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Atlantic salmon numbers are dropping all over the world. In the US, they can only be found in seven rivers. All of them are in Maine.
- Added: Aug 07, 2013
- Length: 05:54
Fresh water as a resource is under constant threat by over-consumption, toxins, pollutants and waste from industrial and agricultural production. I...
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 05:06
100 years ago this week, the thermometer in Death Valley, California, hit the highest temperature ever recorded anywhere in the world: 134°F. This ...
Bought by WUFT, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WRIR, Louisville Public Media, WTJU and more
- Added: Jul 12, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 6
America is a pet-owning nation. Over 60% of households, in fact, possess some sort of furry or feathered friend, and we spend over $50 billion a ye...
Bought by WNED Buffalo, KTNA, WFAE, WXXI Rochester, Northeast Indiana Public Radio and more
- Added: Jul 05, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 12
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Host Brian Balogh talks with sociologist Karen O’Neill about the federal government’s move into flood control in 1917 – as landowners along the Mis...
Bought by WOUB, Radio Newark, KHNS, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 17, 2013
- Length: 05:29
- Purchases: 4
Food guy Michael Pollan’s new book is “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation.” He is a personable, well-spoken walking encyclopedia of Ameri...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Jun 14, 2013
- Length: 09:59
- Purchases: 2
The Mississippi River is central to the American landscape and imagination. And for centuries, it has served as a battlefield in which our most com...
Bought by WUFT, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, XRAY.fm, KBRP Community Radio, KUOW and more
- Added: Jun 14, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 10
For years, a mysterious “colony collapse disorder” has been killing honeybees across the nation. This year, commercial beekeepers have reported los...
Bought by KENW and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: May 07, 2013
- Length: 02:27
- Purchases: 2
WTIP's Bob Carter spoke recently with Dr. Lorena M. Rios Mendoza, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Superior, about her research into poll...
- Added: Apr 29, 2013
- Length: 15:42
When you think of modern, green, public transportation, a city that likely comes to mind is Portland, Oregon. Portland has built a reputation worl...
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 08:45
Biologist Peter Vitousek discusses the serious impacts humankind has had on the nitrogen cycle and how that relates to our food system. He expands ...
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 26:12
Former US Vice President Al Gore is perhaps the best known poster boy for climate change. Both a winner of a Nobel prize along with an Oscar, he ta...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 09:43
- Purchases: 1
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 1 in 88 children have been identified with an autism spectrum disorder (...
- Added: Feb 04, 2013
- Length: 28:00
James Wells and Nicole Brown of Whatcom County explain the Scoping process of the Environmental Impact Statement for the Cherry Point Coal Terminal...
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 27:59
Ginny Wolff speaks with Ross Macfarlane, Sr. Advisor for Climate Solutions, about coal export in Washington and Oregon, particularly the terminal p...
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 27:58
Curious about how the Dept of Energy is spending your money? Where did all those billions in Recovery Act money go? What financial incentives are t...
- Added: Dec 29, 2012
- Length: 21:26
Energy policy expert Kate Gordon of The Center for the Next Generation talks about what state and local governments, as well as Congress and the Pr...
- Added: Dec 29, 2012
- Length: 28:18
Average Americans are painfully aware of the challenges we face as a nation – joblessness, failing schools, declining health, intractable poverty, ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 19, 2012
- Length: 28:54
- Purchases: 1
Paul Ehrlich, author of the iconic book The Population Bomb, reflects on the history of environmentalism and his gloomy outlook for the future. [Ep...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 46:21
Richard Alley, a climate researcher and the host of PBS’s Earth: The Operators’ Manual, discusses rapid changes in Earth’s climate through history ...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 27:55
Michael Shellenberger addresses climate change through the eyes of his Breakthrough Institute and offers up some ideas that some see as controversi...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 19:48
Literary critic and pop culture enthusiast Ursula Heise dissects environmental storytelling and its relation to science… both real and fiction. [Se...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 34:06
In this interview, we learn from James Holland Jones how diseases emerge and spread as humans encroach into the wilderness, and how the patterns wi...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 37:41
Peter Kareiva, the chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy, discusses his definition of nature and challenges the assertion that nature is fragi...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 29:43
Spirited biologist Rodolfo Dirzo discusses the complex interplay of climate change with other systems, and his personal relation to the Anthropocen...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 46:56
