PRX - Pieces for Topic: Environment
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A group of 19th century pioneers lay claim to one of the world’s most inhospitable mountains and turn it into a premiere tourist destination.
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 19:41
Joanna Solotaroff looks at the emotional connection with tuna, created by marketting. .
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 25, 2016
- Length: 09:33
- Purchases: 1
Trekking to the North Pole, the World's Fridge
- Added: Mar 13, 2016
- Length: 16:50
One man witnessed the 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake and recorded the incredible things he saw onto a cassette tape shortly thereafter to mail to fa...
- Added: Feb 09, 2016
- Length: 29:01
Two-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Al Reinert will premiere Audubon, a new documentary about the renowned bird artist, eloquent writer, and...
- Added: Dec 08, 2015
- Length: 01:00:10
Jerry and Jane Benham own a Century Farm that they have preserved for the next generation of farming.
- Added: Nov 19, 2015
- Length: 04:23
While West Virginia may be known for resources like coal, the country once turned to this mountain state for a culinary staple: salt. In this episo...
Bought by WMMT, WMMT, KVLU, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WABE and more
- Added: Sep 24, 2015
- Length: 23:22
- Purchases: 6
The Mig Maw had a name for this place that means cradle on the waves. Which is exactly what Prince Edward Island—PEI as the people here call it—loo...
- Added: Jul 02, 2015
- Length: 26:31
Ocracoke Island North Carolina is the Key West of the mid-Atlantic. It's far removed from the mainland and the Outer Banks, surrounded by water, on...
- Added: Jun 20, 2015
- Length: 28:02
Part One of Rivers That Were, Working Water, compares two environmental crises. On the Colorado River Basin, it’s the ongoing effort to restore the...
- Added: Jun 09, 2015
- Length: 55:53
Virginia’s Barrier Islands and the waters and salt marshes that surround them represent the most pristine coastal region on the Eastern Seaboard. U...
- Added: Jun 02, 2015
- Length: 25:24
Air raid sirens were designed to alert the public of incoming enemy attacks during World War II. But 50 years ago--during the worst tornado outbrea...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 04:52
During the last 150 years, most of Minnesota’s native prairies have been destroyed—converted into farmland for crops like corn and soybeans. But a ...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 05:55
- Purchases: 1
3D audio trips to 'special places' on the land; supernatural spots with unusual acoustics and extraordinary sounds.
- Added: Feb 12, 2015
- Length: 11:02
Minnehaha Falls has been a popular tourist spot for politicians since Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote his epic poem, “The Song of Hiawatha” in 185...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 04:21
If you asked people which of their senses they most feared losing, they'd probably say sight or hearing. But what about the ability to smell? We ex...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Sep 25, 2014
- Length: 43:58
- Purchases: 1
Something unusual happens about a half mile under the sea. Ocean physics create a special zone where sound travels for hundreds, even thousands of ...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, American Voices, Hark!, KFAI Minneapolis and more
- Added: Aug 26, 2014
- Length: 11:11
- Purchases: 11
Restoration carpenter Michael Burrey uses traditional techniques to preserve historic buildings. Sometimes, he struggles with living and working in...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: May 27, 2014
- Length: 04:46
- Purchases: 1
Hurricane Sandy was nearly one year ago. Days after the storm, one woman described seeing the storm surge cause a flood of the extremely toxic wate...
- Added: Oct 03, 2013
- Length: 03:22
Sargeant Mountain Pond in Acadia National Park is the oldest pond on the east coast. Fittingly, it's amassed its fair share of lore. Two friends ad...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 05, 2013
- Length: 07:00
- Purchases: 1
When horses need social time they turn to everything from farm animals to spider monkeys.
Bought by KGUA and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: May 21, 2013
- Length: 01:47
- Purchases: 2
A 16-minute spoken history / audio documentary on Appalachian regional history and the prominent issue of mountaintop removal coal mining. Compiled...
Bought by WDBM and West Virginia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Mar 29, 2013
- Length: 15:55
- Purchases: 2
The story of a unique landmark off the eastern coast of England - a packing shed built in the 1890s for the cleaning, sorting, and packing of oysters.
- Added: Mar 12, 2013
- Length: 29:00
The construction of the Ashokan Reservoir and the Catskill Aqueduct to provide NYC with water has been likened to the building of the Panama Canal....
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 06:37
This piece explores the unintended consequences that occurred to a once rural New York community after the building of the Tappan Zee Bridge.
- Added: Feb 21, 2013
- Length: 08:13
