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Living Planet 09/13/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Given Half a Chance - The dilemma of our times — our fast-moving, convenient lifestyles are polluting the planet and he...

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


  • Added: Sep 12, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
554-Martian Rolling Stones
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Imagine how strange and wonderful it would be to witness such an event. When the impacting object hit it produced huge boulders, which held loose...

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


  • Added: Sep 06, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
553-Exploring The Far Side
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Chinese, Chang'e 4 made a soft landing on the far side of the Moon where it is impossible to have direct radio communications with the Earth. I...

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


  • Added: Sep 01, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
551-Exploding Space Rocks
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In 2018 there were 15 Meteorite Fall Events for which observers saw a fireball streaking across the sky which then led to the discovery of pieces o...

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


  • Added: Aug 16, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
IE: Inside Europe, 8/16/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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This week on the show: Italy's Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini's 'Beach Tour' . Salvini's call for a swift no-confidence vote is rejected by...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
Living Planet 08/09/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Seeing the forest for the trees - This week on Living Planet, we take a look at forests and how we use land. What benef...

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


  • Added: Aug 09, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
IE: Inside Europe, 8/2/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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This week on the show: Britain ramps up preparations for a no-deal Brexit; The new UK PM Boris Johnson tours Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
549-Weirdest Star
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently the Kepler Spacecraft found that a catalogue star HD 139139 now nicknamed the "Random Transiter" had 28 apparently random sharp narrow di...

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


  • Added: Aug 01, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
World in Progress 08/01/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: No room for complacency - As the fighting dies down in some parts of Syria, we travel to the war-torn country to meet ...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
548-Dragonfly
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In our solar system the most exotic body which contains the complex organic molecules necessary for life is Saturn's Moon Titan. NASA's Dragonfly...

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


  • Added: Jul 26, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
547-Impact Mars
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A given piece of ground on Mars receives several times more space rock impacts than a similar sized area on Earth. Perhaps, in the future the Marti...

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


  • Added: Jul 19, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Living Planet 07/19/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Life's a beach - Summer is a time of sun, sea, and sand. But sand isn't just the stuff of beach holidays — we hear how ...

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


  • Added: Jul 18, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
Living Planet 07/12/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: A rare breed - We will hear stories about different species in the animal kingdom: nutria, pangolins, the golden lance...

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


  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Living Planet 07/05/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: It's getting hot in here! - Dangerous heat waves and raging wildfires across Europe and Alaska have destroyed huge areas...

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


  • Added: Jul 05, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 5
Living Planet 06/28/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Diving deep - We visit the Pescadero Basin off Mexico's Pacific coast and shipwrecks in the cold waters of the Baltic Se...

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


  • Added: Jun 28, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
545-Celestial Congestion
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Imagine being under a clear natural night sky, with no moon, waiting to see stars down to the horizon, the Milky Way, star clusters, planets, the z...

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


  • Added: Jun 28, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
IE: Inside Europe, 6/28/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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This week on the show: Climate change and Europe's searing heatwave. The Czech government survives a no-confidence vote against the country's PM. ...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
544-Missing
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Statistically, asteroid hunters are thought to have discovered 90 to 95% of the Earth approaching asteroids larger than about 3,000 feet in diamete...

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


  • Added: Jun 21, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
543-Asteroid Zoo
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In 2018 Asteroid Hunters discovered 1839 previously unknown space rocks as they passed through our celestial neighborhood. The largest and most dan...

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


  • Added: Jun 14, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Living Planet 06/07/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Challenging the status quo - We'll meet the Indian fishermen's wives who flexed their muscles to start their own rowing-...

Bought by WRGY, KRZA, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Jun 06, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
542-Toughest Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An asteroid has been discovered that comes very near to the Sun where it receives 12.6 times the radiation that heats the planet Mercury's surface...

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


  • Added: May 31, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Living Planet 05/31/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Time for a change of diet - How might Hazelnuts be damaging the planet and its residents? What about sardines? On this ...

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


  • Added: May 30, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
541-Most Dangerous in 2018
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Fortunately, on its current path, the most dangerous asteroid discovered in 2018 cannot come closer than 12.5 times the Moon's distance to humanity...

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


  • Added: May 25, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Living Planet 05/24/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Life and Death - We're talking about the environmental impacts of being born, as well as dying. What strain does our cur...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and WFIU


  • Added: May 23, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
540-Loneliest Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Being a near Earth asteroid is already a lonely existence since the paths of these small space rocks seldom bring them near any other material obje...

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


  • Added: May 17, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8