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Closing the Nuclear Cancer Factory
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Diane Turco from Cape Downwinders talks about the company decommissioning the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant, and how they're trying to save money buy...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2023
  • Length: 28:04
Episode 10: Big Fish, Big Science
From: David Levin
Series: The Loop: Stories from the Gulf
Caption: Biochemist Dana Wetzel dissects a fish exposed to oil in the lab., Credit: David Levin
Scientists at the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida, are leading a new experiment that will help uncover the effects of oil spills on fis...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 08:20
Episode 9: Mapping Oil Spills by Satellite
From: David Levin
Series: The Loop: Stories from the Gulf
Caption: Chuanmin Hu, an optical oceanographer at USF, points to a map of the Ixtoc-1 spill made from archival satellite data.
The 1979 Ixtoc-1 oil spill spewed millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, but has since been largely forgotten. More than 35 years late...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 09:50
A House Built on Sand
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Outside/In
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There’s a very robust debate going on right now as to exactly how much sea level rise we’re in for, and the Cliffs Notes version is that it’s betwe...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Aug 11, 2016
  • Length: 22:05
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 8: Return to Ixtoc
From: David Levin
Series: The Loop: Stories from the Gulf
Caption: PhD students Adriana Gaytán-Caballero and Travis Washburn collect tiny animals from a sediment sample taken at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
For the first time in 35 years, Mexican and American scientists are working together to study the Ixtoc 1 spill, a massive oil blowout that happene...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 09:03
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 7: The Gulf's Big Blowouts
From: David Levin
Series: The Loop: Stories from the Gulf
Caption: Through an alley in the old section of Ciudad del Carmen, dozens of ships serving the oil industry are visible just offshore.
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill happened just a few years ago. But it might be possible to predict its impact on the Gulf years into the future by ...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 08:08
Wildlandfire
From: Whitney Henry-Lester
Caption: The view from Stehekin
Recorded on an iphone while on vacation 2 miles away from a wildfire. Recorded for KCRW's 24 Hour Radio Race.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 04:35
  • Purchases: 1
The Future of Coal
From: The Allegheny Front: Reporting on the Environment
Caption: A coal terminal in Eastern Kentucky., Credit: Photo: Reid Frazier
Can the Appalachian Mountains recover from centuries of mining? What will happen to the thousands of coal miners projected to lose their jobs in th...

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 28, 2015
  • Length: 51:59
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 5: Dropping Like Flies
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Every year for the past few years, tens of thousand of flytraps have gone missing – from the wild, from gardens, from nurseries. And, really, nobod...

Bought by KALH, 90.5 WESA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 21:00
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 1: A New Disaster
From: David Levin
Series: The Loop: Stories from the Gulf
Caption: Researchers prepare to take samples of the ocean floor using a multicore device.
Biologist Steve Murawski is leading a new team of researchers trying to figure out the long-term impact of the Deepwater Horizon spill—not just on ...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Nov 05, 2013
  • Length: 08:03
  • Purchases: 1
Upstream
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Atlantic salmon numbers are dropping all over the world. In the US, they can only be found in seven rivers. All of them are in Maine.

  • Added: Aug 07, 2013
  • Length: 05:54
Moorings and Traps
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Making a living is a struggle this year for Maine lobster fishermen - due in part to strong conservation regulations.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 06:45
  • Purchases: 1
Man, Nature, and Climate Change with Elizabeth Kolbert
From: NPR Illinois
Series: Quiddity
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Features a discussion with The New Yorker's Elizabeth Kolbert about the impact of climate change on enviromental health, human health, and human ri...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 20:35
Bat Men
From: Robbie Feinberg
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Greg Auger's life was forever changed when he met the bat researching legend Don Griffin. This is the story of the two men, a pond, and what happen...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2012
  • Length: 08:05
Whitebark Pine, Grizzlies, and an Ecosystem on the Brink
From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Caption: Yellowstone flyover 2, Credit: K. Gourlay
Whitebark pine trees, once a feature of the mountainous west, are under attack. Nearly two-thirds have died from beetle attacks and other causes, h...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 17, 2012
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 1
Dam Neighbors
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: Courtesy of the Maine Department of Transportation
Lynn Smith moved to Maine in hopes of retiring in peace - but there was one thing she hadn't counted on.

Bought by KUOW, PRX Remix, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 16, 2012
  • Length: 06:24
  • Purchases: 3
Bats in Peril: White-nose Syndrome
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: An infected little brown bat., Credit: Ryan von Linden/New York Department of Environmental Conservation
A fungal disease has been destroying bat colonies in the northeastern United States and is now spreading south and west across the country. What is...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Nov 05, 2010
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Ocean Acidification
From: Judy Lubow
Series: Planet Warning
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Revised piece. Too much carbon is flooding the ocean with carbolic acid, with devestating effects on life in the sea.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2010
  • Length: 01:58
Acidic Seas
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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What's global warming doing to the ocean?

Bought by KZYX, KRUA, KUOW, WRNC-LP, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 17, 2008
  • Length: 04:57
  • Purchases: 6
The Mysterious Death of the Barn Owl
From: Guy Hand
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Barn owls die in larger numbers than any other animal on Idaho highways. Why?

  • Added: Jan 16, 2008
  • Length: 03:56
QUEST_How Do You Clean Up An Oil Spill?
From: KQED
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Why San Francisco's recent oil spill will be so hard to clean up.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 16, 2007
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 1
QUEST_Big Plans for Big OIl
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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As Chevron hatches expansion plans for one of California's largest oil refineries, Richmond's Green Party mayor considers the future of her city, a...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Jul 23, 2007
  • Length: 05:48
  • Purchases: 1