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Caption: Pronghorn on the Marfa Plateau. , Credit: Mike Sullins/TPWD
Pronghorn have perfect camouflage, unmatched speed, and can spot a predator miles away. But that hasn't protected them from a mysterious population...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Feb 09, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
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As all hay-fever sufferers will tell you, this has been a bad year for pollen. What's all that pollen good for besides making you miserable?

Bought by KENW and KENW


  • Added: Feb 04, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Fish tanks inside Dexter National Fish Hatchery., Credit: Megan Wilde
Without the Dexter National Fish Hatchery and Technology Center, several desert fish species might have disappeared from the Chihuahuan Desert regi...

Bought by KENW and KENW


  • Added: Jan 29, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: A sandhill crane flies over Bosque del Apache., Credit: Megan Wilde
Every winter, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico hosts a spectacular congregation of snow geese and sandhill cranes. Why do t...

Bought by KUPR low power FM and KENW


  • Added: Jan 26, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Biologists attach a tracking collar to a blindfolded desert bighorn sheep. , Credit: Kamila Forson
When Elephant Mountain gets too crowded with desert bighorn sheep, and it’s time to start a new herd in Big Bend Ranch State Park, how do you move ...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Jan 26, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Writer J. Frank Dobie wished he could be sung to sleep and woken by a coyote chorus every day. But not everyone regards coyotes so amiably. Who are...

Bought by WTIP and KENW


  • Added: Jan 09, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Winter brings hordes of handsome cedar waxwings to our region, where they’ll throng our junipers and devour every berry they can find. What makes t...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Jan 04, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Pine trees are much more than symbols of Christmas and sources of timber. They serve up a smorgasbord for many wild animals and insects. Who dines ...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Jan 04, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Horned lizards get water from the ants they eat., Credit: Cathryn Hoyt
Animals have adapted to surviving with little or no water during the Chihuahuan Desert's dry winter and spring. How do they do it?

Bought by KENW and KENW


  • Added: Dec 21, 2010
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
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A special effects wizard pulls back the curtain. Coming up, the future of 3D printing… and bullies two-point-oh.

  • Added: Nov 30, 2010
  • Length: 28:59
Caption: Giant cane dominates the muddy banks of the Rio Grande in many places., Credit: Megan Wilde
Sediment is slowly choking the Rio Grande in the Big Bend region of Texas, causing more frequent floods and making it easier for invasive plants to...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Nov 19, 2010
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Ron Frost discussed the scientific and religious debate over evolution

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WRNC-LP, and KMXT


  • Added: Nov 17, 2010
  • Length: 22:23
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Quaking aspens in Big Bend National Park, Credit: James Zech
With their towering white trunks and fluttering leaves, quaking aspens are icons of the Rocky Mountains. Yet every fall, aspen stands paint West Te...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Nov 11, 2010
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: An infected little brown bat., Credit: Ryan von Linden/New York Department of Environmental Conservation
A fungal disease has been destroying bat colonies in the northeastern United States and is now spreading south and west across the country. What is...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Nov 05, 2010
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: A Rio Grande silvery minnow, Credit: Aimee Roberson/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
These tiny fish disappeared from Texas almost fifty years ago. But today, silvery minnows swim again in the Big Bend reach of the Rio Grande. What ...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Nov 05, 2010
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Jesse Cohen discussed the best American science writing in 2010.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KMXT


  • Added: Oct 14, 2010
  • Length: 25:23
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Poet Philip Schultz
Host Francesca Rheannon spends the hour with poet Philip Schultz talking about his poetry, his method of teaching writing — and his dyslexia. His l...

Bought by WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Aug 11, 2010
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
David Lovering discussed his endeavors as a scientific phenomenalist and as the drummer for the Pixies.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KMXT


  • Added: Jul 14, 2010
  • Length: 25:07
  • Purchases: 2
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In a new, entertaining 2 min. weekly module, former Time Magazine health journalist Janice Horowitz, provides the cure for contradictory medical news.

  • Added: Jun 30, 2010
  • Length: 02:02
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In a new, entertaining 2 min. weekly module, former Time Magazine health journalist Janice Horowitz, provides the cure for contradictory medical news.

  • Added: Jun 30, 2010
  • Length: 02:02
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What would life be like without a sixth sense? Check out more in Aaron's blog www.minnesotabrown.com.

  • Added: Jun 28, 2010
  • Length: 03:45
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In a new, entertaining 2 min. weekly module, former Time Magazine health journalist Janice Horowitz, provides the cure for contradictory medical news.

  • Added: Apr 28, 2010
  • Length: 02:01
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In a new, entertaining 2 min. weekly module, former Time Magazine health journalist Janice Horowitz, provides the cure for contradictory medical news.

  • Added: Apr 28, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
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On this edition, we’ll hear part two of a documentary called Heavy Weather, produced by freelancer Barbara Bernstein. She’ll look at how climate c...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Len Fisher discussed the Perfect Swarm.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KMXT


  • Added: Apr 14, 2010
  • Length: 27:52
  • Purchases: 2