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Atlas for the End of the World: Urbanization Joins Conservation
From: Teosson Wells
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“It's the end of the world where we thought nature was an infinite resource and we could exploit it without consequence,” Professor Richard Weller ...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 57:07
380-Southern Colleagues
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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


  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
379-Flying Mud Balls
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The most common type of asteroids are likely to have started out as giant convecting mud balls which could still exist at the center of large aster...

Bought by KENW, WEJP-LP 107.1, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WLPR , KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
A Waning Delta
From: Stephen Baker
Series: Water is a Many Splendor'ed Thing
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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...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2017
  • Length: 04:39
Butterflies, Toads and Fish
From: Stephen Baker
Series: Water is a Many Splendor'ed Thing
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Value of our estuaries and other inland water bodies are recognized while fishing, boating, swimming or viewing nature from a great vantage spot. T...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2017
  • Length: 05:16
Everybody Needs to Get Involved
From: Stephen Baker
Series: Water is a Many Splendor'ed Thing
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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...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2017
  • Length: 04:24
Levees, Let's Get it Done
From: Stephen Baker
Series: Water is a Many Splendor'ed Thing
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All of us remember the consequences of Hurricane Katrina and the super storm that hit New York City in 2012. These climatic conditions are likely t...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2017
  • Length: 04:35
WWII Life in the Navy
From: Stephen Baker
Series: Water is a Many Splendor'ed Thing
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Joining the US Navy at 18, John Baker was called to duty after the United States had been fighting in WWII for three years. His two year experience...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2017
  • Length: 06:02
Build it and Then What?
From: Stephen Baker
Series: Water is a Many Splendor'ed Thing
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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...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2017
  • Length: 05:58
Helping Communities Help Themselves
From: Stephen Baker
Series: Water is a Many Splendor'ed Thing
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What's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear, "Walla Walla?"

  • Added: Jul 29, 2017
  • Length: 06:21
378-Moon Express
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Moon is a destination for human explorers.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WVTF, KKRN, WTIP, KRWG and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
377-Insider
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Large asteroids lurking inside the Earth's orbit can be hard to spot.

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


  • Added: Jul 27, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
Not in Anyone’s Backyard, pushing back on landfill expansion
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The Penobscot Nation lives on the river that shares their name. Just upstream from their island reservation is Juniper Ridge, Maine’s largest landf...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WRIR


  • Added: Jul 23, 2017
  • Length: 13:04
  • Purchases: 2
376-Active Asteroids
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Some asteroids become comets giving rise to beautiful meteor showers.

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


  • Added: Jul 20, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
375-Chelyabinsk Sized
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Small Earth approaching asteroids are part of our environment.

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


  • Added: Jul 20, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
374-Brute
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Large potentially dangerous asteroids are still being discovered.

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


  • Added: Jul 13, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
371-2 Headed Space Worm
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Will Earth evolved Biology allow humans to create sustainable colonies in space, on the Moon, or on Mars?

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KKRN, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jul 06, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
370-Life's Parts
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Astronomers have found the basic ingredients of life in an infant solar system.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, WOUB, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
368-Asteroid Alert
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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NASA's Scout and Sentry software systems allow asteroid hunters to study and keep track of potentially dangerous asteroids.

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KRWG, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
367-Future Impactor
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A 33 foot diameter asteroid has about a 1% chance of impacting the Earth in the distant future.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KRWG, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
366-3 Explorers
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A tiny space rock which can pass closer to us than the communications satellites may have been ejected from our Moon.

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


  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
365-Tabby's Star
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Tabby's star varies in brightness suggesting that it swallowed one or more of it's planets in the very recent past.

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


  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
362-Asteroid Day
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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2017 Asteroid day events are being held at more than 500 hundred locations in 72 countries world wide. Participants at Asteroid Day events are enco...

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KUPR low power FM, WLPR , KENW and more


  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
360-Rolling In
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A small space rock streaks past our home planet.

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


  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
359-Ice World
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An Earth sized icy world has been discovered orbiting a small dim star.

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


  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6

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