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From artificial beaches maintained by natural ocean currents, to projects that make extra room for rivers flowing through cities, the Dutch know ho...
- Added: May 14, 2019
- Length: 18:14
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
The 2008 Kingston, Tennessee coal ash spill was disastrous at the time, but what came a decade later would reveal the full devastation of the tragedy.
Bought by KRZA and West Virginia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Apr 22, 2019
- Length: 22:22
- Purchases: 2
Will Turner of Richmond, Virginia now holds the world record for the number of Ironman triathlons completed in a single calendar year—Sixty one. ...
- Added: Mar 05, 2019
- Length: 27:16
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
Will Turner is the Real Iron Man. No special effects, no suit of armor, no comic book fiction. Will is the genuine article. He now holds the world ...
- Added: Jan 16, 2019
- Length: 26:14
Will Turner is the Real Iron Man. No special effects, no suit of armor, no comic book fiction, He’s the genuine article. He now holds the world rec...
- Added: Dec 31, 2018
- Length: 15:04
Want a bike lane? Then go out and paint one on the road. Citizens in Macon redesigned downtown streets to show their city what the future can be....
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRGY, and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Dec 10, 2018
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 5
The home ownership gap continues to widen.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 27, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
John Larison is the author of "Whiskey When We’re Dry," a book of historical fiction. It’s an epic story of 17-year-old Jessilyn Harney who disguis...
- Added: Nov 02, 2018
- Length: 09:46
2018 National Heritage Fellow Kelly Church is an Anishanabe basketmaker who combines a traditional craft with a contemporary eye.
- Added: Oct 10, 2018
- Length: 28:56
Delia Owens, the co-author of several nonfiction books on African research and wildlife, has penned her debut novel, “Where the Crawdads Sing.”
Thi...
- Added: Sep 27, 2018
- Length: 09:50
It started with the red wolves at Alligator River, took me out to the Blue Ridge Mountains, then down to a tribal gathering of the Chickahominy in ...
- Added: Sep 11, 2018
- Length: 26:43
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
It all started with the red wolves who now live, for the most part, in eastern North Carolina at Alligator River. These wolves had once numbered in...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 24:33
Just as the red wolves were dispossessed of their homes so too were the people who had inhabited the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia for many gene...
- Added: Aug 13, 2018
- Length: 25:06
Encountering one of the last red wolves in the wild at Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge. And a run in with a black bear.
- Added: Jul 31, 2018
- Length: 24:57
Kim Wheeler is the Wolf Lady. She knows more about red wolves than just about anybody in the world. And the more I learn about these remarkable ani...
- Added: Jul 24, 2018
- Length: 24:51
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
For the next four weeks we’ll be looking for a highly social animal called the red wolf, or rufus canis. Under the current administration, the red ...
- Added: Jul 10, 2018
- Length: 24:59
Jennifer Haigh's novel Heat and Light takes a hard look at fracking in an Appalchian town
- Added: May 03, 2018
- Length: 28:18
Population growth is causing us to rethink our urban and suburban lifestyles, and with that, redesigning cities is a new fad.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Using the Grand Canyon as the trailhead for his book, journalist Stephen Nash sounds an alarm of urgency for protecting our national parks.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 11, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In "Wild Horse Country: The History, Myth, and Future of the Mustang,” Pulitzer Prize–winning NYT reporter David Philipps chronicles the story of A...
- Added: Mar 11, 2018
- Length: 09:47
