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Jess hosts a conversation between climate scientist Dr. Brenda Ekwurzel and environmentalist and actor Eric Balfour about climate solutions and the...
- Added: Apr 16, 2024
- Length: 29:00
Wind power is the largest source of clean, renewable energy in the United States. But the large turbines that create that power can endanger wildli...
- Added: Apr 11, 2024
- Length: 06:41
In the terrible Texas cold front of 2021, some wind turbines stopped producing electricity. Does this mean we can’t rely on this clean, renewable s...
- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 07:03
We all want to live full, healthy lives. But climate change is threatening a growing number of people’s lives and well-being. Professor of public h...
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- Added: Feb 01, 2024
- Length: 11:20
- Purchases: 1
If you live in the U.S. Mountain West, the Pacific Coast of the Americas, or large parts of Australia or southern Europe, there’s a good chance a m...
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- Added: Feb 01, 2024
- Length: 13:08
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Refrigerants are in every refrigerator, freezer and air conditioner, and the world is on track to make a lot more of them in the years to come. The...
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- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 14:21
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Carbon dioxide—CO2—is the greenhouse gas you’ve probably heard most about. But it turns out, methane is an incredibly important greenhouse gas too....
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- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 12:02
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You probably know that today’s climate change is caused by certain gases—what scientists call greenhouse gases—that human activity has been adding ...
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- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 13:36
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We learn all about skunks with world renown mephitologist, Dr. Jerry Dragoo. Mixed with great music sure to captivate kids of all ages.
- Added: Dec 31, 2023
- Length: 58:00
We learn all about skunks with world renown mephitologist, Dr. Jerry Dragoo. Mixed with great music sure to captivate kids of all ages.
Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), RadioFreePalmer, KECG, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KRSC and more
- Added: Dec 31, 2023
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 10
Need some pumpkin pi to go with that leftover turkey? Jess highlights her favorite reasons to be thankful for science in this season of gratitude.
- Added: Nov 28, 2023
- Length: 18:00
I’ve learned so many great sustainability tips during my time at Possibly! But often I find it hard to convince my friends to change their habits, ...
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- Added: Nov 21, 2023
- Length: 03:57
- Purchases: 2
Youth movements are rising to restore people and planet. De’Anthony Jones, a former President of the Environmental Students Organization at Sacrame...
- Added: May 22, 2023
- Length: 28:31
Today, we have a question from one of our reporters, Kolya Shields. They're an artist, and they want to know- can art help fight climate change?
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- Added: Apr 17, 2023
- Length: 03:40
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Today, we have a question from a listener named Susan. She wants to know about gift wrapping: “Is it better for the environment to wrap Christmas g...
- Added: Dec 19, 2022
- Length: 03:24
- Purchases: 2
We cover a lot of heavy topics on this show, but today we’re bringing you a bright spot- a real success story.
Bald eagles almost disappeared ab...
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- Added: Apr 18, 2022
- Length: 03:19
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- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 05:09
The vast landscapes of the southwest are to die for and every once in a while I capture one with my camera. More and more I remind myself to just t...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:56
While most teenagers balk at cleaning their rooms, Fionn Ferreira is cleaning the world's oceans from microplastics. Fionn incorporated the use of ...
- Added: Mar 11, 2021
- Length: 02:24
Small town environmentalists and a dozen girl scouts won the first local bag ordinances in New Jersey, sparking the strongest state plastic ban in ...
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- Added: Jan 10, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
Today we have a question about paper recycling. What happens after you throw your paper into the blue bin? How much of that paper actually gets reu...
- Added: Oct 26, 2020
- Length: 03:50
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
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
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
“Queen of the forest canopy” Nalini Nadkarni is riding a new current of innovative scientists uncovering previously unexplored wonders in the fores...
- Added: Jul 17, 2019
- Length: 28:31
