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Fertilizer Overload
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2013 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Too much of a good thing. We all know the hazards of that: too much fat, too much beer, too much chocolate… (Maybe not too much chocolate…) But, fo...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Oct 29, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Green Energy from Plants
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2013 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Medieval alchemy -- you’ve seen it in the movies: A wizard-like figure hovers over a glowing vat adding mysterious ingredients in his quest to tur...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Oct 29, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Monitoring Carbon
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2013 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Catch the news and weather at 10 tonight along with the day’s carbon report. Carbon report? That’s right. If the CarbonTracker system developed by...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Oct 29, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Mapping Elephant DNA
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2013 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Over the years, treasure maps have been of such interest that the Library of Congress devoted a volume to them! Now, a new kind of map is proving t...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
A Future for Taz
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2013 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Sometimes the devil makes for good company -- at least that's what they think in Tasmania. Since 1996, a deadly facial cancer has wiped out thousan...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Logging Underwater
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2013 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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If a tree at the bottom of a lake falls, does it make a sound? Either way, it doesn’t matter to lumberjacks at the Triton Logging Company. You see,...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
More Trees Please
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2013 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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There’s no doubt about it: our environmental problems can seem too overwhelming for one person to do anything about. But even our simplest actions ...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Eavesdropping on Elephants
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2013 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Even if you don’t want to talk about the proverbial “elephant in the room,” you could at least count the number roaming around wild. Or so you’d t...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Rubber Hits the Road
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2013 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Old tires. Mountains of rubber. What’s happening with to them these days? Well, in Pennsylvania, they’re hitting the road!

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Madagascar Wild
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2013 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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In 1997, thirteen Duke University residents went to Madagascar where they literally went wild. Today, several of them are still running amuck with...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Powered By The Sun
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2013 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Now here’s a ride Little Miss Sunshine and her eccentric family would have appreciated. Think sixties hippie culture meets Star Trek, and you end u...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. John Smol, one of the world's top Arctic researchers, studies climate change through lake sediment samples
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Buck Benson spoke recently with Prof. John Smol of Queen's University in Ontario about his work in paleolimnology, or the study of lake sedi...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 18:56
  • Purchases: 1
Local salt cave is therapeutic
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Minneapolis is home to Minnesota's only therapeutic salt cave. The man-made salt cave opened in July 2012 to help alleviate allergy symptoms, anxie...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 04:56
  • Purchases: 1
90 Second Naturalist - November 2013 Modules
From: WGUC/ WVXU
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90 second modules that celebrate the natural world and bring the wonder of nature into daily life.

  • Added: Oct 25, 2013
  • Length: 31:30
Food Sleuth Radio, Jay Feldman Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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What are the environmental and public health effects of GMO crops, related herbicides and pesticides? How can we protect our loved ones and our foo...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
An Interview with Christopher White
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program, Christopher White talks about and reads from his book 'The Melting World: A Journey Across America’s Vanishing Glaciers.'

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WCWP, KSJD, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 22, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Ancient water in Earth's crust may help scientists understand life here & possibly on other planets
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Dr. Barbara Sherwood Lollar of the University of Toronto was recently named by Canadian Geographic as someone making a significant difference in Ca...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2013
  • Length: 18:09
243: Globalization
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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"Globalization" is a term embroidered in meaning and often misunderstood. Is globalization a modern phenomenon or a function of history? In this ep...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2013
  • Length: 04:55
What's Happening To Our Skies?? - Part Two
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents a two part interview with Dane Wigington. Mr. Wigington is a solar energy expert who became aware of geoengineering w...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2013
  • Length: 28:36
What's Happening To Our Skies?? - Part One
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents a two part interview with Dane Wigington. Mr. Wigington is a solar energy expert who became aware of geoengineering w...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2013
  • Length: 28:34
Nanoparticles in Your Food??
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents Andrew Behar - As You Sow CEO who tells us that nanotechnology is already being used in food and food related product...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 30:08
  • Purchases: 1
Biohacking project a glowing controversy
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: A still from the BioCurious Kickstarter video
When we think of garage scientists, the eccentric, gray-haired Dr. Emmett Brown from Back to the Future might come to mind. But these days, garages...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 08:47
  • Purchases: 1
Let There Be Night (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Eight out of 10 children born in America today will never know a night sky dark enough to see the Milky Way. Are we experiencing the end of night?

Bought by WJCT, WTJU, and WTJU


  • Added: Oct 07, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
Let There Be Night (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Eight out of 10 children born in America today will never know a night sky dark enough to see the Milky Way. Are we experiencing the end of night?

Bought by WCNY and KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Oct 07, 2013
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 2
What ARE the long term effects of nuclear accidents?? Part Two
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents a two part interview with Dr. Timothy Mousseau, a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the Universit...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2013
  • Length: 28:33

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