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Save the Vaquitas!
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Elements by Open Orchard Productions
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High schooler William Whittenbury attacks the dire situation of the endangered porpoise - the vaquitas. William hopes to change the fate of the vaq...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2015
  • Length: 04:03
Don't Stop Believing
From: Tom & Debra Weistar
Series: Voices of the Future: Youth and Elders Speak Together
Caption: Andy Lipkis interview
Shona revisits a conversation she had at the age of 17 with Andy Lipkiss, founder of TreePeople, and discovers that his story has even more relevan...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2014
  • Length: 14:26
The Indiana Jones of Mathematics
From: Ben Harden
Caption: Ken Golden drilling through the sea ice, Credit: Amanda Kowalski
Ken Golden isn't your typical mathematician. He's the Indiana Jones of Mathematics. He gets up from behind his desk, armed with mathematical theory...

Bought by KALW, Troy Public Radio, Radio Newark, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 07:32
  • Purchases: 10
Planet of the Apes -- Groks Science Show 2014-02-19
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dale Peterson joins us to discuss chimpanzee behavior.

Bought by 'The Sea', 'The Sea', WMUU-LP, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KPVL


  • Added: Feb 24, 2014
  • Length: 27:44
  • Purchases: 5
Island Stories: Virginia's Restless Archipelago Part 3
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: Colony of American oyster catchers., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Some 40 years ago the Nature Conservancy began buying up the barrier islands of Virginia and the riparian areas on the mainland. Today they own all...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2012
  • Length: 27:13
Who was Guinea Pig B
From: Euan McAleece
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An exploration into the life and legacy of Richard Buckminster Fuller

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 01, 2012
  • Length: 15:00
  • Purchases: 1
Growing with Oysters
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Using shellfish to build confidence in middle schoolers.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WMPG, KUT, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Jun 02, 2011
  • Length: 05:54
  • Purchases: 7
Tapped Out: Clean Water in Peril (1-hour version) with Newshole
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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From a grassroots toxic canal clean up to a long-standing watershed war, we’ll hear from U.S. water stewards across the country. They’re people wor...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston and WRPI


  • Added: Oct 16, 2009
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 2
Hummingbird Bander
From: Northwest News Network (N3)
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audio postcard of man who bands hummingbirds

Bought by WILL


  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 02:09
  • Purchases: 1
Alabama Alabama
From: Anton Foek
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One {....} of a captain. Kathy Broughton grew up in Birmingham Alabama but soon learned fishing from

Bought by WBHM


  • Added: Aug 01, 2008
  • Length: 11:10
  • Purchases: 1
Can America Go Green? Part 3: How Green Is Your valley?
From: BBC
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The United States of America produces one quarter of the world's carbon dioxide emissions. In the final part, Laura Trevelian looks at American lif...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 29, 2008
  • Length: 22:47
  • Purchases: 1
Can America Go Green? Part 2: Corporate Responsibility
From: BBC
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The United States of America produces one quarter of the world's carbon dioxide emissions. In part two, Laura examines how GE sees its future pro...

Bought by KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: May 29, 2008
  • Length: 22:50
  • Purchases: 1
Can America Go Green? Part 1: The Addiction To Oil
From: BBC
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The United States of America produces one quarter of the world's carbon dioxide emissions. Part one looks at how the US could retreat from its role...

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 29, 2008
  • Length: 23:00
  • Purchases: 2
Invaders from Another Ecosystem
From: Making Contact
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We visit wetlands around the San Francisco Bay, where scientists are waging a scorched-marsh campaign against a devastating kind of East Coast grass.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
S.F. Bay Oil Spill cleanup effort in Berkeley Marina
From: Matthew Fidler
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Matt learns of the volunteer effort first hand at the Berkeley Marina

  • Added: Nov 19, 2007
  • Length: 07:39
Wayfinders: A Pacific Odyssey
From: Heidi Chang
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A Hawaiian voyaging canoe is now sailing around the world for the first time as part of a movement to create a more sustainable world. When the ic...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Jan 31, 2007
  • Length: 06:07
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: Releasing the River - Restoring the Rhythms of the Zambian wetlands
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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ABG visits a Worldwide Fund for Nature project to restore the Zambian wetlands which - since the construction of two huge hydroelectric dams on the...

Bought by CKMO and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 09, 2004
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 2
RN Documentary: Biodiversity
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Documentary about biodiversity, what it is and why it’s important in connection with UN ‘International Day of Biological Diversity’.

  • Added: Sep 28, 2004
  • Length: 29:16