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Unspun Looks at the Sixth Great Extinction with Paul Ehrlich, Biologist, Environmentalist and Author
From: Doug BennettSeries: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Unspun peers into the future at the Sixth Great Extinction with Paul Ehrlich. Paul R. Ehrlich is the Bing Professor of Population Studies and the ...
Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9
- Added: Sep 27, 2015
- Length: 57:49
- Purchases: 1
In the summer of 1901, San Francisco’s mayor, James D. Phelan, hiked up to an oak tree near the north bank of the Tuolumne River in Yosemite’s Hetc...
- Added: Sep 18, 2015
- Length: 14:02
Marine biologist Jon Stern studies cetaceans: porpoises, dolphins and whales. Stern is a professor at San Francisco State and also leads field stud...
- Added: Sep 18, 2015
- Length: 08:14
Climate scientist and MacArthur "Genius" award-winner Ben Santer says scientists don't yet know if climate change is affecting the timing of the se...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Jul 20, 2015
- Length: 02:24
- Purchases: 1
Climate scientist and MacArthur "Genius" award-winner Ben Santer on how scientists know that climate change is not just due to the Sun.
- Added: Jul 17, 2015
- Length: 04:02
Colorado is one of many states that has tried to create a cash for recycling program, or bottle bill. However, opposition from some surprising sour...
- Added: Jul 10, 2015
- Length: 06:31
For such a small region, this sprawling landscape of the Bootheel has some of the most productive farmland in the U.S. A solid water supply and nut...
- Added: Jun 03, 2015
- Length: 06:50
Dr. Doug Craig, great blogger at Climate of Change and his Free Therapy blog on ANewscafe, co-hosts with us again. We discuss Global Warming denie...
- Added: May 13, 2015
- Length: 59:09
In 2014, Florida voters passed Amendment 1—the Florida Water and Land Conservation Amendment—by a sweeping 75%. Advocates believe this should send ...
- Added: Apr 09, 2015
- Length: 11:42
Reporter Anna Simonton takes us down to Southern Louisiana, where the Houma people have been battling BP--and the entire oil industry--for decades,...
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- Added: Apr 08, 2015
- Length: 11:49
- Purchases: 1
Five years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, not everyone is “back to normal.” On this edition, we follow BP’s trail fro...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Apr 08, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Unspun talks about Nuclear Insanity with Dr. Helen Caldicott . Helen Caldicott is a Harvard Pediatrician, scholar, educator, author of several boo...
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 58:29
Dr. Doug Craig co-hosts with me, as Unspun revisits the most serious issue of our time, Climate Change (of course), with Dr. Michael Mann. Dr. Mic...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 58:25
Unspun sits down with Anne Petermann, Ex. Dir. of the Global Justice Ecology Project. Long time forest protection and indigenous rights activist. ...
- Added: Feb 17, 2015
- Length: 58:52
The Searsville Dam is causing big trouble on the peninsula. The 122-year-old, 65-foot-tall dam is closed to the public, hidden away on 1,200 acres ...
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 06:41
We are no strangers to earthquakes here in the Bay Area. But there’s been nothing in recent memory to match the 9.0 quake that shook Japan on March...
- Added: Jan 07, 2015
- Length: 16:21
There’s a new push to get tourists in New Orleans off bourbon street and into nature. Eco-tourism is the new way to explore Louisiana according to ...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Dec 08, 2014
- Length: 04:34
- Purchases: 1
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Producer Jesse Dukes has the story of some five hundred families who were made to leave their homes in an area supposedly “pristine and free of hum...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 08:03
- Purchases: 2
From: Aengus Anderson
In the wake of a catastrophic fire, researchers use Arizona's Chiricahua Mountains to look centuries into the future of climate change and ask "wha...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA
- Added: Aug 25, 2014
- Length: 06:55
- Purchases: 2
Outspent 3 to 1 by multinational seed companies, the citizens of Jackson County, Oregon successfully campaigned to ban GMO crops.
- Added: Jun 09, 2014
- Length: 07:42
Hawaii has not only become the primary testing ground for the seed industry but a battleground between biotech companies and concerned residents. M...
- Added: Jun 09, 2014
- Length: 05:12
Are we being told the truth about GMO foods in our midst? Sheldon Krimsky is Editor/reader here and Ralph Nader wrote the foreword to this informat...
- Added: May 30, 2014
- Length: 01:40
There are many ways to handle neighborhood flooding, beyond pumping stations and sewers. Some cities have realized that skate parks, of all places,...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 04:39
They’re called bunker up north, and Pogies here in the South, and are sometimes referred to as “The Most Important Fish In the Sea”. These are the ...
- Added: Apr 11, 2014
- Length: 04:48
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 ...
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- Added: Nov 05, 2013
- Length: 08:03
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