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Science journalist Lynda Mapes takes us deep into a New England forest, where one tree is telling the story of climate change. This is the final ep...
- Added: Aug 04, 2017
- Length: 16:38
- Purchases: 2
If you want to experience the outdoors without actually having to leave your room, then his episode of The Rough Draft Diaries is the one for you! ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 11, 2017
- Length: 06:46
- Purchases: 1
This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, you'll meet Kent Bekker, the Director of Conservation at the Toledo Zoo. Kent's local conservation work began...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jun 30, 2017
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 1
Recently, millions protested government inaction on climate change and global warming. Let us find words to help the current administration grasp...
- Added: May 14, 2017
- Length: 02:52
Why do astronomers feel a giant new telescope on top of Mauna Kea is so important? What will Hawaii — and the scientific community — stand to lose ...
- Added: Apr 07, 2017
- Length: 38:39
A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: stories of animal encounters. A scientist risks his reputation to pursue Bigfoot; pigeons save t...
Bought by Raven Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., New Hampshire Public Radio, KUT, and XRAY.fm
- Added: Mar 09, 2017
- Length: 58:25
- Purchases: 5
A United States outdoor clothing store sells coats, labelled to assure us that the down is from US Ducks Independently Verified to Have been Neith...
- Added: Feb 22, 2017
- Length: 01:17
When Ryan and Sinehan Lessard first started dating, they discovered they have something strange in common: after they die, they both want to “becom...
- Added: Jan 19, 2017
- Length: 31:12
If you’re even the least bit interested in solar power, you’ve probably come across an obscure, hard-to-parse, seemingly conflict-free term: net me...
Bought by WMMT
- Added: Jan 16, 2017
- Length: 39:36
- Purchases: 1
For alpinist Ben Clark, scaling the world’s toughest mountains is a source of pride and peace; for his mom and dad it is a source of constant worry...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Nov 18, 2016
- Length: 56:30
- Purchases: 1
This week's hour long radio episode takes you from the finish line of the Boston Marathon, to the trails that snake through the White Mountains, an...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KUT
- Added: Nov 15, 2016
- Length: 56:30
- Purchases: 2
When Tony Bosco turned 30, he decided he wanted out of the rat race. So he went to his hometown in New Jersey, walked into the woods, and stayed th...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 09, 2016
- Length: 23:00
- Purchases: 1
Two stories about people fighting and overcoming tough odds: First, the tale of Tony Bosco, who camped in the woods around Rutgers University for m...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Nov 03, 2016
- Length: 56:28
- Purchases: 1
The rise and fall of the Keene Pumpkin Festival, a quaint New England tradition that took a dark turn when riots broke out in 2014. Plus, the calme...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Oct 28, 2016
- Length: 56:27
- Purchases: 1
Iago Hale has a vision: it’s one where the economy is revitalized by local farmers selling delicious cold hardy kiwi berries to the masses. Meanwhi...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 21, 2016
- Length: 17:15
- Purchases: 1
It’s not surprising that many of the medicines we use today are derived from plants. The surprising part is how similar the molecular components of...
- Added: Oct 20, 2016
- Length: 35:36
For our 13th episode, we venture off the beaten path to hear about Bigfoot and the scientist who’s on a mission to find him.
- Added: Oct 19, 2016
- Length: 18:38
- Purchases: 2
When a Harvard professor accidentally let Gypsy Moths loose in the 1860s, he didn't release he was unleashing a scourge that would plague New Engla...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Oct 17, 2016
- Length: 56:30
- Purchases: 1
Technology advances at breakneck speed, so why hasn’t the electric grid changed in 60 years? This week’s episode explores things, that for one rea...
- Added: Oct 17, 2016
- Length: 56:28
Tyler Armstrong is 12-years-old. He loves video games, laser tag, and he wants to become the youngest person to summit Mount Everest. In this episo...
- Added: Oct 17, 2016
- Length: 58:29
Ever since becoming a reporter, Sam has heard stories about a secret hunting reserve in New Hampshire, stocked with elk and 200-pound wild boar. I...
- Added: Oct 17, 2016
- Length: 56:28
There’s a very robust debate going on right now as to exactly how much sea level rise we’re in for, and the Cliffs Notes version is that it’s betwe...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 22:05
- Purchases: 1
The “Save the Whales” movement of the 1970’s was instrumental in putting a stop to commercial whaling. But even as humpbacks and other whale popula...
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 27:48
Biocontrol feels like the pinnacle of human arrogance. We’re trying to play God, taking a delicately balanced ecosystem and stomping all over it w...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 29:35
- Purchases: 1
Virginia’s Barrier Islands, and the waters and salt marshes that surround them, are among the most pristine coastal regions on the entire Eastern S...
- Added: Jun 16, 2016
- Length: 25:17
