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Today we’re answering a question that has been on a lot of people’s minds during the COVID-19 quarantine: while we’re limiting trips to the store, ...
- Added: May 26, 2020
- Length: 03:31
- Purchases: 2
Driftnets are fishing nets that have largely fallen out of fashion because they can accidentally catch other marine life. But it's still legal to u...
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- Added: May 26, 2020
- Length: 03:41
- Purchases: 1
Air quality has definitely improved during the pandemic. Air monitoring stations in Rhode Island and the greater Northeast have seen about a 30% de...
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- Added: May 26, 2020
- Length: 03:56
- Purchases: 1
Today we’re going to focus on some positive news — a bright spot. Scientists have noticed something remarkable about blue whales— after years of ne...
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- Added: May 25, 2020
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: May 22, 2020
- Length: 02:27
- Purchases: 1
Researchers are investigating a method of creating power from fast moving streams in Nepal. Sometimes these micro-hydro minigrids work and sometime...
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- Added: Jan 14, 2020
- Length: 16:08
- Purchases: 1
In this piece we hear the process of musicians and scientists who collaborated to turn deep sea research into a song. Produced in Woods Hole, MA, ...
- Added: Nov 29, 2019
- Length: 11:46
We’re use to hearing about how much humans have impacted the earth. Scientists have given a name for this period to recognize human dominance over ...
- Added: Jul 16, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
How accurate was Vonnegut when he described the end of the world? We tackle climate science with climate researchers from the Scripp’s Institute of...
- Added: May 01, 2019
- Length: 24:57
Christie Aschwanden is the author of "GOOD TO GO: What The Athlete In All Of Us Can Learn From The Strange Science Of Recovery."
Christie lives in...
- Added: Feb 16, 2019
- Length: 09:49
Yale University ornithology professor Richard Prum’s newest book is "Evolution of Beauty. How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the ...
- Added: Aug 23, 2018
- Length: 09:53
Nature writer Craig Childs is the author of Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America. It’s a travelogue of places and people, just like us...
- Added: Aug 23, 2018
- Length: 09:56
Red wolves used to roam free across most of the eastern United States, from Maine to Florida, from Missouri to Texas, one of the top dogs in the fo...
- Added: Jul 16, 2018
- Length: 24:08
Using the Grand Canyon as the trailhead for his book, journalist Stephen Nash sounds an alarm of urgency for protecting our national parks.
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- Added: Apr 11, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In November, 2017, over fifteen thousand scientists from 184 countries issued a warning to humanity.
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- Added: Feb 08, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
“From the forests perspective, there is no such thing as a bad fire.” Dr Dominick DellaSalla Calls wild fires “natures phoenix” and discusses the i...
- Added: Oct 24, 2017
- Length: 50:36
Following the Mexico City 7.1 earthquake, we are again hearing about the need to stay alert in California and Washington. In reality, though, that ...
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- Added: Sep 22, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
From: Out of Bounds
Award-winning naturalist, poet & author discusses her most recent book "The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us"
- Added: Sep 13, 2017
- Length: 29:00
From: Out of Bounds
Karen Joy Fowler talks about her compelling and heart breaking novel "We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves."
- Added: Sep 13, 2017
- Length: 28:00
The Trump Administration is calling for drastic cuts in scientific research and development.
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- Added: Apr 09, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order. Its purpose is to reverse efforts to shrink America’s carbon footprint.
- Added: Mar 30, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Dr. Gary Griggs, Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz and director of the Institute of Marine Sciences talks abo...
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- Added: Feb 04, 2017
- Length: 54:01
- Purchases: 2
Ted has ridden the rails with hoboes, crossed the border with Mexican immigrants, and sliced beef in a meat-packing plant. Considered the master o...
- Added: Dec 16, 2016
- Length: 09:54
After decades of field work in southern Arizona, these two retired Univ of Colorado professors have authored the first in their Arizona Borderlands...
- Added: Dec 16, 2016
- Length: 09:56
Virginia’s Barrier Islands, and the waters and salt marshes that surround them, are among the most pristine coastal regions on the entire Eastern S...
- Added: Jun 16, 2016
- Length: 25:17
