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An environmental group in Western New York is trying to help area refugees and others learn about the danger of eating contaminated fish from the G...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, WCPN, WSKG, North Country Public Radio and more
- Added: Sep 09, 2016
- Length: 03:47
- Purchases: 6
The replica Viking ship Draken Harald Hårfagre has sailed out of the Great Lakes, wrapping up a summer visit marred by a dispute over pilots fees. ...
Bought by WCPN, WXXI Rochester, WMUK, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCMU Michigan and more
- Added: Sep 07, 2016
- Length: 03:16
- Purchases: 7
Scientists are trying to figure out how Earth developed an atmosphere rich in oxygen. The answer to this billion-year-old mystery may lie in an unl...
Bought by Delta College Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, Interlochen Public Radio, WCPN, North Country Public Radio and more
- Added: Aug 24, 2016
- Length: 03:29
- Purchases: 6
This month marks the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s visit to Buffalo New York -- a day that helped clean up waterways across the...
Bought by WABE, WCPN, North Country Public Radio, WBFO, and WXXI Rochester
- Added: Aug 19, 2016
- Length: 03:43
- Purchases: 5
How do you clean up 100,000 tons of air pollution? Boatloads of air filters, and some basic high school chemistry. This story takes the listener in...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Dec 18, 2015
- Length: 04:25
- Purchases: 1
Ten years later and thousands of miles away, Hurricane Katrina lives on.
- Added: Dec 02, 2015
- Length: 27:58
Tune into our Innovate interview with Managing Editor Robert Rimm and Liz Maw, CEO of Net Impact. Liz discusses nonprofit strategy and the importan...
- Added: Oct 23, 2015
- Length: 34:18
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
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
In 2002, Juan Carlos Cancino, was riding his bike around town and found an entire city block of dilapidated greenhouses, near a hill in the Portola...
- Added: Jan 13, 2015
- Length: 08:44
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
For over a decade, Oakland has attempted to abate the illegal dumping of mattresses, electronics, furniture, and other large items onto city street...
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 07:20
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
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
Almost 30 million Americans live a mile or more away from a supermarket. That may not sound very far, but for the five million plus who don’t have ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 04:33
- Purchases: 1
The success of Bay Area Bike Share depends on one place: downtown San Francisco. Back in August, the program. made a well-calculated gamble and stu...
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 07:24
If you drive north from San Francisco and through most of Marin County, you get to the town of Novato. Turn east from Highway 101 and you run into ...
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 04:39
You might have heard about CleanPowerSF. It’s a program that would allow San Franciscans to choose where their electricity comes from. This model o...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 10:39
When we think of garage scientists, the eccentric, gray-haired Dr. Emmett Brown from Back to the Future might come to mind. But these days, garages...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 08:47
- Purchases: 1
Hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as “fracking,” could be a revenue bonanza for California. The nation’s largest reserve of deep-rock oil is in ...
- Added: Sep 02, 2013
- Length: 08:33
From: Free Speech Radio News
In Canada, people are rallying to support an Indigenous community in northern British Columbia that is claiming its sovereignty over the land and m...
- Added: Jul 17, 2013
- Length: 05:39
90% of the world's goods are carried by cargo ships. And the oceans they sail on are streaming with wind: High tech wing sails used on America's Cu...
Bought by Hark!, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WTIP, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 15, 2013
- Length: 06:41
- Purchases: 5
New Bedford Harbor ranks among the worst harbors in the country for surface oil spills. Harbor officials and environmental groups can’t even agree ...
- Added: Jun 03, 2013
- Length: 06:50
