PRX - Pieces for Topic: Science

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

68 results


Maria Gallucci: Zero Emission Marine Vessels
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Maria Gallucci
When it comes to energy transitions, marine vessels tend to get overlooked, even though they are some of the worst polluters of our oceans and air....

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Apr 16, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
California Termites and the Atmosphere
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Dylan Gaeta
California is famous for its picturesque sunsets, year-round mild weather, excellent surf, and largely progressive politics, including forward-thin...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
All the Noise Surrounding Electric Cars
From: Skeptoid
Series: Skeptoid Radio Hour
Piece image
Brian Dunning separates fact from fiction as he examines the talking points made by the many people who hate electric cars.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
The Ethical Dilemma of Geoengineering & Global Warming (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Image of Arctic Ice, Credit: Pink floyd88 a via Wikimedia Commons
In an era where climate change is top of mind for all and our futures hang in the balance, scientists think they’ve found a solution: geoengineerin...

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


  • Added: Mar 05, 2024
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 4
Andrea Thompson: Battling Extreme Heat Fatigue
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Andrea Thompson
While you're shoveling snow out of the driveway this week, you may not want to hear about extreme heat - but then again, maybe you do! This week on...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
Salt Lake City Water Reclamation Center
From: KRCL
Series: Ways of Water
Piece image
Connor visited the site of the new Salt Lake City Water Reclamation Center. This is the largest public utilities project in SLC's history, coming i...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2024
  • Length: 08:54
Matt Simon on Microplastics, Pt. 2
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Matt Simon
Last week on Sea Change Radio, we learned that the plastics industry plans to triple production in the next 40 years, reaching 3 trillion pounds of...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Matt Simon on Microplastics, Pt. 1
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Matt Simon
Look around you: at this very moment, chances are that within a one-foot radius of your body, there’s something plastic. The ubiquity of plastic co...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Constant Wonder - A Humble Farmer Walks the Globe and Meets the World's Elite
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
Piece image
By age 25, a young Croatian had come down with a bad case of wanderlust. So much wanderlust that he lived out his days as a perpetual pedestrian, w...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Sep 14, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 2
2023-03-03 Has Hydrogen’s Moment Finally Arrived?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Piece image
Not long ago, it was said that “hydrogen is the fuel of the future - and always will be.” Now, with the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law tagging $9.5 ...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, Maine Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Mar 02, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 11
230303: Has Hydrogen’s Moment Finally Arrived?, 3/3/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
Piece image
Not long ago, it was said that “hydrogen is the fuel of the future - and always will be.” Now, with the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law tagging $9.5 ...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
Neel Dhanesha: Nurdle Hurdles
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Neel Dhanesha
What is a nurdle, you ask? Is it the latest variation on the popular New York Times puzzle, Wordle? No, not quite. Nurdles are the tiny little petr...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 25, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
20220311 Turning Air into Stone: Tech-Based Carbon Removal
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Piece image
It has been 3 million years since we’ve had this much CO2 in the atmosphere. Even if we stop all burning of fossil fuels today, humans have already...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KWIT, WMUU-LP, KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 13
20220311: Turning Air into Stone: Tech-Based Carbon Removal, 3/11/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
Piece image
It has been 3 million years since we’ve had this much CO2 in the atmosphere. Even if we stop all burning of fossil fuels today, humans have already...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
2022-02-25 Cow Poop and Compost: Digesting the Methane Menace
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Piece image
In a 20-year time frame, methane is 80 times more damaging to the climate than carbon dioxide. Nationally, 37% of methane emissions come from cows....

Bought by Maine Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA and more


  • Added: Feb 24, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 10
20220225: Cow Poop and Compost: Digesting the Methane Menace, 2/25/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
Piece image
In a 20-year time frame, methane is 80 times more damaging to the climate than carbon dioxide. Nationally, 37% of methane emissions come from cows....

  • Added: Feb 24, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
Andrea Copping: The Latest on Marine Energy Projects
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Andrea Copping
We hear a lot about solar and wind power, but a renewable source of clean energy that continues to be largely untapped is the ocean. According to t...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Top of Mind - What To Save, Deepfake Geography, Stereo Smell
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
Piece image
Topic 1: How do National Park officials decide which plants and animals to save as the climate changes? Topic 2: Imagine the harm a fake satellite ...

Bought by WYAP, KOWS, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KSTK


  • Added: Dec 20, 2021
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 5
Spectrum 11/19/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
Piece image
This week on the show: Sat up - As we enter the age of satellite mega-constellations, it’s time to celebrate an unsung satellite hero that’s wa...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Nov 20, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Fighting Smog in Los Angeles
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Piece image
And how California’s car emission standards continue to influence the rest of the country.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2019
  • Length: 39:44
PurpleAir Founder Adrian Dybwad
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Adrian Dybwad
Northern California’s now infamous Camp Fire was not only the largest, longest, and deadliest wildfire in the state’s history, it also produced rec...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ian Power: Rocking Climate Change
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Ian Power
There is no silver bullet to solve the intractable problem of global warming. Nevertheless, there is a lot of vital and hopeful work being done to ...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
Arthur Firstenberg - 5G From Space
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
Piece image
The Living Well Show presents Arthur Firstenberg. Mr. Firstenberg is the author of The Invisible Rainbow- A History of Electricity and Life. Mr. Fi...

Bought by WPCA-LP and KRZA


  • Added: Jul 11, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Spectrum 05/29/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
Piece image
On this week's show: We are all living on a volcano. What's it like living next a shaking, spewing volcano? And what's coming next for Hawaiians?...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: May 29, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Crypto-Carbon: Nori's Paul Gambill
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Paul Gambill
If you ask most people what they think of blockchain applications or cryptocurrency, the response is usually a blank stare of utter bafflement. Wel...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:30