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Quest_Graywater Guerillas
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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A report from the frontlines of D.I.Y eco-plumbing.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 23, 2007
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 1
Grand Experiment in Wildlife Management
From: Northwest News Network (N3)
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Scientists Attempt to Move Massive Commorant Colony from mouth of Columbia River

  • Added: Jul 17, 2007
  • Length: 04:13
Global warming has a goose face in Northwest
From: Northwest News Network (N3)
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Climate change sends Artic Snow geese to pastures in the Lower 48, nibbling away at farmers' profits.

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Jul 17, 2007
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 1
QUEST_The Legacy of Salt
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Quest radio takes a look at the largest wetlands restoration in the West - the South Bay Salt Ponds Restoration Project.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2007
  • Length: 05:48
Sculpted By Fire
From: Barbara Bernstein
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Wildfire season is upon us. SCULPTED BY FIRE challenges a lot of common assumptions about forest fires and the need to wage a war on fire that is r...

Bought by KPIK-LP, KDNK, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KALW, Jefferson Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 04, 2007
  • Length: 54:05
  • Purchases: 9
Salmonlands half-hour version
From: Barbara Bernstein
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Salmonlands is a journey into the land of salmon, why they are so significant to the culture and community of the Pacific Northwest, and what it wi...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and The Nature Podcast


  • Added: May 25, 2007
  • Length: 27:20
  • Purchases: 2
Cleaning Up Washington DC's "other" river.
From: Next Generation Radio
Series: NPR's Next Generation Radio
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Cleaning up Washington D.C's "other" river.

  • Added: Apr 08, 2007
  • Length: 03:47
Crossing Admiralty Inlet
From: John Ryan
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The rough seas -- real and virtual -- of Puget Sound

  • Added: Apr 06, 2007
  • Length: 06:08
Bridges over troubled waters
From: John Ryan
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Journey deep beneath the sea, and back in time, in the Tacoma Narrows

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Apr 04, 2007
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 1
Juneau's urban-avalanche forecasters
From: John Ryan
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Avalanche forecasters at work on the snowy slopes above Juneau, AK.

Bought by KZSC


  • Added: Mar 22, 2007
  • Length: 05:12
  • Purchases: 1
Humpback Whale Song
From: Heidi Chang
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Why do humpback whales sing? Some researchers are trying to solve that mystery as they take you on a wild adventure in Hawaii. Experience some cl...

Bought by PRX Remix, Here and Now, 90.9 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station, The Nature Podcast, KRCC-FM and more


  • Added: Mar 14, 2007
  • Length: 09:49
  • Purchases: 6
Spring Peepers
From: Ed Herrmann
Series: Wake Up and Hear the Roses
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frogs sing near Lake Michigan

Bought by KVSC, PRX to iTunes, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 12, 2006
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 3
Marine Harvest
From: KUOW
Series: Food for Thought: Farmed Salmon and the Future
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A look at a fish farm opened after a moratorium was lifted.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Mar 06, 2006
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 1
Saving the "King of Trees"
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
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Profile of a Connecticut scientist who is trying to reintroduce the American chestnut

Bought by PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Jul 18, 2005
  • Length: 06:51
  • Purchases: 1
March of the Salamanders
From: Adam Allington
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Every year the first spring rains rouse hibernating amphibians from their winter torpor. In Amherst, MA this time is punctuated by the annual Sala...

Bought by WABE, PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes, KUOW, and The Nature Podcast


  • Added: Apr 11, 2005
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 5
In Defense of Bad Weather
From: Guy Hand
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A good natured defense of bad weather.

Bought by KPIK-LP, PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes, and WGCU


  • Added: Feb 25, 2005
  • Length: 07:54
  • Purchases: 4
Moving the Village
From: Gabriel Spitzer
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Climate change is displacing a thousand-year-old community.

Bought by KVSC, KFAI Minneapolis, WMPG, The Nature Podcast, CKMO and more


  • Added: Feb 15, 2005
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Me and My Monkey
From: Steven Tagle
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This long audio essay explores primate research and the conflict that exists between treating monkeys humanely and treating them like humans.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2005
  • Length: 18:25
The Promise of Hydrogen - two parts
From: Cynthia Graber
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As the world grows more concerned about the cost and supply of oil and about climate change, Iceland is beginning an ambitious proejct to wean itse...

Bought by KVNF and CKMO


  • Added: Nov 22, 2004
  • Length: 30:38
  • Purchases: 2
Werner the Wormer
From: Zachary Barr
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2,000 people in Maine make their living digging for bloodworms. Meet Werner Rhode, worm digger.

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX, The Nature Podcast, and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Jul 07, 2004
  • Length: 04:19
  • Purchases: 3
The Tongass National Forest Part One
From: Guy Hand
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The wet and wild nature of Alaska's Tongass National Forest, the largest intact temperate rain forest in the world.

Bought by PRX to iTunes, The Nature Podcast, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Dec 11, 2003
  • Length: 11:11
  • Purchases: 3
The Tongass National Forest Part Two
From: Guy Hand
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The contentious legacy of logging on Alaska's Tongass National Forest, the largest intact temperate rain forest in the world.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Dec 11, 2003
  • Length: 13:56
  • Purchases: 2