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This week on the show: Toxic times - How clean is our snow? Is it safe to eat for dogs? Scientists have found traces of dangerous substances ...

Bought by KRZA, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WFIU


  • Added: Feb 21, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
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This week on the show: Battery powered - We take a look at lithium-ion batteries — how they are both necessary to ending our dependence on foss...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and WFIU


  • Added: Feb 14, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on World in Progress: Shock after shock - As expanding locust swarms threaten the food security of millions of people in East Afri...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Under threat - We have stories of activists. In one case, fighting against hydropower, despite the fact that it has hel...

Bought by KRZA, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WFIU


  • Added: Feb 07, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 3
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This week on the show: Do I scare you? - "Careful, he's Chinese." It was a throwaway comment whispered in a German pedestrian zone. But it jo...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Feb 05, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Invasion of species - East Africa is dealing with the worst locust infestation in decades. No one knows why millions ...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and WFIU


  • Added: Jan 31, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on the show: Ticking time bombs - One year after the Brumadinho dam collapse in Brazil that killed 270 people and wreaked havroc on t...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Jan 24, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In 2019, asteroid hunters set a new record by discovering 2,433 Earth approaching objects including 85 which could potentially become a threat to p...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, KRZA and more


  • Added: Jan 23, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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This week on the show: In conflict - Active war zones don't just leave scars on the people involved in them or civilians in their path, confl...

Bought by WFIU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and KRZA


  • Added: Jan 20, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
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This week on the show: Wildfires and reforestation - We've got trees on the brain in light of devastating wildfires raging across Australia. W...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and WFIU


  • Added: Jan 10, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Recently, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin's backyard all sky camera in Tucson, Arizona recorded a brilliant fireball meteor which took...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jan 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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We're easing you into the New Year with a gorgeous listen on this week’s Living Planet - a trip to New Zealand's Waipoua Forest. It's one of the o...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KRZA, and WFIU


  • Added: Jan 03, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
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This week on the show: Farmers agains cement factories in Indonesia - Villagers in the Kendeng mountains of Java fight for their livelihoods as...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Happiness, fear and our atmosphere - Our boiling hot planetary neighbor, Venus, might have once been similar to Earth...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jan 01, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Recently a group of high inclination asteroids hiding in Jupiter's shadow have been identified. Encounters with the giant planet's gravity could c...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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This week on the show: Best of 2019 - As the year draws to a close, we bring you our favorite reports and look back at some of the big news ...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and WFIU


  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on the show: Italy's new anti-populist 'Sardines' movement shakes up the country's politics. EU lawmakers demand the immediate resignati...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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At its closest point, a small space rock comes to only 1/3 of Mercury's average distance from the solar surface and receives 9 times the amount of...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW and more


  • Added: Dec 13, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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This week on the show: Cities vs. climate change - As the UN's climate change conference COP 25 wraps up in Madrid, we take a look at how ci...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Drama and division at NATO’s 70th birthday party. Tensions escalate between Greece and Turkey. A damning assessment of pres...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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This week on the show: We visit two very different parts of the world where mining is raising big concerns among local communities: In Australia,...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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October of 2019 was a record breaking month for my team the Catalina Sky Survey during which we discovered 240 Earth approaching asteroids. This di...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, KENW, WTIP, WLPR and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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This week on the show: Toxic flow - We look at river systems under pressure and what that means for biodiversity; human health and the livel...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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In ancient times, Aboriginal people in southwestern Australia quarried fine grained rock on an ancient hill called Barlangi Rock to make very sharp...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: Nov 22, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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This week on the show: The Invisibles - We explore ‘invisible’ polluters – noise, light and air. And we visit an exhibition in Berlin, question...

Bought by KRZA, WRGY, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WFIU


  • Added: Nov 22, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4