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Ghost Schools
From: Seattle Globalist
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Primary education is compulsory in Pakistan, and the country has a large public school system. But many of these schools are just marginally functi...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WBEZ


  • Added: Aug 20, 2010
  • Length: 06:45
  • Purchases: 2
Seattle's Ellis Island
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Between Worlds/Behind Bars
Caption: Many Uch at the Airport Way Detention Facility., Credit: Eroyn Franklin
An imposing brick building on Airport Way at the edge of the International District housed detained immigrants from 1931 to 2004. It was once known...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 08:58
  • Purchases: 1
The Better Bee
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Domestic tranquility has its place, but we all need a little walk on the wild side from time to time. And, apparently, the same goes for bees.

Bought by WTIP and KOSU


  • Added: May 25, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Steve Moore: Tears of a Clown, Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Steve Moore learned about the nature of comedy at an early age. He refined his talents out in LA and just as his career was taking off he was diagn...

  • Added: May 04, 2010
  • Length: 26:15
Wolves of Isle Royale
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Running with the wolves just isn't happening on upper Michigan's Isle Royale. That's because most wolves on the remote isle have advanced arthritis.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
For the Birds
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Prairie birds of a feather flock together -- but not like they used to.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Mar 26, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
A Tale of Two Heads
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Seems there are some strange critters living in water. Take for example the anglerfish with its glow-in-the-dark lantern on its forehead...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Mar 26, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Plague on the Prairie
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The black plague once decimated human towns in Medieval Europe. Today it's hitting prairie dog towns on the grasslands of the northern Midwest.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Jan 22, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Nature Deficit Disorder
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Remember the days when kids hiked into the woods? Caught tadpoles in a stream, and played tag on the playground? Well, those days are fading fast.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Oct 22, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Fertilizer Dead Zones
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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This isn’t how fertilizers are supposed to work. You’d think that more nutrients in water would be good for aquatic life. But, they’re actually con...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Oct 22, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
A Pesticide Banned
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Rachel Carson warned us.In 1962, she spoke out against the use of DDT in her book Silent Spring. I wonder what she would say about carbofuran today...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Oct 22, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Pollution Connection
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The latest air pollution discovery reads like a murder mystery.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Sep 22, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Giving Tuna a Break
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Can you imagine a world without tuna? No more, "Chicken of the Sea?" Believe it or not, most tuna species have been heavily fished, some almost to ...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2009
  • Length: 01:31
Reducing Road Pollution
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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If you’re stuck in traffic, here’s something you might be interested in knowing. A University of Southern California research group reports that ne...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
E-Waste
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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What happens to our consumer electronics after they've served their useful life? Discarded computer monitors often get shipped to Asia or Africa.

Bought by KMXT and KOSU


  • Added: Jun 17, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Bees Disappearing Act
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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In the groovy 60s we were singing “Where have all the flowers gone?” Could a day come when we’ll sing the same about the honeybees?

Bought by KMXT and KOSU


  • Added: Jun 17, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Yangtze River Dead Zone
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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One of every 15 people in the world relies on China’s Yangtze River, the third largest river on Earth. How big is it? Well, people used to say the ...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: May 28, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Global Air Pollution
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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When it comes to air pollution, every little particulate has a green card. It can just board the next wind current and take a ride to greener pastu...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: May 28, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Doing Right by the Right Whale
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The Marine Mammal Protection Act celebrated its 35th birthday recently. Thanks to that legislation, more marine mammals have also celebrated birthd...

Bought by KMXT and KOSU


  • Added: Apr 28, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
One Story of Disability Care in New Mexico
From: Rogi Riverstone
Series: KUNM News
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Interview with a single mom of two developmentally and physically challenged daughters on her struggles with the medical profession and the Childre...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2009
  • Length: 11:27
Green Planning
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Ocean dead zones. Air and water pollution worldwide. All this bad news is enough to cause “Eco-phobia.”

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Feb 25, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Vultures Critically Endangered
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
It seemed like the right thing to do at the time. In India, tens of thousands of cows die each year. In the late 1980s, India's largely Hindu popul...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Oct 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Cleanup After War
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The toll that war takes on human life and property is widely known. But we don't hear much about the devastating effects war has on wildlife and wi...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Remembering Charlotte, In The Rain
From: Susan Barrett Price
Series: Youth Epiphanies
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Gender issues are one of childhood's mysteries. We look back and go hmm...

Bought by WGDR and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Sep 11, 2008
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 2
Keeping Sea Lice in Check
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Remember elementary school when the nurse checked everyone's head for lice? Now, it's fish farmers who need to keep sea lice in check.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1