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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
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 19
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
Caption: Crawford Lake, Credit: David Kattenburg
After years of study, a scientific panel proposes a formal definition of the Anthropocene, naming the spot where humanity’s fingerprints are best o...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2023
  • Length: 58:05
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
‹ GROWING NATIVE WITH PETEY MESQUITEY Joyous Monsoon Symphony
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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I hope we all get all of our monsoon fixes this season. One of those for me and maybe you too will be toads calling from puddles.

  • Added: Jul 19, 2022
  • Length: 04:01
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
A Pigeon and a Pine
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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The scientific name of the band-tailed pigeon is no longer Columba fasciata, but is Patagioenas fasciata. That’s too bad because I was hoping to st...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2021
  • Length: 04:59
Race and COVID
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Race and Covid
While citizens take to the streets to protest racist violence, the pandemic has its own brutal inequities. Black, Latino, and Native American peopl...

Bought by KWMR, CHSR-FM 97.9, KMUN, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 08, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
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
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
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
Borderland Pollinator Plants
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Chuparosa is one my of favorite plants from back when we used to live outside of Tucson. I bet we had 5 or 6 of them planted at our little homestea...

  • Added: May 02, 2018
  • Length: 05:23
Healing Trauma
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Whether it's soldiers returning from war or youngsters recovering from mass shootings, or any other kinds of sudden or on-going trauma, the need fo...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM


  • Added: Mar 28, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Fall Asteraceae Festivals
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Fall is just a blast with all the late season blooming plants, so maybe instead of a festival for all the different species, we could consolidate a...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2016
  • Length: 05:01
Native Grasses In The Hills
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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I am not that great at identifying native grasses, but I keep on trying . Thank goodness some are really quite easy to ID and that makes me feel so...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2016
  • Length: 05:19
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
Let's Make Up: Out of Body Experience
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: John Adams presented to King George III, in 1785, as first American ambassador to the English court. Wood engraving, 19th century., Credit: The Granger Collection, New York.
From BackStory's episode on reconciliation in American history. Anthropologist Orin Starn tells us about the the battle between the Smithsonian and...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: Nov 11, 2014
  • Length: 10:14
  • Purchases: 1
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