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2024-05-10 Big Plastic: The New Big Oil
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Plastics are everywhere. And while we’ve known for a long time that plastics and our environment aren’t a good mix, it's becoming apparent that the...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 9
240510: Big Plastic: The New Big Oil, 5/10/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Plastics are everywhere. And while we’ve known for a long time that plastics and our environment aren’t a good mix, it's becoming apparent that the...

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 58:56
240419: Artificial Intelligence, Real Climate Impacts , 4/19/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Artificial intelligence can do some pretty amazing things, including for the climate. AI can help optimize the electric grid, make heating and cool...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
Gut Microbes & Hospital Wine
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Feed your head, Grace Slick cried in the song White Rabbit. How about feeding the bacteria in your gut? Beer won’t make you smart. How about wine, ...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2023
  • Length: 56:05
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 20
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Artificial Intelligence -- existential threat to humanity, or just to basic civil rights? Personal DNA testing – you never know what you’ll find. ...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2023
  • Length: 58:54
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 19
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
Caption: Crawford Lake, Credit: David Kattenburg
After years of study, a scientific panel proposes a formal definition of the Anthropocene, naming the spot where humanity’s fingerprints are best o...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2023
  • Length: 58:05
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 18
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Nothing woolly-headed or Utopian about it: A universal, guaranteed basic income. A hundred years later, memories of war that do not fade. And, one ...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:14
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 17
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Humanity’s impact on Planet Earth has a name: the Anthropocene. The start of Earth’s human age can be pinpointed in ice and biological cores, and t...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jul 04, 2023
  • Length: 59:33
  • Purchases: 1
Special Episode - Under Pressure
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
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Jess speaks from her experience conducting deep ocean research to answer questions raised by UCS scientists and staff about the recent disasters of...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 19:00
OutCasting 54x -- Medical transition for trans youth -- part 2 of 2
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting
Caption: Dr. John Steever, Dr. Matthew Oransky, Mt. Sinai Hospital, NYC
What are the factors to consider when young transgender people want to medically transition? OutCaster Lauren talks with Dr. John Steever, a physi...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Nov 30, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
How the Soil Sponge and Essential Biological Workers are Changing the World - EcoJustice Radio
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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Listen to author Didi Pershouse [https://www.didipershouse.com/], founder of the Land & Leadership Initiative [http://www.landandleadership.org], s...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
Materials Discovery through AI with Greg Mulholland of Citrine Informatics
From: Michael Leifman
Series: M4Edge Podcasts
Caption: Greg Mulholland
In our inaugural episode we talk with Greg Mulholland, CEO of Citrine Informatics. Citrine uses Artificial Intelligence to accelerate the discovery...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2019
  • Length: 41:15
Jonathan Coop — At the crossroads of evolution
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes spoke with biologist and botanist Jonathan Coop.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Dec 31, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ocean Literacy: Weather and Climate
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Bray, France, Credit: Stijn te Strake on Unsplash
"The ocean is a major influence on weather and climate." So states the third Ocean Literacy principle, a series of fundamental concepts to help us ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 04, 2018
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
The Earth Optimism Summit
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: April 21 - 23, 2017, Credit: Earth Optimism Summit, Washington, D.C.
In September of 2016, World Ocean Observatory began a collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution's Ocean Portal to promote the Earth Optimism S...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2017
  • Length: 04:42
287-Heavenly Palace
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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China is challenging America's historical preeminence in space exploration. At some point in the future, America may be still trying to get to huma...

Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, Radio Newark, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: Sep 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
273-Hunt for Planet 9
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Evidence is mounting that a Planet 9 exists in the outer region of our solar system.

Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW and more


  • Added: Jul 28, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
The Mature Mind: The Positive Power of the Aging Brain
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Dr. Gene Cohen, author of “The Mature Mind: The Positive Power of the Aging Brain.” His book describes h...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
Air
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Clean air is as valuable as clean water: both are essential requirements for human health and survival. Statistics and data on emissions from burni...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2014
  • Length: 05:10
40-Itokawa A Strange Space Peanut
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Measurements of its rate of spin and shape reveal that the asteroid Itokawa has a very odd structure.

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WKCC and more


  • Added: May 01, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
39-Dash Cams and the Anatomy of An Airburst
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Data obtained from automobile dash cams has enabled scientists to understand the airburst which occurred when a small asteroid entered the Earth's ...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WKCC and more


  • Added: May 01, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Global Partnership for the Oceans
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Global Partnership for the Oceans
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will describe the objectives of the Global Partnership for the Oceans and outline the points...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2014
  • Length: 05:08
16-The Discovery of Comet P/2014 A2 (Hill)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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This piece describes the process of comet discovery.

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WKCC and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
In today's competitive job market, should you have cosmetic procedures to try to look younger?
From: Dueling Docs
Series: Dueling Docs
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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 ne...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2010
  • Length: 02:02
Can stretching make you more prone to injury?
From: Dueling Docs
Series: Dueling Docs
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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.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Mar 29, 2010
  • Length: 02:01
  • Purchases: 1