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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....

  • Added: Apr 16, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
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
785-Secret Asteroid Mission
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Psyche and Spacecraft, Credit: NASA
Unlike other space missions which are conducted out in the open the asteroid mining company AstroForge’s first mission to a potentially valuable ne...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KGLP, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 11, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
784-Josh’s Two PHAs
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
So far asteroid hunters have discovered approximately half of the 5,000 PHAs which are likely to exist. Asteroid hunters will continue to search th...

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  • Added: Feb 04, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
783--Kacper’s Centaur
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists conception of a Centaur, Credit: NASA/NEOWISE
Centaurs have long puzzled astronomers since they have traits in common with both asteroids and comets.

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Daniel Kammen: The Perils of Deep-Sea Mining
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Daniel Kammen
Most of us have never been there but according to a quick Google search, some of the things you might see at the bottom of the ocean include sea sp...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Jan 24, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
782-Probing The Cosmic Web
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: A Cosmic Thread, Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Feige Wang (University of Arizona)
In the past two decades astronomers have discovered that galaxies are not randomly distributed in space but rather occur along filaments of mass wi...

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  • Added: Jan 21, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
781-Comet C/2023 V5 (Leonard)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Lemmon C/2023 H2, Credit: J.D. Maddy in the Hauchuca Astronomy Club
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Aquarius with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizo...

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  • Added: Jan 14, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
779-What If An Asteroid is About To Impact Earth?
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Concept of Asteroid Pulversation, Credit: Lubin 2021
A description of a research project whose goal to explore if it would be possible, on short notice, to pulverize a small asteroid so that it woul...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
778-Two Comets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Two Comets in Southern Skies , Credit: Jose J. Chambo (Cometografia)
Matching his wife’s discovery of two comets on the same observing run seven years previously my Catalina Sky Survey team caption Carson Fuls discov...

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  • Added: Dec 24, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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
David Ho on Carbon Offsets: Much Ado About Nothing?
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: David Ho
Carbon offsets are often touted as a solution to humanity’s bad habit of emitting an awful lot of CO2. But how many of us actually know what things...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Oct 28, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Israeli Entrepreneur and Philanthropist Ziv Aviram on the EcoBridge Initiative
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Ziv Aviram
Have you ever thought about what you'd do to save the planet if you were a billionaire? Well, this week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with billiona...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Joseph McFadden: A Cattle Biologist Explains Feed Additives
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Joseph McFadden
Did you know that India accounts for about one-third of the world’s one billion head of cattle? Last week on Sea Change Radio, we spoke to the head...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
David Messina: Rumin8 Strives To Reduce Cow Methane Emissions
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: David Messina
When we think about greenhouse gas emissions, automobiles, airplanes, and power plants usually figure more prominently than livestock. The methane ...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Jeff Stoike: Blue Action Lab
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jeff Stoike
As the winter chill of February continues to prickle the skin, the warm tides of the Bahamas may sound particularly appealing. This week on Sea Cha...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Lisa Song: Hard Pass on The Gas
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Lisa Song
Frequent Sea Change Radio listeners have known for a while about the drawbacks of gas stoves - it turns out they're considerably worse for both the...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Nurdle Hurdles + Turning Plastic Into Gravel
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...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
And That’s Just the Tip of the Iceberg: Bob Berwyn on European Glacier Melt
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Bob Berwyn
Ice caps, or the apex of glaciers, are delicate things. As the earth warms, they respond by rapidly thawing into their oceanic homes. This week on ...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
706-Wonders to Behold(492)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: M107, Credit: HST-NASA
From the time 3 million years ago that our ancestor Lucy walked in what is now Ethiopia until the widespread use of electric lighting began in the ...

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  • Added: Aug 07, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
The Revelator’s John Platt on Endangered Species
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Piece image
Historian and philosopher Yuval Harari writes, “When the first humans reached Australia about 45,000 years ago, they quickly drove to extinction 90...

  • Added: Jul 13, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
John Fleck: Drought Dilemmas and the Colorado River
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: John Fleck
Years of extreme drought have left the Colorado River at alarmingly low levels. Earlier this month, water management experts testified in front of ...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
The Promise of Psychedelic Therapy
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Oli Mittermaier
Psychologist and pop culture icon of the 1960s, Timothy Leary, famously instructed San Francisco hippies to take psychedelic drugs in order to “tur...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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