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Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Studies at Stanford University have shown that meal worms are able to eat Styrofoam and the enzymes in their guts break it down into something comp...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:24
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A determined New Yorker makes city composting a real thing.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:22
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
The city of Atlanta, Georgia is transforming 7 acres of unused land into the nation's largest food forest.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:36
Caption: Change your focus, change your world.
Living concrete: This biological material has multiple layers that allow for the growth of plants on the outside of a building, without sacrificin...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 1
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At the Chapultepec Botanical Gardens in Mexico City a new kind of foliage is taking over. The Future Forest, created by Danish artist Thomas Dambo,...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2021
  • Length: 02:17
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The New York Botanical Gardens has launched an innovative program to help visitors, new and seasoned, to see nature in a different way—through the ...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 02, 2021
  • Length: 02:18
  • Purchases: 1
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Ethiopia is reforesting its arid landscape with an initiative called "Green Legacy."

  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 02:28
Caption: Change your focus, change your world.
A colony of bees miraculously survives the 2019 Notre Dame fire.

  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 02:18

  • Added: Jan 27, 2020
  • Length: 02:00

  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 02:00

  • Added: Oct 22, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: A Moment of Science
Discovered on Facebook: The Magnificent Sundew

  • Added: Oct 22, 2018
  • Length: 02:00

  • Added: Oct 22, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
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A listener wants to know if skunks are repelled by their own smell.

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


  • Added: Oct 06, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 6

  • Added: Oct 01, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: A Moment of Science
The Butterwort: Ruthless Carnivore of the Plant World

  • Added: Oct 01, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
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A giant insect gobbles up guppies – and other small animals.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, Spokane Public Radio, KENW, and WTIP


  • Added: Sep 25, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Swamp Sparrow, Credit: Robert Lachlan
How a small songbird’s cultural traditions persist for more than a thousand years.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, Spokane Public Radio, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jun 30, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Geese are holing up in the big city during the winter to avoid hunters.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, and KENW


  • Added: Nov 07, 2017
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 4

  • Added: Aug 28, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: Limahuli Garden and Preserve is set in a verdant tropical valley on the north shore of the Hawaiian Island of Kaua`i, Credit: Courtesy National Tropical Botanical Garden
Explore Limahuli Garden and Preserve on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, where scientists believe the legacy of ancient Hawaiian farmers can show the ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 21, 2017
  • Length: 03:09
  • Purchases: 2

  • Added: Feb 06, 2017
  • Length: 02:00

  • Added: Feb 06, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: A Moment of Science
Trees Know When Something Is Eating Them

  • Added: Jan 18, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
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Short "episodes" of The Homestead Radio Hour

  • Added: Apr 04, 2016
  • Length: 28:29