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National Parks may harbor smog along with their forests and wildlife.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, KRZA, WMMT, WTIP, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jul 26, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: A still from Simon Faithfull's video created at the ARTSail Residency., Credit: Simon Faithfull
On this live streaming radio program, we consider how artists, curators, architects and writers are responding to climate change in South Florida. ...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2018
  • Length: 52:45
Caption: Dan Egan, Credit: W.W. Norton & Company
A new book by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Dan Egan examines Great Lakes history and current issues facing the region.

Bought by WCMU Michigan, WBFO, North Country Public Radio, and WKSU


  • Added: Mar 24, 2017
  • Length: :55
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: View of Lake Michigan shoreline from Empire Bluff, Credit: National Park Service
Although Waukesha, Wisc., lies outside the Great Lakes basin, it wants to draw water from Lake Michigan because its wells are contaminated with rad...

Bought by Interlochen Public Radio, WCPN, WILL, WXXI Rochester, and WCMU Michigan


  • Added: Jun 16, 2016
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 5
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Bloomington residents have long been concerned about anything that will mar the natural beauty of the city and its neighborhoods.

  • Added: May 09, 2016
  • Length: 08:04
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The City of Bloomington's Department of Economic and Sustainable Development has entered its website rentrocket.org into an MIT sponsored competit...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2016
  • Length: 08:04
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Advocates for the preservation of Indiana forests have argued for years that the state is allowing too much logging to occur in state forests. And ...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 09:00
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Last night a group of experts on environmental policy converged to debate the merits of the EPA’s Clean Power Plan. Just last week, the Supreme Cou...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2016
  • Length: 09:42
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In May 1975, Popular Mechanics published an article called “Cities In The Sky”, about plans for space colonies by 1995. Flash forward forty years a...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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Imagine waiting to catch a train. You show up at the station and wait for the familiar clanking of wheels and squealing of brakes. This time, howev...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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We're getting closer and closer to making fusion power a reality - limitless energy created by fusing hydrogen into helium, the same process that p...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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Physicists are approaching closer and closer to one of the Holy Grails of modern science: creating self-sustaining fusion reactions on Earth, and u...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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Taking the listeners back into the early history of the universe, this introductory episode explains what fusion is, how it powers stars, and how i...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: May 15, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Monroe County residents who live near the future path of Interstate 69 are reporting their local waterways are being contaminated. In recent weeks ...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2013
  • Length: 08:05
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WFHB correspondent Norm Holy speaks to Indiana Department of Natural Resources Property Manager Jim Allen, about the ecological issues surrounding ...

  • Added: May 24, 2013
  • Length: 08:35
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The City of Moore, Oklahoma was hit by a tornado at 3:17 pm yesterday afternoon. As emergency crews continue to search for victims in the destructi...

  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 09:51
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A class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids, or neonics, was recently implicated in the large numbers of honeybee deaths beekeepers have been exp...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 07:57
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Two potentially dangerous chemicals have been discovered at the Johnson Hardware Building on North Madison Street in downtown Bloomington. The vapo...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2013
  • Length: 08:58
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The drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing -- or fracking -- has drawn increased scrutiny around the United State and the world in recent y...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2013
  • Length: 08:41
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Mick Harrison, environmental and public interest lawyer discusses the pending litigation regarding the I-69 project with EcoReport's Lucille Bertuc...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2012
  • Length: 08:52
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A federal lawsuit is seeking to keep genetically modified crops out of National Wildlife Refuges across the Midwest, including the three refuges in...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2012
  • Length: 08:59
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The Indiana Department of Environmental Management is preparing to submit to the federal government its updated list of hundreds of so-called “impa...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2012
  • Length: 08:46
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Bloomington's 2nd Annual Bike Summit was held in City Hall last Thursday. The summit was, according to a city press release, "part of an on-going e...

  • Added: May 15, 2012
  • Length: 09:13
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The development of Interstate 69 through Indiana is divided into six sections from the Indiana/Kentucky boarder up to Indianapolis. This week, the ...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 12:13
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In today’s feature report, Lucille Bertuccio interviews Attorney Mick Harrison and founding member of Citizens for Appropriate Rural Roads, Brian G...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2012
  • Length: 08:29