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For the past three and a half decades, zebra and quagga mussels have fundamentally altered the ecology and hijacked the food web of the Great Lakes...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 15:15
A deadly fungal infection is pushing some bat species to the brink of extinction. As scientists scramble to track the spread of white nose syndrome...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 14:35
A team of archaeologists looks for signs of prehistoric life 100 feet underwater in Lake Huron. But they need help narrowing their search. So, they...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 17:20
Not only does soil support virtually every tree, plant and crop on earth, it can control toxic waste and help mitigate climate change.
Bought by KTNA
- Added: May 01, 2024
- Length: 12:58
- Purchases: 1
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
In this episode, go into the field with a team of scientists working to map the coastal seafloor in detail—and learn how their technologies could r...
- Added: Mar 06, 2023
- Length: 20:11
When it comes to mapping the seafloor, the hardest spots to see are the ones just off the coast. In this episode, find out why that's the case—and ...
- Added: Mar 06, 2023
- Length: 14:52
A lot of the changes needed to keep global heating below 1.5 degrees have to occur at a huge, international level. But nearly a fifth of carbon emi...
Bought by KSKQ
- Added: Apr 04, 2022
- Length: 01:24:16
- Purchases: 1
Bombardier Beetles: Saying "No" to a Hungry Predator
- Added: Dec 01, 2020
- Length: 02:00
And how California’s car emission standards continue to influence the rest of the country.
- Added: Jun 04, 2019
- Length: 39:44
This week on the show: Your breath smells like emotional tension -
Follow us into a darkened German cinema to talk about how the stuff we breathe...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Nov 14, 2018
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
Recorded live to tape from the streets, businesses, trade shows, homes, garages, work spaces, factories and classrooms, The UnCommonCore Podcast ex...
- Added: Dec 01, 2017
- Length: 55:54
Green Design: Why revolving doors rule. They give buildings the LEED badge when they are environmentally friendly. Why is a bldg a LEED bldg? A gr...
- Added: Mar 18, 2016
- Length: 14:57
Cloud seeding -- intervening in clouds to squeeze out precipitation -- is done all over the world. But it's not an exact science; we still have muc...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, The Allegheny Front: Reporting on the Environment, and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 20, 2015
- Length: 09:38
- Purchases: 3
Back in 1958 Popular Science published an article about General Motor’s plan to build self-driving cars guided by electrical cables in roadways. Gi...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
The most common element in all accidents is the human element. In the quest to eliminate driver error and make our roads safer, we’ve been searchin...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Believe it or not, electric vehicles used to be more popular than gasoline engines. The first practical electric car in 1884, and for decades many ...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
For the past fifty years physicists around the world have been trying to create a fusion power reactor, harnessing the processes deep inside of sta...
- Added: Jun 04, 2014
- Length: 02:00
In the mid-1980s, a small problem began to surface in a relatively obscure corner of the world. In 1994, just about a decade later, the World Healt...
- Added: Aug 07, 2013
- Length: 24:31
52 Hz is the name given to a mysterious whale that vocalizes at a different frequency than other whales. Some refer to him as "The World's Lonelies...
Bought by WJCT
- Added: Jul 18, 2013
- Length: 15:17
- Purchases: 1
Mining provides the resources for many products we use every day, but it's more than just a big corporate enterprise. Listen in for a look at some ...
- Added: May 24, 2013
- Length: 21:34
Every drug we take is tested with crab blood. And it all started with a walk on a beach.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Dec 04, 2012
- Length: 07:23
- Purchases: 3
We use natural gas to heat our homes and generate our power. Can we use it to fuel our cars? Big Gas thinks shale gas is the key to cleaning up our...
- Added: Dec 22, 2011
- Length: 06:57
Stanford University Engineer Mark Z. Jacobson is trying to convince the world that his energy plan based soley on renwables: wind, water, and solar...
- Added: Dec 20, 2011
- Length: 31:08
30 Second Promo for Antarctica: Life On The Ice Special
Bought by WFIU, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WCPN, 90.5 WSNC, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Jun 29, 2010
- Length: :30
- Purchases: 5