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240419: Artificial Intelligence, Real Climate Impacts , 4/19/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Artificial intelligence can do some pretty amazing things, including for the climate. AI can help optimize the electric grid, make heating and cool...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
2024-04-19 Artificial Intelligence, Real Climate Impacts
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Artificial intelligence can do some pretty amazing things, including for the climate. AI can help optimize the electric grid, make heating and cool...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
Can we harness electricity from eels?
From: Possibly
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Recently, we got a question from one of our listeners. Matt from Providence wants to know - can we harness electricity from electric eels? We were ...

Bought by Raven Radio, KICI Iowa City, WRFA-LP, and KMXT


  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 4
Aqua-Cultural Thoughts
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Seafood is a world staple, under siege by increased consumption and over-fishing. Aquaculture is the necessary alternative, yet is a polarizing iss...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2024
  • Length: 05:18
Drinking Plastic with Mike Belliveau
From: Doug Wood
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Every plastic bottle is filled with hundreds of thousands of tiny pieces of plastic. Here's what you need to know.

  • Added: Feb 27, 2024
  • Length: 28:25
Why are we replanting the Atlantic Forest?
From: Possibly
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Today, we’re traveling to the Atlantic Forest in Brazil, the second largest rainforest in Brazil— behind the Amazon Rainforest. Today it stands at ...

Bought by WRFA-LP and Raven Radio


  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 2
How does Rhode Island’s new community choice aggregation program work?
From: Possibly
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If you live in Rhode Island, there’s a decent chance you got some version of this letter, too. That’s because last year, seven towns in Rhode Islan...

Bought by WRFA-LP and Raven Radio


  • Added: Jan 03, 2024
  • Length: 03:53
  • Purchases: 2
Can I trust the solar panel companies that knock on my door?
From: Possibly
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Recently, I’ve had a lot of people knocking on my door, trying to sell me solar panels. It happened just last week! I wanted to find out if they ar...

Bought by KRPS, WRFA-LP, and Raven Radio


  • Added: Jan 03, 2024
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 3
06-16: Cultural Mindshift: Full Spectrum Sustainability and Resilience, 1/10/2024
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: David Orr, Credit: Tim Porter
Climate is the trip wire for every other foundational ecological and biological system – as well as the basis for human civilization. As we face th...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
Marine Biomimetics, part two
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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In these three episodes of World Ocean Radio we are exploring a recent publication entitled “A Forgotten Element in the Blue Economy: Marine Biomim...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2023
  • Length: 05:07
771-Nice PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Psyche, Credit: NASA
NASA classifies 2023 SZ1 as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid since it is larger than 140m in diameter and on its current path can come to about 6 t...

Bought by Raven Radio, WYAP, RADIOLEX, KGLP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Nov 05, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
2023-09-15 The Nuclear Option
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Fourteen years after receiving its permit, the nation’s first new nuclear reactors in decades just fired up in Georgia. Massive, traditional nuclea...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Maine Public Radio, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14
230915: The Nuclear Option, 9/15/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Fourteen years after receiving its permit, the nation’s first new nuclear reactors in decades just fired up in Georgia. Massive, traditional nuclea...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Nuclear Weapons in Space with Karl Grossman
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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How the military is preparing space for the next world war.

Bought by WRFA-LP and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:45
  • Purchases: 2
763-Hogan’s Big Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Nucleus Comet Wild-2, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Josh Hogan was asteroid hunting in the constellation Sextans with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona whe...

Bought by Raven Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KGLP, RADIOLEX, WTIP and more


  • Added: Sep 10, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
What’s happening to the world’s glaciers?
From: Possibly
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Today, we have a question from one of our reporters, Kolya Shields. They keep seeing timelapse photos showing ice sheets shrinking faster and faste...

Bought by WRFA-LP, Raven Radio, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 31, 2023
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
How much energy does it take to run ChatGPT?
From: Possibly
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Everybody is talking about ChatGPT, the new machine-learning tool for answering questions. These giant computer models need a whole lot of computi...

Bought by WRFA-LP and Raven Radio


  • Added: Aug 31, 2023
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 2
Blue Light Trouble with Dr. Josh Rosenthal
From: Doug Wood
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Blue light from device screens can upset your body's internal clock with dangerous consequences.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 28:51
Why are we breaking records for the hottest day on record?
From: Possibly
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When people talk about climate change, it’s often described as something that might happen in the future. But, we’ve been breaking records for the ...

Bought by Raven Radio, WRFA-LP, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 07, 2023
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 3
755-Geyser of Life-Maybe
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Enceladus spews water from cracks in its south polar crust., Credit: NASA/JPL-CALTECH/SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE
In 2023 the James Webb Space Telescope spotted a geyser of water vapor extending more than 80% of the Earth’s diameter erupting from Saturn’s moon ...

Bought by WTIP, Raven Radio, KKRN, KGLP, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Jul 16, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
03-13: Disruptive Design: What Good Looks Like, 6/28/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Cheryl Dahle
Aligning business with biology, disruptive design uses systems thinking to create models that show what “good” really looks like. Two winners of th...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
How are other cities responding to rising waters?
From: Possibly
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Today, we’re talking about how cities and towns are preparing for rising waters. Right here in Rhode Island, the town of Warren is developing a pla...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WRFA-LP, and Raven Radio


  • Added: Jun 08, 2023
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
How can we get more energy from heat in the ground?
From: Possibly
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We’ve used the Earth’s heat as an industrial energy source for over a century, but geothermal power only plays a minor role in our energy grid. Why...

Bought by WRFA-LP, Raven Radio, and KMXT


  • Added: Jun 08, 2023
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 3
Should I idle my car or stop and restart?
From: Possibly
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Today we’re taking on a question from listener Megan Heinz. She often picks up her son at his school in the car pickup line. And she's wondering if...

Bought by Raven Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: May 22, 2023
  • Length: 03:39
  • Purchases: 2
RESCUE, part 17: Technology & the Ocean Pharmacopeia
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week the multi-part RESCUE series continues with an examination of familiar products derived from the ocean that we use to support our ways of...

  • Added: May 03, 2023
  • Length: 05:04