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Episode 2: Into the Field

From: David Levin
Series: Deep Soundings: Stories from the Ocean Floor

In this episode, go into the field with a team of scientists working to map the coastal seafloor in detail—and learn how their technologies could r...

Listening to the Arctic

From: Richard Paul

When you hear those statistics that tell you the oceans are warming and you wonder where those numbers come from, this is where: From scientists me...

Bought by KMXT, KFAI Minneapolis, KUOW, KUT, WAMU and more

Whatever Happened to the Ozone Hole?

From: Distillations
Series: Distillations

An environmental success story.

Bought by KRZA

Divers chronicle Great Lakes shipwreck that left 32 dead

From: Great Lakes Today

Caption: The Admiral shipwreck, Credit: Marc Duncan

There’s more than just fish and sand in the Great Lakes – there are thousands of ships, airplanes, and other vehicles under the water. A story on ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, WRVO Public Media, WCMU Michigan, WXXI Rochester and more

Sound Ecology: Aleutian Geese

From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology

This segment of Sound Ecology focuses on the recovery of the once-endangered Aleutian Geese that winter in northern California.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio

Climate change threatens birds migrating along Great Lakes

From: Great Lakes Today

Caption: Andrea Patterson inspects a common yellowthroat in order to determine its age and sex during the banding process., Credit: Veronica Volk

Some of the migratory songbirds that pass through the Great Lakes region are already on the move, but their migratory patterns are shifting due to ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCMU Michigan, WCPN, WRVO Public Media, North Country Public Radio and more

Great Lakes may hold clues to beginning of life on Earth

From: Great Lakes Today

Caption: Diver prepares to head into waters of Lake Huron, Credit: Ben Thorp

Scientists are trying to figure out how Earth developed an atmosphere rich in oxygen. The answer to this billion-year-old mystery may lie in an unl...

Bought by Delta College Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, Interlochen Public Radio, WCPN, North Country Public Radio and more

Ep.16: Mining the Ocean Floor & Is there Shark in your Face Cream?

From: Nikki Knight

The enormous implications of mining the floor of the deep sea. It's starting. It's calledr "squalene" and is in lots of beauty products. It's usual...

Inside a coal fired power plant

From: Reid Frazier

Caption: The Homer City Generating Station in Pennsylvania., Credit: Reid Frazier

How do you clean up 100,000 tons of air pollution? Boatloads of air filters, and some basic high school chemistry. This story takes the listener in...

Bought by WABE

700 Fathoms under the Sea

From: David Schulman

Caption: Scientists discovered the "sound channel" in 1944. Whales use it to communicate across oceans — and during the Cold War the Navy secretly used it to track nuclear subs. This 1948 graphic shows sound traveling on an axis 700 fathoms down in the Atlantic., Credit: Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel

Something unusual happens about a half mile under the sea. Ocean physics create a special zone where sound travels for hundreds, even thousands of ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, American Voices, Hark!, KFAI Minneapolis and more

Capturing Montana's Elk

From: University of Montana Journalism

Caption: FWP Wildlife Biologist Kelly Proffitt boards the helicopter during the February 2011 elk capture.

Instead of moving in typical migration patterns, elk herds are doing more hanging out on the floor of Montana's Bitterroot Valley. Scientists are t...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM and KBGA 89.9 FM

Searching for the Peregrine Falcon

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

Near dusk, you can often find Shirley Doell at Oakland Civic Center, staring at the tops of skyscrapers through her big telescope. But she isn’t sp...

Volunteers hunt for moose bones on Isle Royale (Part 2)

From: Michigan Radio
Series: Lessons from Isle Royale's Wolves & Moose

Caption: Moosewatch volunteer Dave Beck holds up a marked antler. Team leader Jeff Holden looks on. They mark the antlers and hang them in a tree so others know the antler has been found and documented., Credit: Mark Brush

Wolves and moose are at the heart of the world’s longest running study of a predator and its prey. The drama unfolds on Isle Royale National Park ...

Bought by Delta College Public Radio and WTIP

Watching the lives of wolves and moose unfold on Isle Royale (Part 1)

From: Michigan Radio

Caption: Rolf Peterson on Caribou Island, one of more than 450 smaller islands in the national park's archipelago., Credit: Mark Brush

Researchers have studied the wolves and moose on a remote island archipelago in Lake Superior for 54 years. These days, the wolves are in trouble.

Bought by Delta College Public Radio and WTIP

The Field Trip Podcast: Swimming with Submersibles

From: The Field Trip Podcast

This week, correspondent Teresa Chin takes us on a tour beneath the Monterey Bay to explore the sights and creatures of the deep. Cruise a shipwrec...

Bought by KUER

In a Gas Boom, Looking for Answers on Health Questions

From: Reid Frazier
Series: Breaking the Land: Marcellus Shale and the Gas Age

Caption: Amy Pare, a plastic surgeon in heavily-drilled Washington County, Pa. She's found arsenic, benzene, and other drilling-related contaminants in the urine of her patients., Credit: Photo: Reid R. Frazier

Thousands of wells have been drilled in the Marcellus shale, using new types of drilling methods. But there are questions about the safety of these...

Bought by Prairie Public

Whitebark Pine, Grizzlies, and an Ecosystem on the Brink

From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay

Caption: Yellowstone flyover 2, Credit: K. Gourlay

Whitebark pine trees, once a feature of the mountainous west, are under attack. Nearly two-thirds have died from beetle attacks and other causes, h...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Cave Conservation

From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay

Caption: Looking up and out of the mouth of Horse Cave, Kentucky, Credit: K. Gourlay

Caves may lie beneath our radar, but they play an important role in many Southeastern U.S. ecosystems. They filter water and shelter diverse wildli...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio

Wells to Wheels: Can shale gas power cars?

From: Reid Frazier
Series: Breaking the Land: Marcellus Shale and the Gas Age

Caption: Making way for the Marcellus, Credit: Reid R. Frazier/Allegheny Front

We use natural gas to heat our homes and generate our power. Can we use it to fuel our cars? Big Gas thinks shale gas is the key to cleaning up our...

#1: Boom Times For The Recycling Industry

From: KQED
Series: QUEST: Recycling in America

Here's one silver lining to a slow economy: High recycling rates. Americans are wasting far less, and recycling far more. Nowhere is the trend as s...

Bought by KZYX, WRVO Public Media, WTIP, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Engineers of the New Millennium: The Water Energy Crunch A Powerful Puzzle

From: Spectrum Radio

The Water-Energy Crunch is a clash of essential needs. Humans are thirsty creatures who need water to drink and bathe, but also to produce most for...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KUNM, 90.5 WESA and more