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Leslie Canyon
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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One of the positive sides of isolating and staying very close to home during the pandemic is that we discovered new places and rediscovered old hau...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 05:07
Water is rising all around us. What should we do?
From: Possibly
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Our oceans are rising and taking over more land every year. Most governments try to fix this by blocking the water out and sealing the humans in. B...

Bought by KMXT and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 07, 2022
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 2
Blue Dot - FIRE AS A FRIEND RATHER THAN FOE: Cultural Burning with Pyrogeographer Don Hankins
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
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Dave welcomes back California State University at Chico Pyrogeographer Don Hankins. They talk about Don's background as a member of the plains Miwo...

Bought by KSPB Pebble Beach


  • Added: Jan 27, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Interacting with a cultural landscape
From: KZMU Moab Community Radio
Series: Science Moab
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The Bears Ears region is a place held sacred to Native people across the Colorado Plateau. It’s also a place that has a complicated history with We...

Bought by KDXI - Radio St George


  • Added: Apr 28, 2021
  • Length: 17:11
  • Purchases: 1
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
Verbena neomexicana
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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I’m telling you, late summer and fall are great times to get out into the hills, especially if you want to find interesting plants. While you’re ou...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2019
  • Length: 05:02
Purshia Mexicana
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Cliffrose is the star of this show. It also goes by the common name quinine bush or the scientific name of Purshia mexicana. If you look at a map o...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2019
  • Length: 10:12
Roadside Jungles
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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You know you haven’t been hiking or botanizing out in the desert or grassland enough when you look to the roadsides for interesting plants, but I’l...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2019
  • Length: 05:13
Listening to the Arctic
From: Richard Paul
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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


  • Added: Jun 20, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
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
Interacting with the land: historic and current land uses in the Southwest
From: KZMU Moab Community Radio
Series: Science Moab
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Humans have been using and modifying the ecosystems around on the Colorado Plateau for thousands of years. To understand human relationships with t...

Bought by KDXI - Radio St George


  • Added: May 20, 2018
  • Length: 30:23
  • Purchases: 1
The Autumnal Borderlands
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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I was incorrect about the species of Acalypha in this show. The correct name is A. phleoides (the former A. lindheimeri), not neomexicana as I stat...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2017
  • Length: 05:16
A Mesquitey Christmas Tradition
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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I don’t think there is anything more heartbreaking than seeing a road killed pet. Well, honestly, I have a hard enough time with road killed wildli...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2017
  • Length: 05:28
White Nosed Coati
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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We have had 4-wheel drive vehicles for many years and we’ve always found it to be a great tool that can take the worry out of some roads. I just ha...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2017
  • Length: 05:16
S2 Ep. 6 Creation
From: Honolulu Civil Beat
Series: Offshore
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In the final episode of Season Two, Offshore goes back to the beginning to search for answers to the conflict on Mauna Kea. Not the beginning of as...

  • Added: May 22, 2017
  • Length: 35:08
Second round of testing completed for chemicals of emerging concern in area lakes
From: WTIP
Series: The Lake Superior Project
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In this edition of The Lake Superior Project, Dr. Seth Moore, director of biology and environment with the Lake Superior Band of Chippewa, discusse...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 08:44
  • Purchases: 1
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
Amy Greeson - Medicine Hunter
From: WCWP
Series: Taking Care of Business with Richard Solomon
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Pharmacist Amy Greeson (www.healingseekers.com) travels to the remote corners of the earth to find healing plants to cure disease. Join host Richa...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
Dr. Seth Moore: Should moose be listed as a federal Endangered Species?
From: WTIP
Series: Dr. Seth Moore - Grand Portage Tribal Wildlife Biologist
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In this interview with producer Martha Marnocha of WTIP North Shore Community Radio, Grand Portage Trust Lands Wildlife Biologist Dr. Seth Moore ta...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2016
  • Length: 06:53
Dr. Seth Moore: Partnership with University of Minnesota looks at Grand Portage ecosystem health
From: WTIP
Series: Dr. Seth Moore - Grand Portage Tribal Wildlife Biologist
Caption: Drs. Seth Moore and Tiffany Wolf
In this interview with producer Martha Marnocha of WTIP North Shore Community Radio, Grand Portage Trust Lands Wildlife Biologist Dr. Seth Moore an...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Jul 05, 2016
  • Length: 06:41
  • Purchases: 1