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Caption: Ep 3 title card, Credit: Greta Rybus
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
Caption: Episode 2 title card, Credit: Greta Rybus
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
Caption: Diane Fuller & Chris Beaver, San Francisco, CA  9/12/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Chris Beaver and Diana Fuller talk garbage, waste, and full-circle recycling.

  • Added: Sep 21, 2016
  • Length: 14:32
Caption: Andrea Patterson inspects a common yellowthroat in order to determine its age and sex during the banding process., Credit: Veronica Volk
Some of the migratory songbirds that pass through the Great Lakes region are already on the move, but their migratory patterns are shifting due to ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCMU Michigan, WCPN, WRVO Public Media, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2016
  • Length: 03:38
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Diver prepares to head into waters of Lake Huron, Credit: Ben Thorp
Scientists are trying to figure out how Earth developed an atmosphere rich in oxygen. The answer to this billion-year-old mystery may lie in an unl...

Bought by Delta College Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, Interlochen Public Radio, WCPN, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2016
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 6
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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
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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
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An audio postcard highlighting the wide variety of whales, porpoises and dolphins that inhabit the waters along northern California and southern Or...

Bought by KLCC, WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 4
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A discussion of the unparalleled conifer biodiversity in the Klamath mountain region. Taking the long view through geologic time, this segment of ...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 3
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An audio postcard about the American Dipper, highlighting some behavioral and physiological aspects of this ubiquitous songbird along rivers and st...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, KRZA, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 01:27
  • Purchases: 4
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Wasting water? Is it your long showers or something else? Shirley Camia explores who is emptying Canada's lakes.Your long shower is nothing compare...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2016
  • Length: 10:40
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The enormous implications of mining the floor of the deep sea. It's starting. It's calledr "squalene" and is in lots of beauty products. It's usual...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2016
  • Length: 18:27
Caption: Barry Truitt at the helm., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Virginia’s Barrier Islands and the waters and salt marshes that surround them represent the most pristine coastal region on the Eastern Seaboard. U...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2016
  • Length: 27:59
Caption: Alvin Sketch , Credit: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Alvin, a deep submersible vehicle, can dive almost 3 miles into the ocean.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 30, 2016
  • Length: 07:42
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Residents of India, Israel confront water issues such as flooding, drought, pollution, and lack of access by the poor.
Scientists say most people on Earth will first experience climate change in terms of water — either too much or too little. This documentary explor...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WMUU-LP, Interlochen Public Radio, WVPE, WRIR and more


  • Added: May 12, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 15

  • Added: Apr 13, 2016
  • Length: 04:02
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Apr 13, 2016
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Apr 13, 2016
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Apr 13, 2016
  • Length: 04:27
  • Purchases: 1
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Simon Clydesdale of GPUK describes fugitive emissions and the prank GPUK pulled trying to frack the PM's house

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 01:47
  • Purchases: 1
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How to grow veggies without using pesticides. Even in a small plot. Why you don't you want Roundup in your garden.

  • Added: Mar 24, 2016
  • Length: 12:35
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Veteran forest campaigner Richard Brooks shows how easy it is to go green when renovating.

  • Added: Mar 18, 2016
  • Length: 04:04
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Green Design: Why revolving doors rule. They give buildings the LEED badge when they are environmentally friendly. Why is a bldg a LEED bldg? A gr...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2016
  • Length: 14:57