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Not Buying Into Food Woo
From: Skeptoid
Series: Skeptoid Radio Hour
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Brian Dunning examines some interesting beliefs around food and whether or not they are supported by science.

  • Added: Apr 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
The Catch: Of Cod and Country
From: Rob Sachs
Caption: The Catch Logo, Credit: Foreign Policy
On this episode of The Catch hear how one of the Arctic’s most valuable fisheries—cod—is being impacted by the politics of Russia’s war in Ukraine ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KFCF FM, KJZZ, KECG, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Mar 15, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
All the Noise Surrounding Electric Cars
From: Skeptoid
Series: Skeptoid Radio Hour
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Brian Dunning separates fact from fiction as he examines the talking points made by the many people who hate electric cars.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Season 1, Episode 17 - 'Ecological Reality' feat Dr. Julian Caldecott
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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How changing our hearts and minds will change how we approach our relationship with the planet.

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB


  • Added: Feb 26, 2024
  • Length: 57:55
  • Purchases: 2
But Next Time Part 3: The Fight for Fair Housing in the Face of Climate Change (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: 12 Moms Initiative member Jamie describes water and mold damage to her home at the Coppertree Village Apartments to members of the National Low Income Housing Coalition during a bus tour hosted by Houston's housing justice organizers., Credit: Leah Mahan
Today in Houston, Texas we meet a group of moms who stand up for local housing policies that keep families of color trapped in unsafe homes for yea...

Bought by KMUN and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Dec 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
But Next Time Part 1: California Wildfires and Protecting Our Farmworkers (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: KBBF board President, Alicia Sanchez prepares a recording for the station., Credit: Amanda Lopez
As fires ravaged California’s wine country in 2017, farm and service workers, especially non-English speakers, were some of the hardest hit. Hear m...

Bought by KMUN and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Dec 05, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Promise and Peril of Geoengineering
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Image of Arctic Ice, Credit: Pink floyd88 a, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
In recent years, scientists have begun testing geoengineering technologies to slow down or even stop global warming. But, is geoengineering safe? A...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Smithsonian Associate, Dr. Noah Whiteman: Toxic Allure: The Hidden World of Nature's Most Captivating Poisons
From: Paul VOGELZANG
Series: Smithsonian Associates Interview Series, Not Old Better Show
Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series
My guest today, Dr. Noah Whiteman, tells us to scratch beneath the surface of a coffee bean, a red pepper flake, a poppy seed, a mold spore, a foxg...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2023
  • Length: 35:16
episode 6: glacier thread
From: Theresa Soley
Series: Ice and Fire
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In the last full episode of the season, we travel to the Greenland ice sheet and hear from a researcher who collects data at the face of tidewater ...

  • Added: Jul 12, 2023
  • Length: 23:22
episode 5: acoustic refuge
From: Theresa Soley
Series: Ice and Fire
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We hear what makes tidewater glacier habitat an acoustic refuge, and why glaciers are important to other species in the ecosystem.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 19:11
episode 3: glacier walkers
From: Theresa Soley
Series: Ice and Fire
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We hear from Judy Ramos in Lingít Aaní. She tells us about the history of glacier travel in the region, and about the Spirit of the Glacier.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 24:28
A Prayer for Salmon: Documentary Special Part 5 - The Return of Salmon (NPR Clock)
From: Judy Silber
Series: The Spiritual Edge: A Prayer for Salmon
Caption: Shasta-Trinity National Forest, CA—The granddaughter of Chief Caleen Sisk holds salmon eggs before dropping them into an incubator (the blue barrel) where they will hatch and juvenile salmon will swim out into the McCloud River. July 11, 2022. , Credit: Tom Levy/The Spiritual Edge
A Prayer for Salmon - The Return of Salmon. A War Dance held on top of Shasta Dam brought about a surprising discovery: the Winnemem Wintu's fish s...

Bought by KKRN, KGLP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KVCR, Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: May 24, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
A Prayer for Salmon: Documentary Special Part 4 - Speaking for Salmon (NPR Clock)
From: Judy Silber
Series: The Spiritual Edge: A Prayer for Salmon
Caption: McCloud, CA — A Winnemem Wintu man dances in ceremony for the salmon. , Credit: Tom Levy/The Spiritual Edge
A Prayer for Salmon - Speaking for Salmon. At a sacred spring high up on Mt. Shasta, the Winnemem Wintu recount the beginnings of the world when sa...

Bought by KKRN, KGLP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KVCR, KFCF FM and more


  • Added: May 24, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 10
A Prayer for Salmon: Documentary Special Part 3 - A Habitat Destroyed (NPR Clock)
From: Judy Silber
Series: The Spiritual Edge: A Prayer for Salmon
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A Prayer for Salmon - A Habitat Destroyed. The Winnemem Wintu and supporters start a two-week Run4Salmon prayer to call salmon back to the waters a...

Bought by KKRN, KGLP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KALW, KVCR and more


  • Added: May 24, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
A Prayer for Salmon: Documentary Special Part 2 - It's Illegal (NPR Clock)
From: Judy Silber
Series: The Spiritual Edge: A Prayer for Salmon
Caption: "Shasta Reservoir, CA — Chief Caleen Sisk on the shoreline near where she says a Winnemem Wintu village site was flooded out by Shasta Dam. October 30, 2018. , Credit: Tom Levy/The Spiritual Edge
A Prayer for Salmon - It's Illegal. We go to Shasta Dam and learn about the history behind its construction in the late 1930s and early 1940s. We h...

Bought by KKRN, KGLP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KVCR, KFCF FM and more


  • Added: May 24, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
A Prayer for Salmon: Documentary Special Part 1 - A Protest at Shasta Dam (NPR Clock)
From: Judy Silber
Series: The Spiritual Edge: A Prayer for Salmon
Caption: Shasta Lake, CA — The Winnemem Wintu and allies protest the lack of information about the harm caused by Shasta Dam. September 25, 2019. , Credit: Tom Levy/The Spiritual Edge
A Prayer for Salmon - A Protest at Shasta Dam. In a peaceful protest, the Winnemem Wintu call out the U.S. government for its refusal to acknowledg...

Bought by KKRN, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KGLP, KFCF FM, KVCR and more


  • Added: May 24, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 11
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
Caption: David Mivasair canoes Cootes Paradise, Credit: David Kattenburg
The roots of the US anti-abortion movement — misogyny, racism and hatred of immigrants. On the edge of a big Canadian city, an oasis of calm where ...

  • Added: May 21, 2023
  • Length: 58:33
Sound Ecology: Diablotin (Black-capped petrel)
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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A rare little seabird nests in the rugged mountains between Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2023
  • Length: 01:45
Earl Swift: Watching Waters Rise
From: Broken Ground
Series: Season 2: Environmental Writers
Caption: Author Earl Swift
Interview with Earl Swift, author of Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island.

  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:53
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 8
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two stories that revisit the past.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jul 13, 2022
  • Length: 50:30
  • Purchases: 1
Time to 1.5 | 8 | Prayers of Steel I
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
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Steel is the signature material of the Industrial Revolution. It’s also an essential component of the wind turbines, electric cars, and climate-fri...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Apr 20, 2022
  • Length: 44:52
  • Purchases: 1
Old Docs Take New Patient: The Climate
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
Caption: Robin Cooper, Psychiatrist and Climate Activist
Older doctors talk about their journey from medicine to hardcore climate activism. Bill McKibben introduces his new group Third Act and explains w...

Bought by WFHB, KICI Iowa City, KZYX, WFHB, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Mar 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Where the Wild Things Are
From: Israel Story
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When Marie Röder was eight years old, she survived a terrifying encounter with a wild boar in the depths of Berlin’s dark Tegeler Forst. The fright...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 12:16
Time to 1.5 | 1 | 1.5 To Stay Alive
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
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After decades of scientific study and political wrangling the world has agreed—at least on paper—that 1.5C of heating must be the upper limit of ou...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Feb 01, 2022
  • Length: 46:29
  • Purchases: 1
How to Survive the Future
From: Alex Chambers
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How to Survive the Future: A Special features two interviews from the future, introduced by an essay on Walter Benjamin and hope in dark times. In ...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:01