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Testing for Toxins with Leah Segedie
From: Doug Wood
Series: Grassroots
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Mamavation is the leading site for independent testing of consumer products. We talk with founder Leah Segedie.

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  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 28:11
  • Purchases: 1
The Glyphosate-Autism Connection
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Dr. Stephanie Seneff of MIT talks about her research linking pesticide residues in food to the destruction of gut bacteria and link to autism.

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  • Added: Jan 29, 2024
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 2
782-Probing The Cosmic Web
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: A Cosmic Thread, Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Feige Wang (University of Arizona)
In the past two decades astronomers have discovered that galaxies are not randomly distributed in space but rather occur along filaments of mass wi...

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  • Added: Jan 21, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
The Stink Over PFAS with Tracy Frisch
From: Doug Wood
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Scientist Dr. Tracy Frisch explains why spreading fertilizer from sewage sludge is a really bad idea.

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  • Added: Jan 16, 2024
  • Length: 28:09
  • Purchases: 1
The EMS - Mold Connection with Dr. Sharon Goldberg
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Integrative health physician Dr. Sharon Goldberg talks about helping her patients who suffer from Electromagnetic Sensitivity and how their symptom...

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  • Added: Nov 01, 2023
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 2
The Ocean is Telling Us - with Dr. Sandra Steingraber
From: Doug Wood
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Author and biologist Sandra Steingraber talks about the impact of fossil fuels on our oceans, ahead of the March to End Fossil Fuels.

  • Added: Sep 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:48
Is This the End of Humans? with Dr. Shanna Swan
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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World renowned epidemiologist Shanna Swan has an important warning for couples planning to have a baby.

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  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 3
The Unwanted Chemicals in Every Plastic Bottle with Mike Belliveau
From: Doug Wood
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When you drink from a plastic bottle, you're getting much more than you think. An array of toxic chemicals is going down your throat.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2023
  • Length: 28:11
Beware What You Wear with Alden Wicker
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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After the news, author and investigative journalist Alden Wicker talks about toxic chemicals in the fashion industry.

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  • Added: Jul 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:14
  • Purchases: 2
The Environmental Nightmare of Plastic with Erica Cirino
From: Doug Wood
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch was just the beginning for author and photographer Erica Cirino.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 28:25
A New War on Cancer with Kristina Marusic
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Author Kristina Marusic talks about her new book A New War on Cancer about the environmental links to the dreaded disease.

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  • Added: Jun 19, 2023
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 2
Never Drink from a Plastic Bottle with Dr. Jenny Davies
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Dr. Jenny Davies (MD, MPH and JD) talks about how chemicals in plastic leach into the contents of any plastic bottle.

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  • Added: Jun 12, 2023
  • Length: 28:41
  • Purchases: 3
The Dirt on PFAS with Tracy Frisch
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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NY Sierra Club's Tracy Frisch tells why spreading sewage sludge on farmland is a really bad idea that will contaminate fields forever.

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  • Added: Jun 05, 2023
  • Length: 28:15
  • Purchases: 3
The PFAS Problem with Dr. Arlene Blum
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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The class of chemicals known as PFAS causes cancer and disrupts the endocrine system, and will pollute the world forever.

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  • Added: May 22, 2023
  • Length: 28:20
  • Purchases: 1
Breast Cancer in a Bottle with Polly Marshall
From: Doug Wood
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Chemicals in personal care products millions of women use everyday increase your risk of breast cancer.

  • Added: Apr 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:21
The Cell Phone Disconnect
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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On this edition of GSN, Dr. Paul Heroux explains some of the history of cell phones and how and why they should be made safer.

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  • Added: Apr 10, 2023
  • Length: 28:15
  • Purchases: 1
Cracking the Havana Syndrome with Dr. Beatrice Golomb
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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The symptoms suffered by diplomats and White House staff came from the same kind of radiation emitted by cell phones and cell towers.

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  • Added: Apr 03, 2023
  • Length: 57:10
  • Purchases: 2
Closing the Nuclear Cancer Factory
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Diane Turco from Cape Downwinders talks about the company decommissioning the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant, and how they're trying to save money buy...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2023
  • Length: 28:04
Crystal Kolden: Prepping For Wildfire Season
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Crystal Kolden
Yes, there will be millions of collective sighs as the deadliest pandemic in a century begins to abate and a more open summer kicks off. But summer...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 08, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for April 8, 2020
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Donald Trump’s Malignant Narcissism Key Factor in Federal Government’s Fai...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
537-Earth Glow
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In 1972 Apollo 16 astronauts took an ultraviolet image of the Earth from the Moon which shows that like the Sun ,the Earth too, has a faint corona...

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  • Added: Apr 25, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
527-Comet Groeller
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groeller was asteroid hunting with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona when he discovered his fir...

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  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
481-Fireball
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On July 8, 2018 a beautiful fireball Meteor was seen streaking across the sky in evening twilight. So far the American Meteor Society has receive...

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  • Added: Jul 26, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Coastal Homes and Properties at Risk: Sea level rise, Flooding, and Inundation
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: Got Science?
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Economist and climate change expert Dr. Rachel Cleetus discusses new analysis that pairs NOAA climate change research with Zillow real estate data ...

Bought by WCNY and WCNY


  • Added: Jun 26, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Pollution cleanup progresses along Lake Ontario
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Dave Hurlburt of teh BayCreek Paddling Center, Credit: Caitlin Whyte
Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent to clean up the Great Lakes each year. And a federal law targets some of the most contaminated areas, tho...

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  • Added: Mar 02, 2018
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 8