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Episode 6: Save By Savoring
From: Slow Melt Productions
Series: The Slow Melt: A Podcast About Chocolate
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Discover the diverse flavors of cocoa from Vietnam, Trinidad and Dominican Republic and learn how we can save these flavors by savoring them.

  • Added: Mar 28, 2017
  • Length: 24:00
Blue Water Cowboys
From: Outer Voices
Caption: Pulling up the Dinghy, Credit: Stephanie Guyer-Stevens
“Blue Water” sailing is the kind where there’s no land to be seen, hopefully for days or weeks on end, and there’s a rare group of people who contr...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 21, 2016
  • Length: 22:39
  • Purchases: 1
Thirsty Planet
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports
Caption: Residents of India, Israel confront water issues such as flooding, drought, pollution, and lack of access by the poor.
Scientists say most people on Earth will first experience climate change in terms of water — either too much or too little. This documentary explor...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WMUU-LP, Interlochen Public Radio, WVPE, WRIR and more


  • Added: May 12, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 15
Ep.08: Fukushima at 3 Years & Paying the Nuclear Bill
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Episodes
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Living in Fukushima 3 years later. Who pays the nuclear bill in the case of a disaster? Shooting Fukushima with photographer Donald Weber.

  • Added: Mar 13, 2016
  • Length: 14:02
Ep.07: Going Undercover for the Arctic 30 & What is a RHIB?
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Episodes
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The amazing story of a photographer who went undercover in Russia to get the shot. Captain Peter Wilcox tells us about a RHIB. (Boaty thing!)

  • Added: Mar 13, 2016
  • Length: 14:14
Ep.05: Trekking to the North Pole & The World's Fridge
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Episodes
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Trekking to the North Pole, the World's Fridge

  • Added: Mar 13, 2016
  • Length: 16:50
On deck with the Rainbow Warrior
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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The RW comes home to Vancouver. Is this ship iconic in the city where Greenpeace began?

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 13, 2016
  • Length: 08:47
  • Purchases: 1
Renewable Energy in a Nuclear Neighbourhood & Suing Environmentalists
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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Ontario's reliance on nuclear energy means renewable energy is happening on a community level. Suing environmentalists Suing environmentalists to s...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 06:42
Access to Water: What's it like to worry about every drop?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Access to water has been declared an international human right, but it may be increasingly difficult to enforce. This episode explores how countrie...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 20:03
How to be a Plastivist
From: Ali Lightfoot
Caption: Sampled water from the north pacific garbage patch, Credit: Dale Selvam
Billions of pounds of plastic can now be found on about 40 percent of the world’s ocean surfaces. In this radio documentary, KVNF's Ali Lightfoot...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 06, 2015
  • Length: 28:04
  • Purchases: 1
The weed that saved Minnesota
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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In 1857, economic hardship left farmers and other citizens bust. Looking for a way to earn money Minnesotans took to the forests to harvest ginseng...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 04:39
Birds of a Feather
From: Israel Story
Caption: "Yoram" aiming at one of his soon-to-be crow victims.
Every summer tourists flock to the beautiful beaches of Eilat, Israel. But in the past thirty years, a new kind of tourist has made its way down so...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 25, 2015
  • Length: 12:49
  • Purchases: 2
The 61cm Crocs of Darwin, Australia
From: Timothy Nicastri
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What happens when your pet Crocodile hits 2 foot?

  • Added: Jul 21, 2014
  • Length: 15:12
The School that Had No Water: Water Security in South Africa
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Terrascope Radio Major Features
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What would you do if you were headmistress of a school with no water--none for drinking, none for cleaning, none for flushing, none? Here is the st...

  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 19:41
US Coal Company Shipments Polluting Colombia's Coast
From: Jennifer Dunn
Caption: Fisherman Juan Armesto in front of Drummond's port, Credit: J Dunn
Santa Marta residents say Alabama-based coal company Drummond is trashing their water and air.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 05:58
  • Purchases: 1
Trekking to the North Pole
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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In the spring of 2013 four people went on a trek to the North Pole with a message.

Bought by PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, KMXT, KSJD, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 02, 2013
  • Length: 11:02
  • Purchases: 5
Following in Darwin's Footsteps: Two Young Women Scientists Forge Their Futures in the Galapagos
From: Veronique LaCapra
Caption: Maricruz Jaramillo (standing) and Samoa Asigau wait for their ride back to the Charles Darwin Research Station after an early morning of catching birds in an agricultural area on Santa Cruz Island., Credit: Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio
What motivates young people to become scientists? Meet Maricruz Jaramillo and Samoa Asigau, two young women scientists from opposite sides of the P...

Bought by KMUN, Cards Against Humanity: The Good News Podcast, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WNIJ and more


  • Added: Jul 26, 2013
  • Length: 06:34
  • Purchases: 14
Cosmopolination
From: Chris Wood
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Over the past 20 years the bee population of the UK has declined by 50%, but the interest in urban beekeeping has been steadily growing. We speak t...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2013
  • Length: 26:36
Yemen: Scarce Water, Security Threat?
From: War News Radio
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The ten most water-stressed countries in the world – gosh, it sounds like a bad Buzzfeed article - are all in the Middle East or North Africa. Yeme...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 03, 2013
  • Length: 08:12
  • Purchases: 1
Island Stories PEI Cradle on the Waves Part 7
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Calvin Jollimore and his daughter., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Prince Edward Island is known the world over for its mussels. Nothing quite like them and those produced on PEI account for 80 percent of all musse...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2013
  • Length: 27:06
Pura Vida: Costa Rica's Culture of Conservation
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Terrascope Radio Major Features
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Part documentary, part sound-collage, this special explores Costa Rica, considered one of the "greenest" countries in the world, and its national e...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2013
  • Length: 21:19
Bartolo's Honey
From: Diane Bock
Caption: Yucatan Honey, Credit: John Bock
A hot, sticky day in the Yucatan.

  • Added: Dec 31, 2012
  • Length: 05:05
Namibia Road Trip
From: Jake Warga
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Come on a self-drive road-trip through Namibia and learn how tourism is helping to conserve wildlife, habitat, and culture. PRX exclusive, slated f...

Bought by KUOW, KUT, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 03, 2012
  • Length: 04:49
  • Purchases: 3
Latitude News Podcast #2 - Two Nations, Under Cod
From: Latitude News
Caption: You bet this story is about fish.
American cod fishermen are broke. Norwegian cod fishermen make $100,000/year. What's up with that?

Bought by KUOW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 10, 2012
  • Length: 10:50
  • Purchases: 2
Watha hunter escapes angry elephant
From: Paula Kahumbu
Series: AFRICA'S WILDEST STORIES
Caption: Bashora in Amboseli, Credit: Ron Guijs
Bashora Galgalo is a 47 year old member of the Watha Tribe a minority indigenous hunter gather tribe from Kenya. He was born a hunterat Ndololo in ...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2012
  • Length: 07:10