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AMOS 24-57: Ice Age Plant Survives Big Chill, 3/20/2024
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Ice Age Plant Survives Big Chill

  • Added: Mar 04, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
Oppenheimer’s omission and other secrets of the Atomic Age
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Caption: Paul Pino of Carrizozo, New Mexico., Credit: Nate Hegyi
From NHPR's Outside/In comes two stories that shed light on unseen consequences of America's nuclear ambitions.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Vermont Public, and Valley Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 01, 2023
  • Length: 56:30
  • Purchases: 4
Attack of the Zombie Crabs (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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There’s a parasite inhabiting the bodies of crabs, and making them infertile.

Bought by KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Apr 15, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
Attack of the Zombie Crabs (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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There’s a parasite inhabiting the bodies of crabs, and making them infertile.

Bought by KXCV, KEDT, WMUU-LP, WNED Buffalo, WRGY and more


  • Added: Apr 15, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
Attack of the Zombie Crabs (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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There’s a parasite inhabiting the bodies of crabs, and making them infertile.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KMUN, WFHB, WJCT, WYAP and more


  • Added: Apr 15, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Attack of the Zombie Crabs (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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There’s a parasite inhabiting the bodies of crabs, and making them infertile.

Bought by KXCV, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Apr 15, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
Cycle of Life (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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As more cities close down streets to traffic, new riders are hopping on bikes every day.

Bought by WCNY, KAZU Seaside, Calif., 'The Sea', WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Jun 11, 2020
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 14
Cycle of Life (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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As more cities close down streets to traffic, new riders are hopping on bikes every day.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WSGE, RadioFreePalmer, KRDP, WJCT and more


  • Added: Jun 11, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10
Cycle of Life (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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As more cities close down streets to traffic, new riders are hopping on bikes every day.

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WSGE, WNED Buffalo, KXCV, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Jun 11, 2020
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 6
Early Spring
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
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Spring is arriving early to North American wildlife refuges because of climate change.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, Spokane Public Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Dispossessed, Part 2; Red Wolves of the Alligator River Chapter 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Red wolf howling.
Red wolves used to roam free across most of the eastern United States, from Maine to Florida, from Missouri to Texas, one of the top dogs in the fo...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2018
  • Length: 24:08
Small Town Archaeology
From: Science Update
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A town square offers a trove of archaeological discoveries.

  • Added: Jun 30, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
AMOS 17.133: Our Earliest Ancestor, 7/5/2017
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Our Earliest Ancestor

  • Added: May 12, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 17.078: When Continents Collide, 4/19/2017
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
When Continents Collide

  • Added: Feb 06, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
Oil Boom Earthquakes
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
Caption: Huntington Beach, 1926, Credit: Photo Courtesy of the Orange County Archives Barbara K. Milkovich Collection CC BY 2.0, via flickr
Did early 20th century oil wells in southern California trigger major earthquakes?

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, KSFR, KENW and more


  • Added: Nov 05, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 7
Lauret Savoy - Trace, Memory, History, Race and the American Landscape
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
Caption: Lauret Savoy
WV talks with environmental earth scientist and writer Lauret Savoy about her stunning new book, TRACE. In it, Savoy examines how the country’s sti...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
Behaving Against Our Interests: Paul Ehrlich #110
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Today it could be argued that human beings daily act against our own self-interests. How? Biologist Paul Ehrlich and fellow scientists tell us we a...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Bandon Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KRZA, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 6
Wake up and Smell the Story: Sniffing out Health and Sickness
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Illustration of a nose., Credit: Wikimedia Commons
If you asked people which of their senses they most feared losing, they'd probably say sight or hearing. But what about the ability to smell? We ex...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Sep 25, 2014
  • Length: 43:58
  • Purchases: 1
The River in the Atlantic Ocean
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The Gulf Stream was essential to the early exploration of the New World and continues to influence our climate, weather, environment, and shipping ...

Bought by WJCT, XRAY.fm, KVSC, WEZU, WLIW and more


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Let There Be Night (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Eight out of 10 children born in America today will never know a night sky dark enough to see the Milky Way. Are we experiencing the end of night?

Bought by WCNY and KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Oct 07, 2013
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 2
The Roots of a Crisis
From: Chrys Bocast
Series: Aquaculture and You
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Fish, Aquaculture, and the Industrial Revolution

  • Added: Jun 13, 2012
  • Length: 20:20
Wolves Return to Eastern Germany
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Who's afraid of the big, bad wolf? Certainly not wildlife lovers in eastern Germany...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
Saving the Salton Sea
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Have you ever wondered where migratory birds get all the energy for such long, grueling flights? Well, there are pit stops along the way, like the ...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Climate Change Threatens Siberian Permafrost
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The Siberian permafrost - a sub-Arctic peat bog about the size of France and Germany - is chock full of carbon that's trapped in its frozen soils. ...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Dec 17, 2006
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1