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Over the past 50 years, the Amazon rainforest has lost nearly 20% of its forest cover. We talk with the Amazon expert who coined the term “biodive...
Bought by WCNY, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WTJU, KEDT, and WABE
- Added: Aug 14, 2015
- Length: 53:56
- Purchases: 5
Radio Curious visits with Roger Brandt, the manager of visitor services and education at the Oregon Caves National Monument, one of the few marble ...
- Added: Oct 21, 2014
- Length: 29:01
Radio Curious visits Wind Cave National Park in the Black Hills of southwest South Dakota, and speaks with the park's Chief of Interpretation Tom F...
- Added: Oct 15, 2014
- Length: 29:01
The Hawaiian crow is recovering from a devastating population crash, with help from us.
- Added: Mar 17, 2014
- Length: 01:00
Efforts are underway to restore the fragile ecosystem of the shifting, changing land masses known as Virginia's barrier islands.
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Feb 27, 2014
- Length: 06:13
- Purchases: 1
Prof. Doug Wiens describes his explorations of Antarctica. Wiens uses seismographs to study the physics behind ice movement and examine questions a...
- Added: Dec 20, 2013
- Length: 12:26
Like the pioneers of the American West, the birds that are now settling the Arctic frontier in response to climate change aren’t necessarily the bi...
- Added: Dec 16, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Brad Herried, cartographer & web developer at the U of MN Polar Geospatial Center, chatted with Buck Benson of WTIP recently about a new joint proj...
- Added: Sep 12, 2012
- Length: 14:41
Every winter, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico hosts a spectacular congregation of snow geese and sandhill cranes. Why do t...
Bought by KUPR low power FM and KENW
- Added: Jan 26, 2011
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 2
With their towering white trunks and fluttering leaves, quaking aspens are icons of the Rocky Mountains. Yet every fall, aspen stands paint West Te...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Nov 11, 2010
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Insects and the world we humans share with them is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious. Our guest is anthropologist Hugh Raffles, the author...
- Added: Jun 07, 2010
- Length: 29:23
A woman who usually does her "birding" in New York City's Central Park shares some of her reactions after experiencing the Sandhill Crane migration...
- Added: Apr 15, 2007
- Length: 02:51
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
