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2024-01-12 Pairing Scientists with Community Advocates
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The climate crisis can feel distant — like it’s someone else’s problem — until your town is flooded, your home is damaged by storms, or you're stru...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Spokane Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 10
The Promise and Peril of Geoengineering
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Image of Arctic Ice, Credit: Pink floyd88 a, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
In recent years, scientists have begun testing geoengineering technologies to slow down or even stop global warming. But, is geoengineering safe? A...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
episode 3: glacier walkers
From: Theresa Soley
Series: Ice and Fire
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We hear from Judy Ramos in Lingít Aaní. She tells us about the history of glacier travel in the region, and about the Spirit of the Glacier.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 24:28
episode 2: ablation stake
From: Theresa Soley
Series: Ice and Fire
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Theresa reports from atop the Kennicott Glacier in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park with Dr. Eric Petersen and his field team.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 17:09
2022-05-27 Indigenous Insights on Healing Land and Sky
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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According to the World Bank, land managed by Indigenous peoples is associated with lower rates of deforestation, reduced greenhouse gas emissions, ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Maine Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KGUA, WORT and more


  • Added: May 26, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
20220527: Indigenous Insights on Healing Land and Sky, 5/27/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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According to the World Bank, land managed by Indigenous peoples is associated with lower rates of deforestation, reduced greenhouse gas emissions, ...

  • Added: May 26, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Vultures and Cranes
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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When I was a boy vultures were called buzzards. It’s an interesting common name that came across the ocean with early British colonists who had no ...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 04:03
Pathways of Exposure: The legacy of uranium mining within the Navajo Nation
From: KZMU Moab Community Radio
Series: Science Moab
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The Colorado Plateau has a long history of uranium mining. That history is especially apparent within the Navajo Nation, which has hundreds of aban...

Bought by KDXI - Radio St George and KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: May 25, 2020
  • Length: 28:16
  • Purchases: 2
The Refuge | Episode 3 | Do It In a Good Way
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: Sarah James on her four-wheeler in Arctic Village, Alaska, Credit: Amy Martin
The Refuge takes a deep dive into the controversy over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, with a particular focus on potentia...

Bought by KSKQ, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Wyoming Public Radio, Prairie Public, WITF and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2020
  • Length: 58:31
  • Purchases: 7
JoRee LaFrance
From: KXCI
Series: Thesis Thursday
Caption: Picture 3: Photo taken during the parade at my tribe's annual celebration, Crow Fair, in 2019. (PC: Tony Manolis Photography).
My Apsáalooke name is Iichiinmaaáatchilash - Fortunate with Horses and my English name is JoRee LaFrance. I come from the Apsáalooke (Crow) nation ...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2020
  • Length: 04:39
Ways of Knowing: Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science
From: KZMU Moab Community Radio
Series: Science Moab
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Traditional ecological knowledge(s) are knowledge systems held by Indigenous peoples. They are long-held sets of knowledge and awarenesses about th...

Bought by KDXI - Radio St George


  • Added: Jan 10, 2020
  • Length: 28:37
  • Purchases: 1
The Refuge | Preview
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
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The Refuge takes a deep dive into the controversy over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, with a particular focus on potentia...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 30, 2019
  • Length: 01:56
  • Purchases: 1
AMOS 18.187: How Big Was the Founding Population of Native Americans?, 9/18/2018
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
How Big Was the Founding Population of Native Americans?

  • Added: Aug 08, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
310-Ethics and Mars
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Should martian microbes be sacrificed to human space exploration.

Bought by Radio Newark, KMXT, WLPR , KENW, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Dec 01, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Galapagos Islands
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: The iconic blue footted booby, Credit: Rod Mast | Marine Photobank
W2O Director Peter Neill recently spent time in the Galãpagos Islands and is back to share his observations from a long-anticipated trip to the UNE...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2016
  • Length: 05:14
A New Arctic
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Declining Arctic sea ice is one factor affecting the region's changing ocean ecosystem. This image based on data from NASA's Aqua satellite shows the extent of sea ice in March 2008. , Credit: NASA
The conversation continues this week about the future of the Arctic. In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill addresses a question he ...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2015
  • Length: 05:18
THERE ONCE WAS AN ISLAND -- Filmmaker Briar March
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Briar March, San Francisco, CA 3/9/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Briar March talks climate change, human nature, and cultural survival.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 20:26
Climate Change and Tribal Concerns: Part II
From: WTIP
Series: Dr. Seth Moore - Grand Portage Tribal Wildlife Biologist
Caption: Great Lakes Basin, Credit: NASA
Seventh Generation planning: preparing for the effects of climate change on Native American tribes. This is the second in two part discussion on cl...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, and Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Oct 11, 2011
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 3
Climate Change and Tribal Concerns: Part I
From: WTIP
Series: Dr. Seth Moore - Grand Portage Tribal Wildlife Biologist
Caption: Earth , Credit: Photo from NASA via Wikimedia Commons
Preparing for the effects of climate change on Native American tribes. This is the first in two part discussion on climate change with wildlife bi...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, WDSE, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KSRQ, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 11, 2011
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 6
Earth Notes - Modern Hogans
From: KNAU
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On the Navajo Nation, modern technology and ancient building designs have combined to create homes for a new century.

  • Added: Dec 07, 2005
  • Length: 02:00
Salmonlands
From: Barbara Bernstein
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Salmonlands is a journey into the land of salmon, why they are so significant to the culture and community of the Pacific Northwest, and what it wi...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KXOT Public Radio, KALW, KRCB 104.9, and KSUT


  • Added: Jul 20, 2005
  • Length: 52:41
  • Purchases: 5