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The Highest Stakes
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
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With the backdrop of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), Jess catches up with lawyer and climate negotiator Hafij Khan about the ...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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
Special Episode - This Is Science Thanks
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
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Need some pumpkin pi to go with that leftover turkey? Jess highlights her favorite reasons to be thankful for science in this season of gratitude.

  • Added: Nov 28, 2023
  • Length: 18:00
AMOS 23-242: Why Are Dogs Such Messy Drinkers?, 12/5/2023
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Why Are Dogs Such Messy Drinkers?

  • Added: Nov 07, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
The Promise and Peril of Geoengineering
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Image of Arctic Ice, Credit: Pink floyd88 a, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
In recent years, scientists have begun testing geoengineering technologies to slow down or even stop global warming. But, is geoengineering safe? A...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
2023-10-20 Community Resilience: Knowing Your Neighbor Could Save Your Life
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Disasters caused by burning fossil fuels are becoming more frequent, and in the aftermath of hurricanes, floods and wildfires, federal and state re...

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


  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
231020: Community Resilience: Knowing Your Neighbor Could Save Your Life, 10/20/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Disasters caused by burning fossil fuels are becoming more frequent, and in the aftermath of hurricanes, floods and wildfires, federal and state re...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
Dust To Eat
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
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Jess digs into the science of soils and farming in the century of climate change with Dr. Rick Cruse of Iowa State University.

  • Added: Oct 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:49
Smithsonian Associate, Dr. Noah Whiteman: Toxic Allure: The Hidden World of Nature's Most Captivating Poisons
From: Paul VOGELZANG
Series: Smithsonian Associates Interview Series, Not Old Better Show
Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series
My guest today, Dr. Noah Whiteman, tells us to scratch beneath the surface of a coffee bean, a red pepper flake, a poppy seed, a mold spore, a foxg...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2023
  • Length: 35:16
Science Fiction
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
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Science fictions are widely held dangerous beliefs that are not supported by science. Jess explores a few of these in anticipation of the continued...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Unlocking the Power of Rewilding: An Exclusive Interview with Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell
From: Paul VOGELZANG
Series: Smithsonian Associates Interview Series, Not Old Better Show
Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates
he Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Interview Series

  • Added: Sep 21, 2023
  • Length: 30:37
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
Wet Hot American Summer
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
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Jess talks with UCLA climate scientist and Weather West blogger Dr. Daniel Swain about this summer of extremes.

  • Added: Sep 05, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
RESCUE, part 30: Fresh Water and World Ocean Health
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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We are nearing the end of the RESCUE series. This week, in its 30th edition, we're talking about water: the well-spring of world ocean health and t...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2023
  • Length: 04:57
2023-08-18 Navigating Science and Feelings on a Destabilized Planet
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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This year is shaping up to be the hottest year in 125,000 years. It may also be the coolest year a child born today will ever see. In “The Quickeni...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, Nevada Public Radio, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Aug 17, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 10
230818: Navigating Science and Feelings on a Destabilized Planet, 8/18/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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This year is shaping up to be the hottest year in 125,000 years. It may also be the coolest year a child born today will ever see. In “The Quickeni...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
EE 23-35: A beehive contains multitudes, 8/25/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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Microbiologist Irene Garcia Newton shares her knowledge about the many organisms involved in keeping a colony of honeybees healthy.

  • Added: Aug 15, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
Terrapins and Terriers (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In the early 20th century, terrapins–a kind of turtle–were a culinary delicacy. Then humans nearly hunted them to extinction.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KXCV, WRMU and more


  • Added: Aug 04, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
Terrapins and Terriers (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In the early 20th century, terrapins–a kind of turtle–were a culinary delicacy. Then humans nearly hunted them to extinction.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, WYAP, and KHEN-LP


  • Added: Aug 04, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
Terrapins and Terriers (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In the early 20th century, terrapins–a kind of turtle–were a culinary delicacy. Then humans nearly hunted them to extinction.

Bought by WTJU, KXCV, WMUU-LP, KEDT, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Aug 04, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
Terrapins Terriers (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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In the early 20th century, terrapins–a kind of turtle–were a culinary delicacy. Then humans nearly hunted them to extinction.

Bought by WABE, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KXCV, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Aug 04, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
Oppenheimer’s omission and other secrets of the Atomic Age
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Caption: Paul Pino of Carrizozo, New Mexico., Credit: Nate Hegyi
From NHPR's Outside/In comes two stories that shed light on unseen consequences of America's nuclear ambitions.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Vermont Public, and Valley Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 01, 2023
  • Length: 56:30
  • Purchases: 4
episode 6: glacier thread
From: Theresa Soley
Series: Ice and Fire
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In the last full episode of the season, we travel to the Greenland ice sheet and hear from a researcher who collects data at the face of tidewater ...

  • Added: Jul 12, 2023
  • Length: 23:22
RESCUE, part 25: How to Transform the Ocean Apparat
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week we continue the multi-part RESCUE series with a proposed solution to advance successful connection and communication within and with thos...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2023
  • Length: 10:25

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