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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
Corneal blindness affects millions worldwide. A husband-and-wife team at the University of Pittsburgh has been working toward the dream of regrowin...
- Added: Jun 08, 2016
- Length: 13:23
In this multilayered soundscape, the University of Pittsburgh's Sarah Ross explains the emerging neurobiology of itch, the least understood of our ...
- Added: May 10, 2016
- Length: 08:25
- Purchases: 3
Cloud seeding -- intervening in clouds to squeeze out precipitation -- is done all over the world. But it's not an exact science; we still have muc...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, The Allegheny Front: Reporting on the Environment, and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 20, 2015
- Length: 09:38
- Purchases: 3
This river is a tributary of the mighty Amazon. It snakes through one of the world’s most treacherous jungles and it’s where President Teddy Roosev...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Oct 29, 2015
- Length: 09:59
- Purchases: 1
British naturalist and jungle survivor of Borneo, Amazonia and the Congo, O’Hanlon sets off this time on a commercial fishing ship in the harsh wat...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Dec 02, 2014
- Length: 09:56
- Purchases: 2
The gap between science in the U.S. and Africa is as wide as the ocean between them. But a nonprofit startup is trying to be a good Samaritan with ...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Sep 20, 2011
- Length: 04:19
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Mar 23, 2010
- Length: 05:10
The idea of keeping shopping close to home is picking up speed, with local foods increasing in popularity and availability. Harder to understand mi...
- Added: Jan 06, 2010
- Length: 06:37
A mysterious bacterial infection is sickening the West Coast's sea lions.
- Added: Oct 14, 2008
- Length: 05:03
It's moving day for a shark, penguins, and millions of scientific specimens
- Added: Jun 18, 2008
- Length: 05:16
Scientists study if if true that women like men with deeper voices
- Added: Jan 04, 2008
- Length: 03:10
- Purchases: 2
Who teaches teachers? Learning astronomy at the McDonald Observatory in Texas.
- Added: Nov 19, 2007
- Length: 09:45
A woman who usually does her "birding" in New York City's Central Park shares some of her reactions after experiencing the Sandhill Crane migration...
- Added: Apr 15, 2007
- Length: 02:51
A Hong Kong researcher creates a fabric that cleans itself in sunlight.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jul 01, 2005
- Length: 03:22
- Purchases: 2
