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2024-05-10 Big Plastic: The New Big Oil
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Plastics are everywhere. And while we’ve known for a long time that plastics and our environment aren’t a good mix, it's becoming apparent that the...

Bought by WGCU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KOWS, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 4
240510: Big Plastic: The New Big Oil, 5/10/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Plastics are everywhere. And while we’ve known for a long time that plastics and our environment aren’t a good mix, it's becoming apparent that the...

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 58:56
052024: Water Treatment, 5/20/2024
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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This week on The Children’s Hour, how do cities and towns ensure the water coming out of our tap is clean, and where does it come from? Then, when ...

  • Added: May 08, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
Medical Cannabis -- Groks Science Show 2024-05-08
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Benjamin Caplan discussed his book, The Doctor-Approved Cannabis Handbook.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., RadioFreePalmer, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 08, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Bio-Regional Thinking and the Deep Sea
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Bio-regions on Earth are organized into types, then realms, and are further distinguished and mapped for planning, strategizing, developing, and as...

Bought by WETS


  • Added: May 08, 2024
  • Length: 05:13
  • Purchases: 1
Science unscripted (DW) 05/07/24 - Do you feel safe in your neighborhood?
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week we hear about what interventions might improve the perception of safety on residential streets. Also: a (relatively) new cognitive bias t...

  • Added: May 08, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
Quick Study: Data and the Arts
From: National Endowment for the Arts
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In this episode, we learn how leaders of a global network of arts and cultural districts regard their influence on community health and well-being.

  • Added: May 07, 2024
  • Length: 11:07
Climate Connections May 13 - June 7, 2024
From: ChavoBart Digital Media
Series: Climate Connections
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This month on Climate Connections how Miami-Dade County is protecting public housing residents from dangerous heat waves, man converts his home to ...

Bought by WFHB, KCNP, WLRN, KRSC, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: May 07, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 9
Nuts and Bolts
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Nuts and Bolts, Credit: Seth Shostak
How frequently do you think about fasteners like screws and bolts? Probably not very often. But some of them a storied history, dating back to Egyp...

Bought by KZUM, WRGY, WMUU-LP, KBBI Alaska, KMUN and more


  • Added: May 06, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 12
EU Energy and Climate Policy, Part 2
From: Casey Walker
Series: Energy Switch
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Dr. Carlos Batlle, Visiting Scientist at the MIT Energy Initiative, and Jonathan Elkind, Senior Research Scholar at Columbia's Center on Global Ene...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: May 06, 2024
  • Length: 25:00
  • Purchases: 1
Could we use a space umbrella to cool down the planet?
From: Possibly
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Literally blocking out the sun may sound extreme, but scientists are debating whether using dust particles to reflect sunlight away from the Earth ...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: May 03, 2024
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 1
AMOS 24-106: The Fate of New Zealand's Birds, 5/28/2024
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
The Fate of New Zealand's Birds

  • Added: May 03, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 24-104: Koalas Have Fingerprints, Too, 5/24/2024
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Koalas Have Fingerprints, Too

  • Added: May 03, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 24-102: Organ Failure, 5/22/2024
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Organ Failure

  • Added: May 03, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 24-101: Benjamin Franklin and the Swatches of Snow, 5/21/2024
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Benjamin Franklin and the Swatches of Snow

  • Added: May 03, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
Science unscripted (DW) 04/30/24 - How science can help you shoot free throws
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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Unhappy with your body? Deleting Instagram may help (if you're a woman). Also, forget 'cold tubs' if you want bigger muscles — and why do we consum...

Bought by Central Florida Public Media and WFHB


  • Added: May 03, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Should We Be Afraid of Gene-Editing?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Should we use CRISPR to protect children from disease?

Bought by KICI Iowa City, Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: May 02, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
2024-05-03 When California Dreams Hit Political Reality
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The Golden State has staked much of its reputation on its green credentials, with state leaders touting its role on the leading edge of global and...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KALW, KSQD Santa Cruz, KOWS and more


  • Added: May 02, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 10
240503: When California’s Climate Dreams Hit Political Reality, 5/3/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The Golden State has staked much of its reputation on its green credentials, with state leaders touting its role on the leading edge of global and...

  • Added: May 02, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
MN Reads: "The Breeding Birds of Minnesota" with Dr. Gerald Niemi
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Gerald Niemi talks about the new book "The Breeding Birds of Minnesota"

  • Added: May 02, 2024
  • Length: 07:39
Why are EVs more popular than hydrogen cars?
From: Laur Hesse Fisher
Series: TILclimate Podcast
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Just 20 years ago, hydrogen cars and battery electric cars (EVs) were pretty evenly matched as clean alternatives to gas-powered cars. But today, E...

  • Added: May 02, 2024
  • Length: 10:08
Secrets of Soil
From: Jim Metzner
Series: Pulse of the Planet
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Not only does soil support virtually every tree, plant and crop on earth, it can control toxic waste and help mitigate climate change.

  • Added: May 01, 2024
  • Length: 12:58
Memory in Trees
From: KZMU Moab Community Radio
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As photosynthesis happens, trees take in carbon from the atmosphere and store it in the form of sugars or carbohydrates. These sugars can be store...

  • Added: May 01, 2024
  • Length: 21:37
Regenerative Medicine -- Groks Science Show 2024-05-01
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Jeffrey Gross discussed regenerative medicine.

Bought by KDX Worldround Radio, RadioFreePalmer, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 01, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
260: Beaver Believers: How to Restore Planet Water, 5/8/2024
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Kate Lundquist and Brock Dolman
In this age of global weirding where climate disruption has tumbled the Goldilocks effect into unruly surges of too much and too little water, the ...

  • Added: May 01, 2024
  • Length: 28:30

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