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AMOS 21.167: Why We Choose to Listen to Sad Music, 8/23/2021
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Why We Choose to Listen to Sad Music

  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
GN_6.26_ Playing For Power
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
“Play for Power” charging swing sets generate power for commuters.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:19
GN_6.42_ Hedonistic Sustainability
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Hedonistic Sustainability is the idea that living sustainably should be enjoyable for all.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:38
GN_5.21_SeaMusic
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 5
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
In an effort to raise awareness to a shrinking sea and call the sea back, Uzbekistan held its first electronic music festival on this ancient ocean...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_5.20_OceanFriendship
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 5
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If Beluga whales treat a Narwhal like he’s been one of their own, who’s to say he isn’t?

  • Added: Feb 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_4.39_AnimalLove
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
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Animals love each other too.

  • Added: Aug 24, 2018
  • Length: 02:30
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
"Moana" Making Waves Around the Globe
From: Heidi Chang
Caption: Moana and Maui sail toward land in this concept drawing for the movie, Credit: Walt Disney Studios
Disney’s latest animated movie, “Moana,” is riding a wave of popularity around the globe. Nominated for two Academy Awards this year, Native Hawaii...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 28, 2017
  • Length: 03:14
  • Purchases: 1
Spooky Shearwaters
From: BirdNote
Caption: Wedge-tailed Shearwater, Credit: Duncan Wright
Some early sailors, visiting remote Pacific islands, surely feared that the ungodly wailing on shore meant they had been tricked to the gates of He...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WETD, and WKCC


  • Added: Oct 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 3
When Starlings Cheat
From: BirdNote
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When Hank Williams wrote Your Cheatin' Heart, birds probably weren't on his mind. But researchers have found evidence of what we might call "infide...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WETD, WKCC, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Crows' Night Roost
From: BirdNote
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Have you noticed groups of crows flying overhead in the late afternoon, wheeling and diving? These are American Crows with a purpose. They're heade...

Bought by WOUB, WMUU-LP, KKWE Niijii Radio, WETD, and WKCC


  • Added: Oct 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
Geese in V-formation
From: BirdNote
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Autumn … and geese fly high overhead in V-formation. But what about that V-formation, angling outward through the sky? This phenomenon – a kind of ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Prairie Public, WETD, and WKCC


  • Added: Oct 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 4
Meet the Blue Jay
From: BirdNote
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If we had to pick one bird’s voice to symbolize our Eastern woodlands, the Blue Jay’s voice would likely be it. And as a frequent visitor to back y...

Bought by KRPS, WMUU-LP, KKWE Niijii Radio, WETD, and WKCC


  • Added: Oct 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
What the Pacific Wren Hears
From: BirdNote
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What does the Pacific Wren hear in a song? It's a long story. What we hear as a blur of sound, the bird hears as a precise sequence of sounds, the ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WETD, and WKCC


  • Added: Oct 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 3
Tree Swallow Roost
From: BirdNote
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As the sun sets over the Connecticut River, as many as 300,000 Tree Swallows gather on the wing in one huge, tightly choreographed flock. With dusk...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WETD, and WKCC


  • Added: Oct 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 3
Cedar Waxwings - Sleek and Handsome
From: BirdNote
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When courting in spring, male and female Cedar Waxwings communicate with distinctly different calls and, perched side by side, often pass back and ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WETD, and WKCC


  • Added: Oct 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Demise of the Passenger Pigeon
From: BirdNote
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On September 1, 1914, Martha, the last known Passenger Pigeon, died in the Cincinnati Zoo. It’s hard to believe there were billions of Passenger Pi...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WMUU-LP, New Hampshire Public Radio, WETD, and WKCC


  • Added: Oct 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
Nighttime Flights of Songbirds
From: BirdNote
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Some cloudless night in September, when the air is clear, you may see birds flying across the yellow face of the moon! September is peak migration ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KKWE Niijii Radio, WETD, and WKCC


  • Added: Oct 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 4
Ravens and Crows - Who's Who?
From: BirdNote
Caption: American Crow (left) and Common Raven, Credit: © Tom Grey
Is that big black bird a crow or a raven? How can you tell? Ravens (seen right here) often travel in pairs, while crows (left) are seen in larger g...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WETD, WKCC, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 4
Pet Friendly Gardening
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A fact filled weekly reminder to all pet owners of the things that you can be doing for your pets. Your host Fagan Sanchez is a member of SPOT (Sav...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2013
  • Length: 02:14
Children’s Theatre Goes Green
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Kermit the Frog always said, “It’s not easy being green.” But like him, another group of actors has discovered it can be popular. Especially with c...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Sep 27, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Maine Coast, Oregon Sky
From: Deborah Begel
Series: Calling America: Give Us Your Stories, Poems & Essays
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A journey to the edges of land and sea

  • Added: Nov 12, 2008
  • Length: 03:30
How Place Shapes Us
From: Deborah Begel
Series: Calling America: Give Us Your Stories, Poems & Essays
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From Hawaiia, a tropical canvas.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2008
  • Length: 03:58
Green Actors Take to the Road
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Kermit the Frog always said, "It's not easy being green." But like him, another group of actors has discovered it can be popular. Especially with c...

  • Added: May 30, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
Syriana Goes Carbon Neutral
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2006 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
"Syriana," a political thriller about the oil industry, has become the first "carbon neutral" film. The producers offset 100 percent of the carbon ...

Bought by KMXT, KOSU, and WEPS


  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3