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Why are EVs more popular than hydrogen cars?
From: Laur Hesse Fisher
Series: TILclimate Podcast
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Just 20 years ago, hydrogen cars and battery electric cars (EVs) were pretty evenly matched as clean alternatives to gas-powered cars. But today, E...

  • Added: May 02, 2024
  • Length: 10:08
Do wind turbines kill birds?
From: Laur Hesse Fisher
Series: TILclimate Podcast
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Wind power is the largest source of clean, renewable energy in the United States. But the large turbines that create that power can endanger wildli...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2024
  • Length: 06:41
Do wind turbines freeze up in the cold?
From: Laur Hesse Fisher
Series: TILclimate Podcast
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In the terrible Texas cold front of 2021, some wind turbines stopped producing electricity. Does this mean we can’t rely on this clean, renewable s...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 07:03
Why does it take five years to build a wind farm?
From: Laur Hesse Fisher
Series: TILclimate Podcast
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The United States has a goal to power the country with 100% clean electricity by 2035. Unfortunately, our energy regulations are not set up to make...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 14:31
A public health expert’s guide to climate change
From: Laur Hesse Fisher
Series: TILclimate Podcast
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We all want to live full, healthy lives. But climate change is threatening a growing number of people’s lives and well-being. Professor of public h...

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 11:20
  • Purchases: 1
Wildfires—and how we're changing them
From: Laur Hesse Fisher
Series: TILclimate Podcast
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If you live in the U.S. Mountain West, the Pacific Coast of the Americas, or large parts of Australia or southern Europe, there’s a good chance a m...

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 13:08
  • Purchases: 1
Don't throw away your refrigerator
From: Laur Hesse Fisher
Series: TILclimate Podcast
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Refrigerants are in every refrigerator, freezer and air conditioner, and the world is on track to make a lot more of them in the years to come. The...

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 14:21
  • Purchases: 1
How tackling methane cools the planet fast
From: Laur Hesse Fisher
Series: TILclimate Podcast
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Carbon dioxide—CO2—is the greenhouse gas you’ve probably heard most about. But it turns out, methane is an incredibly important greenhouse gas too....

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 12:02
  • Purchases: 1
Wait, how do greenhouse gases actually warm the planet?
From: Laur Hesse Fisher
Series: TILclimate Podcast
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You probably know that today’s climate change is caused by certain gases—what scientists call greenhouse gases—that human activity has been adding ...

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 13:36
  • Purchases: 1
Uncharted Territory
From: Broken Ground
Series: Season 3: Sea Level Rise
Caption: Children walking in flood water, Norfolk, VA, Credit: Emily Richardson-Lorente
In Norfolk, Virginia scientists battling sea level rise enlist residents to help collect data that could help the city better understand its rising...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2020
  • Length: 32:34
Every Child in the Woods
From: Elia Powers
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Nature-based preschools are becoming increasingly popular. A school director in Seattle explains why children benefit from time in the woods.

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  • Added: May 21, 2020
  • Length: 05:50
  • Purchases: 1
Mist Nets and Long Ears
From: Rebecca Nolan
Caption: White Nose Fungus growing on the wing go a Northern Long Eared Bat , Credit: Rebecca Nolan
Scientists on Martha's vineyard investigate how to save bats from the deadly White Nose Fungus, which has been killing bats across North America.

  • Added: Jun 11, 2019
  • Length: 09:32
Environmental groups seeking new issues, new faces
From: Great Lakes Today
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Single-story option -- When you think of the environmental movement, what comes to mind? Preserving the wilderness at national parks? Or guaranteei...

Bought by WRVO Public Media, WCPN, WDET Detroit Public Radio, and North Country Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 4
Right Relationship with Mother Earth - Dr. Jim Collins and Peggy Rebol on Unspun
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Jim Collins
Unspun honors local environmental advocates, Peggy Rebol and Dr. Jim Collins, as we look at our relationships with Mother Earth and current environ...

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  • Added: Apr 17, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
Evicted From the Wild
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: The mountain pass, Sierra Nevada, Credit: Library of Congress
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
Fire on the Mountain: Climate Change, Fire, and the Ecological Future of the American West
From: Aengus Anderson
Caption: In the summer monsoon season, grass carpets the Chiricahua foothills., Credit: 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
199: More Answers for Sandy
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Image: Trains stand in a flooded Metro-North's Harmon Yard, Oct. 31, 2012, on the Hudson Line, in Croton-on-Hudson, New York in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, Credit: AP Photo | Metropolitan Transportation Authority
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss the New York Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance and their exemplary five-point st...

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  • Added: Nov 28, 2012
  • Length: 06:56
  • Purchases: 1
Infrastructure...generationally speaking
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Older,middle and younger generation perspectives on Infrastucture priorities

  • Added: Jun 24, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
The Last Mosquito
From: Anton Foek
Caption: Mosquito Net
According to scientists from all over the world approximately 1 million people die of malaria every year. The world community spends billions of d...

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  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 07:19
  • Purchases: 1
A Sea Change in the New England Funeral Business
From: Katherine Perry
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They say death, like taxes, is one of the few certain things in life. But the way that culture deals with death is not a static institution. In New...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2011
  • Length: 04:17
Locavore or Globavore?: The Debate Over Local Food
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
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As the local food movement grows so does criticism.

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, KVNF, and KISU


  • Added: Oct 05, 2010
  • Length: 07:32
  • Purchases: 3
The Detroit Peoples Water Board is Born
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: http://peopleswaterboard.blogspot.com/ , Credit: Detroit Peoples Water Board
In Detroit, the price of water is so high that for some, it’s out of reach. In response, citizens have come together to form the Detroit People’s ...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2010
  • Length: 09:03
Sage Grouse Strut
From: Wyoming Public Radio
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Noise from energy development may threaten Sage Grouse mating

  • Added: Apr 28, 2008
  • Length: 05:12
Kentucky's "Troublesome Creek."
From: Next Generation Radio
Series: NPR's Next Generation Radio
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Mining in Eastern Kentucky dries up water supply

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  • Added: Apr 12, 2007
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 1