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Literally blocking out the sun may sound extreme, but scientists are debating whether using dust particles to reflect sunlight away from the Earth ...
- Added: May 03, 2024
- Length: 03:57
Talking about climate change is never easy. Today, we get some tips from five experts on how to do it gracefully.
- Added: Apr 29, 2024
- Length: 04:35
We’ve celebrated Earth Day in the United States for more than 50 years. Today, we’re taking a look at what made the first Earth Day in 1970 such a ...
- Added: Apr 22, 2024
- Length: 04:00
Last week we learned that individuals’ home water consumption doesn’t really make a dent in the water supply, and the benefit of personal water con...
- Added: Apr 22, 2024
- Length: 03:37
Saving water might not seem all that important in a humid climate like Rhode Island. But actually, there are plenty of reasons why water conservati...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Apr 22, 2024
- Length: 03:26
- Purchases: 1
Today, we’re taking a look at how we dispose of our food. Next time you’re scraping a plate, should that food go into compost, your sink disposal, ...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Apr 22, 2024
- Length: 03:32
- Purchases: 1
Today’s question comes from a listener here in Rhode Island. They’ve been following local efforts to pass a bottle bill- that’s where you get money...
Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Raven Radio, WRFA-LP, and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Mar 11, 2024
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
Author Douglas Wood talks about his latest work "A Wild Path"
- Added: Dec 07, 2023
- Length: 09:04
oday, we’re talking about a new study from the University of Rhode Island about microplastics in the Narragansett Bay. We look into what the findin...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Oct 31, 2023
- Length: 03:38
- Purchases: 1
Author Dianna Hunter talks about her first novel "Clouded Waters"
- Added: Oct 05, 2023
- Length: 10:03
World-renowned primatologist Professor Frans de Waal explores the nature of sex and gender among our cousins the apes, and how gender diversity is ...
- Added: Sep 12, 2023
- Length: 28:30
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, we look through the lenses of creativity, environment, and sustainability at what to do about vacant ...
- Added: Aug 17, 2023
- Length: 28:44
We did it. My family finally bought an electric car. What’s it like? Should you get one too? Here to help me explain is my husband, Ryan T Conaty.
Bought by PRX Remix, Raven Radio, WRFA-LP, and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Aug 07, 2023
- Length: 03:48
- Purchases: 4
You’ve probably heard of fungi, whether it’s mold in your bathroom or mushrooms on your favorite hiking trail, but recently, I’ve been hearing that...
Bought by Raven Radio, WRFA-LP, and KMXT
- Added: May 01, 2023
- Length: 03:39
- Purchases: 3
Tune in to "Sounds Jewish" for Jewish music from around the globe urging us to approach the natural world with gemilut chassadim – or loving kindne...
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Apr 21, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Today, we have a question from a listener named Susan. She wants to know about gift wrapping: “Is it better for the environment to wrap Christmas g...
- Added: Dec 19, 2022
- Length: 03:24
- Purchases: 2
We get a lot of questions about recycling, asking what to do with aluminum cans, glass, paper, or even plastic. All this has me wondering- when did...
- Added: Nov 10, 2022
- Length: 03:33
- Purchases: 2
Paul J. Radomski talks about his new book “Walleye – A Beautiful Fish of the Dark”
- Added: Sep 29, 2022
- Length: 10:24
Nowadays, many athletic fields have been converted from natural grass to artificial turf. Which made us wonder- which option is better for the envi...
Bought by WRFA-LP and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Sep 14, 2022
- Length: 03:25
- Purchases: 2
The photos are mine of the Mirabilis longiflora flowers and Manduca sexta, the Carolina sphinx moth and tobacco hornworm. Note the seven streamline...
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 04:21
Turkey vultures (Cathartes aura) are wonderful and lots of folks agree. The little town of Bisbee in the Mule Mountains of Cochise County, Arizona ...
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 04:29
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, we revisit KVSC’s broadcast from the opening day of the 2022 Minnesota State Fair. Your “fried radio...
- Added: Aug 30, 2022
- Length: 30:00
This is the time of year when you see desert millipedes out and about on muggy overcast days. Sometimes even crossing the two lane blacktop roads n...
- Added: Aug 12, 2022
- Length: 04:03
The Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas face a petrochemical and fracked gas export boom. Super-heat-charged hurricanes strike almost every year. As ...
- Added: Jul 25, 2022
- Length: 58:00
San Miguelito (Antigonon leptopus) is quite the Mexican native plant. I read that it’s found in habitat not only in Sonora and Chihuahua and southw...
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 05:08