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Bill Shanabruch left his job as regional biologist for the Piedmont with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. It was over a boondoggl...
- Added: Apr 23, 2024
- Length: 26:08
As staggeringly complex as the environmental catastrophe is, by tackling one small space at a time, we might be able to bring back entire ecosystem...
- Added: Apr 16, 2024
- Length: 24:26
More ghostly encounters of a Third Kind with a woman named Sarah who seems to have something of a shine.
- Added: Oct 31, 2023
- Length: 25:23
An immunosuppressed physician explains what navigating her life – and her workplace – is like in this COVID-fatigued world.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Apr 07, 2022
- Length: 14:43
- Purchases: 1
Shermin de Silva was an elephant researcher looking for a sign. Then she met a king.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KRZA
- Added: Mar 31, 2021
- Length: 18:52
- Purchases: 2
Tracey Wingold has worked as a counselor for well over a decade, and she had a sort of head start on the COVID-19 crisis.
- Added: Apr 07, 2020
- Length: 08:01
Researchers are investigating a method of creating power from fast moving streams in Nepal. Sometimes these micro-hydro minigrids work and sometime...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Jan 14, 2020
- Length: 16:08
- Purchases: 1
Manasseh Franklin wanted to make the melting of glaciers more real to people through her writing. So on an Alaskan rafting trip, she followed water...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Jun 17, 2019
- Length: 23:41
- Purchases: 1
Sergio Avila Villegas always loved big cats. But his faith in his scientific research was shaken when he discovered its true cost.
- Added: Mar 05, 2019
- Length: 15:33
- Purchases: 2
Red wolves used to roam free across most of the eastern United States, from Maine to Florida, from Missouri to Texas, one of the top dogs in the fo...
- Added: Jul 16, 2018
- Length: 24:08
“Between A Rock And A Holy Place”
Ryan Haupt had a lot of questions about his faith. When he started looking for answers, he unearthed them in une...
Bought by KSTK
- Added: Apr 09, 2018
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
“Bearded Ladies”
A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: Paleobotanist Ellen Currano noticed a lack of other women in her field. So she...
Bought by KSTK
- Added: Apr 09, 2018
- Length: 27:59
- Purchases: 1
Marcus Eriksen wanted to draw attention to a problem no one could see. So he sailed into the middle of it.
- Added: Mar 28, 2018
- Length: 27:59
- Purchases: 2
"Trash Bandits And Border Collies" and "The Ents Of Melbourne"
A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: Maggie had it all: a fine house,...
Bought by KSTK and Boise State Public Radio
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
The paleo diet aims to take nutrition back to the basics—to the way Paleolithic people ate. But prehistoric people didn’t eat boneless chicken brea...
- Added: Mar 01, 2018
- Length: 16:34
- Purchases: 3
The UnCommonCore Podcast explores the ideas, experiences and perspectives that make us all different. Content includes everything from live to tape...
- Added: Feb 03, 2018
- Length: 38:02
Maggie had it all: a fine house, a loving family, and a big yard. But she threw it all away for adventure. And when things got bad, she had to use ...
- Added: Dec 06, 2017
- Length: 15:49
- Purchases: 3
We explore the alleged phenomenon of teachers getting bad dreams and nightmares, more often than everyone else, starting with several engineering t...
- Added: Aug 27, 2017
- Length: 34:47
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
This is the second episode in our three-part Science Camp series, where we’re exploring the human side of science. Paleobotanist Ellen Currano noti...
- Added: Jul 12, 2017
- Length: 21:01
- Purchases: 3
This is the first episode in a three-part summer series, called Science Camp, where we’re exploring the human side of science. Ryan Haupt had a lot...
Bought by Boise State Public Radio, KSFR, PRX Remix, and KRZA
- Added: Jun 21, 2017
- Length: 24:03
- Purchases: 4
MIT-graduate Tish Scolnik is using the power of business to give people with disabilities a new sense of freedom.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Jun 13, 2017
- Length: 14:28
- Purchases: 1
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
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
