in gre...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2019
  • Length: 08:50
545-Celestial Congestion
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Imagine being under a clear natural night sky, with no moon, waiting to see stars down to the horizon, the Milky Way, star clusters, planets, the z...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: Jun 28, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Don’t Pull No Punches: Dahr Jamail on the End of Ice
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: "Ponds on the Ocean" - Sea ice atop the Arctic Ocean. NASA image acquired July 12, 2011
Dahr Jamail asks us to begin to grieve for the world that is surely lost and to find a way toward adaptive change so that something may be salvaged...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2019
  • Length: 59:09
35: Dr. Robert Liston
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Amy Barton has an eye for dangerous and innovative doctors and Dr. Robert Liston is no exception. FYI This episode has some up-close discussions of...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2019
  • Length: 03:09
John McClow — Water wrangling in the American West (Part two)
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes spoke with water law expert John McClow.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Dec 13, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
McPherson, Guy — How to Deal With Abrupt Climate Change
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious discusses abrupt climate change and how to deal with this dreadful concept. The guest is Guy McPherson, professor Emeritus of Natura...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
Big Hunger Big Chicken Big Moment
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Big Hunger by Andrew Fisher and Big Chicken by Maryn McKenna
Antibiotics in chicken getting away from us and hunger groups loving on corporations. Plus ending hunger by force of law.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Oct 07, 2017
  • Length: 57:57
  • Purchases: 2
Martin J. Blaser, M.D., author of "Missing Microbes"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Blaser, a microbiologist and physician, discusses how the overuse of antibiotics is fueling our modern plagues.

  • Added: Oct 20, 2015
  • Length: 29:30
High, Dry & Overwhelmed
From: H2O Radio
Series: Journalism About Water
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Water Well Contamination in Colorado. Homeowners Wonder if Fracking Is To Blame. (2-part story; 5-6 minutes each)

  • Added: Sep 02, 2014
  • Length: 11:16
"James Rollins discusses The 6th Extinction"
From: Steven Nester
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James Rolllins is the New York Times bestselling author of international thrillers that have been translated into more than forty languages. Known ...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 19:57
Fukushima: WTF?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The "F" Word
Caption: Laura Flanders of GRITtv
Why are so few people talking about the risky operation starting at the ruined Fukushima nuclear plant?

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Nov 17, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Man, Nature, and Climate Change with Elizabeth Kolbert
From: NPR Illinois
Series: Quiddity
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Features a discussion with The New Yorker's Elizabeth Kolbert about the impact of climate change on enviromental health, human health, and human ri...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 20:35
Military suicide rate at unprecedented high
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Dr. Timothy Lineberry, Mayo Clinic psychiatrist & suicide expert for the Army, spoke recently with WTIP's Bob Carter about the alarming increase in...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2012
  • Length: 17:07
Shark Fin Sales Change Kill Estimate
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Just about everybody’s seen Jaws, the hit movie about a monster shark that snacks on captains and coeds. But have you ever wondered how many sharks...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Jun 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Better Tuna Fishing Methods
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Can you imagine a world without tuna? No more, "Chicken of the Sea?" Believe it or not, most tuna species have been heavily fished, some almost to ...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Oct 26, 2011
  • Length: 01:31
  • Purchases: 1
Nature Deficit Disorder
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Remember the days when kids hiked into the woods? Caught tadpoles in a stream, and played tag on the playground? Well, those days are fading fast.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Apr 26, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Last Mosquito
From: Anton Foek
Caption: Mosquito Net
According to scientists from all over the world approximately 1 million people die of malaria every year. The world community spends billions of d...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 07:19
  • Purchases: 1
Bats in Peril: White-nose Syndrome
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: An infected little brown bat., Credit: Ryan von Linden/New York Department of Environmental Conservation
A fungal disease has been destroying bat colonies in the northeastern United States and is now spreading south and west across the country. What is...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Nov 05, 2010
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Reducing Exposure to Air Pollution
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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If you’re stuck in traffic, here’s something you might be interested in knowing. A University of Southern California research group reports that ne...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Oct 25, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Sex Changing Chemicals: Endocrine Distruption
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
We read that pollutants are causing a sex change in fish.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jun 18, 2010
  • Length: 01:13
  • Purchases: 1