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Living Planet 07/03/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Splish, splash, comeback! - We hear about how some aquatic animals are undergoing a revival: Record numbers of sea turt...

Bought by WFIU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and KRZA


  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
592-Invasion
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Due to thoughtless outdoor night lighting on the surface and satellites in space the natural night sky is becoming a vanishing treasure. From cli...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, WLPR , Allegheny Mountain Radio and more


  • Added: May 29, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
Living Planet 05/22/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: we examine personal choice in relation to CO2 emissions and other environmental issues. What changes have we made in our h...

Bought by WFIU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and KRZA


  • Added: May 25, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
591-Teddy's First Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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One of the perks of being an asteroid hunter is to discover a comet and have it carry your name. Teddy's first comet discovery is a member of a gr...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, WLPR , Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW and more


  • Added: May 21, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
589-Defending Earth
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The International Asteroid Warning Network, or IWAN (Eye-Whan) for short has been established to link scientists who are discovering, monitoring, a...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW and more


  • Added: May 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
IE: Inside Europe, 4/17/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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This week on the show: Covid-19: European countries' staggered approach to reopening their economies. A German tradition gives locals a rare slice...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
Living Planet 04/03/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Not so fantastic We're taking a look at our plastic world — from the oceans, to its place in our homes, to its original s...

Bought by WFIU


  • Added: Apr 08, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Living Planet 02/28/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Greening spaces - What's the role of sports when it comes to climate change? Spanish soccer club Real Betis has committed...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and WFIU


  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
578-First PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Assuming the first potentially hazardous asteroid of 2020 has a chemical composition similar to the stony meteorites we find on Earth, it could co...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Living Planet 01/31/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Invasion of species - East Africa is dealing with the worst locust infestation in decades. No one knows why millions ...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and WFIU


  • Added: Jan 31, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Living Planet 01/10/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Wildfires and reforestation - We've got trees on the brain in light of devastating wildfires raging across Australia. W...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and WFIU


  • Added: Jan 10, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
570-Catastrophic Wreckage
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently a group of high inclination asteroids hiding in Jupiter's shadow have been identified. Encounters with the giant planet's gravity could c...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
World in Progress 12/05/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: We visit two very different parts of the world where mining is raising big concerns among local communities: In Australia,...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
566-October Fest
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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October of 2019 was a record breaking month for my team the Catalina Sky Survey during which we discovered 240 Earth approaching asteroids. This di...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, KENW, WTIP, WLPR and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
565-Ancient Crater
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In ancient times, Aboriginal people in southwestern Australia quarried fine grained rock on an ancient hill called Barlangi Rock to make very sharp...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: Nov 22, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
558-Exploring The Lunar South Pole
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The race to explore the Moon by robots and eventually human lunar colonists is on. Near the lunar south pole human space colonists could use solar ...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WLPR and more


  • Added: Oct 04, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
557-Back On The Sky
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In the American southwest we welcome the Monsoon rainy season during which the Earth receives much needed moisture. However, after six weeks of clo...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WLPR and more


  • Added: Sep 27, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
555-Dead Comet Dust
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Phoenicids are a minor meteor shower which was discovered by the first Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition on December 5, 1956. To spot the ...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: Sep 13, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
553-Exploring The Far Side
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Chinese, Chang'e 4 made a soft landing on the far side of the Moon where it is impossible to have direct radio communications with the Earth. I...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
552-Night Sky Surprise
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On October 7, 2018 the moonless night sky became 25% brighter and reached the point where it is at a small light polluted city, all without human ...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: Aug 23, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
551-Exploding Space Rocks
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In 2018 there were 15 Meteorite Fall Events for which observers saw a fireball streaking across the sky which then led to the discovery of pieces o...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: Aug 16, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
547-Impact Mars
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A given piece of ground on Mars receives several times more space rock impacts than a similar sized area on Earth. Perhaps, in the future the Marti...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
545-Celestial Congestion
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Imagine being under a clear natural night sky, with no moon, waiting to see stars down to the horizon, the Milky Way, star clusters, planets, the z...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: Jun 28, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
543-Asteroid Zoo
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In 2018 Asteroid Hunters discovered 1839 previously unknown space rocks as they passed through our celestial neighborhood. The largest and most dan...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: Jun 14, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Living Planet 06/07/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Challenging the status quo - We'll meet the Indian fishermen's wives who flexed their muscles to start their own rowing-...

Bought by WRGY, KRZA, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Jun 06, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4