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Facing the loss of her cabin in the Smokies, Lynn Faust began to pay more attention to the synchronous fireflies there, sparking a lifelong passion.

  • Added: Apr 11, 2024
  • Length: 52:49
Caption: Dylan Gaeta
California is famous for its picturesque sunsets, year-round mild weather, excellent surf, and largely progressive politics, including forward-thin...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
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How a stylish Parisienne came to be the owner of an elephant and rhino sanctuary in South Africa.

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 52:49
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HOUR ONE: "Does AI dream?" - Say you're an artist and you want to paint something you can't see. What if AI can? Are you dreaming together? HOUR ...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
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Raised in landlocked Soweto, South Africa, this Black woman's first ocean dive felt like coming home. She wants all to feel welcome beneath the waves.

  • Added: Mar 14, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
Caption: Rebecca Moore
New, democratized access to powerful analytical and mapping tools is transforming our understanding of the natural world – and with it, our ability...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
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A conservationist rescues an owl, who, five years later, still calls to and visits him in his backyard.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 1
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Is snorkeling just for a tropical vacation? Well, Keith Williams wants people to look into their local freshwater, literally look into that water w...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 1
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David Haskell is one of the world's most attentive listener's to nature. You'll want to hear what he's hearing, on our next episode.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Dec 15, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 3
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HOUR ONE: "Off The Map" - Remember what maps were like when you were a kid? Well, Google Maps now makes finding everything from an obscure coffees...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
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The island of Surtsey is a compelling example of the way that animals distribute nutrients around the globe through their poop.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Nov 16, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 1
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When gathering accurate descriptions of the world is crucial to your work, how do you navigate a reality full of hallucinations?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: David Ho
Carbon offsets are often touted as a solution to humanity’s bad habit of emitting an awful lot of CO2. But how many of us actually know what things...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Oct 28, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Argentina, Estonia, Thailand. A ballet career could land you on just about any world stage. International success catapulted Steven Melendez to all...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 52:54
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Uncover Secrets Beyond the Solar System , Credit: Deep Astronomy
It is the fourth of seven planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system, which is the most studied planetary system outside our own. Astronomers are intensely ...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2023
  • Length: 04:04
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
There’s no question that humanity is making fast progress in understanding, cataloging and classifying planets around other stars. So far we’ve fo...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 04:04
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Human beings have discovered over five thousand five hundred exoplanets. Over 80 percent of them have orbits shorter than 50 days which would place...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 04:37
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Astronomers have recently concluded an observation study of the closest exoplanet to Earth, Proxima Centauri b and found that the planet does not t...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 04:48
Caption: Ziv Aviram
Have you ever thought about what you'd do to save the planet if you were a billionaire? Well, this week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with billiona...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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In her late 20s, Erica Buist had never been invited or expected to be anywhere near a deceased human. Death had been cloistered away from her, or s...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Sep 07, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
One of the most exciting exoplanetary systems discovered so far, and one we’ve talked about many times on Exoplanet Radio, is TRAPPIST-1, a system ...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2023
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Today, we are going to visit TrES-2b, a planet that is so dark that it reflects less than one percent of the sunlight falling on it. How can a plan...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2023
  • Length: 04:00
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Most of the 5000 exoplanets discovered so far have been found using methods that don’t actually see the planet at all. Brightness dimmings and sta...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2023
  • Length: 03:52
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It's a massive lake with a murky reputation. It's survived a carp invasion, decades of dumped raw sewage, and the draining of surrounding wetlands....

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 52:53
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
We live in a golden age of exoplanet discovery. Not only are we searching for and finding new worlds around other stars all the time, but as our t...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 04:01