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Living Planet 09/16/22

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW

This week on the show: Can't sleep? You're not alone. A recent report highlights how much sleep we'll lose each year as temperatures continue to ri...

Bought by WXDU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and Radio Kansas

Cactus Wrens and Ironwood Trees

From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey

Cactus wrens were one of the first Sonoran Desert birds I learned when I arrived in Tucson to go to the University of Arizona. They are such rascal...

Bearing Witness

From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey

This is Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey. Cloudy Cold days these days. Petey talks about lifesaving snow in the desert, the beauty of Sandhill C...

Holiday Show

From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey

I have a bunch of photos from Christmas tree hunts and most of them are 35 mm slides. These few here were taken over the last several years. I alwa...

Holy Moments...Sacred Places and Things

From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey

I was reading a Christmas card from some very dear friends and in the hand written portion of the card it mentioned this season as being the “holie...

Yerba Porosa

From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey

There are around 30 species of Porophyllum, the majority of which are found in Mexico and southward. Around me in the borderlands of Arizona Sonora...

Monsoon Belief System

From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey

I spent so much time jabbering about my conversion to a desert rat and monsoon believer that I left out some fun stuff. Native bees that buzz poll...

Solidago Missourinsis- Goldenrod

From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey

I grew up in Kentucky where the state flower is goldenrod. The particular species that has that honor is Solidago gigantea. I wonder how it was cho...

Stinging Serpent

From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey

I like the phrase in Arizona Flora about the Loasa family Loasaceae ; it is “remarkable for the diversity and peculiar structure of the hairs.” And...

Anne-Laure Blanche

From: KXCI
Series: Thesis Thursday

Anne-Laure is a rising senior at the University of Arizona double majoring in Natural Resources (emphasis in Wildlife Conservation and Management) ...

479-Comet Catalina

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Comet C/2018 M1 (Catalina) is eternal in the sense that it will likely wander the vast space between the stars in our Milky Way Galaxy until the e...

Bought by KGLP, KENW, WLPR , KKRN, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more

445-Not So Secret

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

A partnership of humans and computers will help to minimize the damage when asteroid hunters find a space rock with our number on it.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KKRN, KRWG, and KUPR low power FM

380-Southern Colleagues

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

In this age in which science is being advanced by large teams of scientists with budgets in the millions to billions of dollars, it is gratifying t...

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

A Waning Delta

From: Stephen Baker
Series: Water is a Many Splendor'ed Thing

The plight of the Delta Smelt is currently dependant on mankind’s desire and ability to revive the health of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in Ca...

Butterflies, Toads and Fish

From: Stephen Baker
Series: Water is a Many Splendor'ed Thing

Value of our estuaries and other inland water bodies are recognized while fishing, boating, swimming or viewing nature from a great vantage spot. T...

Everybody Needs to Get Involved

From: Stephen Baker
Series: Water is a Many Splendor'ed Thing

For those of you that haven't noticed, water conflict is a topic that keeps on showing up in our lives. Each time water demand bumps up against wat...

Build it and Then What?

From: Stephen Baker
Series: Water is a Many Splendor'ed Thing

He saw it coming. John thought that water would not be an issue but the County and State of Washington had not quite worked out how groundwater tha...