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Caption: Recent explosive volcanic deposit around a fissure of the Cerberus Fossae system. , Credit: NASA/JPL/MSSS/The Murray Lab
Relatively recent volcanic activity observed on Mars suggests that where subsurface martian magma and frozen water meet is where microbial life cou...

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  • Added: Jun 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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This week on the show: Defining wilderness - We ask some deep environmental questions: What rights does nature have? Should people be consider...

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  • Added: May 28, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Earth Day, eco activists on TikTok and nuclear energy post-Chernobyl - In this episode of Living Planet, we hear about some of the different way...

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  • Added: Apr 25, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Death and music - After a year of so many lives lost, people around the world have found new, creative ways to deal with ...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: A Polish salt mine provides relief for post-covid patients. The Dutch go techno to learn more about easing covid restricti...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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This week's show: Joy, as England emerges from a three month lockdown. Serbia wins friends by vaccinating its neighbours. Why Turkey's reliance on...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Biden Hardline Policy Toward Russia, China Sacrifices Common Interests; ‘B...

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  • Added: Mar 31, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Trees are often seen as something to be chopped down for economic gain or cleared to make way for development. But without ...

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  • Added: Mar 19, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Sustainability & the city - We're taking a look at our cities. From our food systems to transportation and urban plannin...

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  • Added: Feb 26, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Raptors illegally hunted in Scotland, protecting vultures and cranes in Kenya, Spain's trash-gobbling storks - Whether y...

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  • Added: Feb 15, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on the show: Out and about - As rising numbers of COVID-19 infections keep us home, you may be dreaming of getting out and about. In...

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  • Added: Jan 19, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Some greats from a grueling year - In this year-end special, we reflect on the challenges of the pandemic and beyond. F...

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  • Added: Jan 01, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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On some nights an asteroid hunter searches for Earth approaching objects near the ecliptic plane where the planets and most of the asteroids are lo...

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  • Added: Dec 26, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
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Although the orbit of an Aten asteroid crosses our path in space on its travel about the Sun it stays mostly inside the Earth's orbit making it dif...

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Caption: Artists Conception Apophis, Credit: Dan Durda – FIAAA
Currently scientists, governments, and private citizens are preparing to mitigate a disaster caused by a large incoming space rock. To test techn...

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  • Added: Dec 04, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin searched for asteroids, as close to the Sun as possible with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lem...

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  • Added: Nov 28, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
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This week on the show: Drowning in plastic - We find out how people are tackling plastic pollution around the world, from testing British wate...

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  • Added: Nov 23, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Teddy Pruyne was observing in the constellation Lacerta with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona ...

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  • Added: Nov 20, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
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A large solar coronal mass ejection could put astronauts, airline passengers, power grids, electronic devices, and satellites at risk. Participa...

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  • Added: Nov 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
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The Atira class of Earth approaching asteroids are ones whose orbit is entirely within that of the Earth's path about the Sun. Less than 3 dozen o...

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
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Recently, in the journal Nature Astronomy, a team of astronomers led by Dr. Faustine Cantalloube of the Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy released...

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  • Added: Oct 23, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
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Most life on Earth is synchronized to the regular cycles of day and night. Until about a hundred years ago, the natural night sky was familiar to ...

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
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Auroral displays have been observed and reported on throughout human history. Data from NASA's 5 Themis (Themm us) satellites analyzed by powerfu...

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  • Added: Oct 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
Caption: Atmospheric gravity waves seen from space, Credit:  Jeff Schmaltz – (NASA)
Atmospheric gravity waves can be powerful. In September of 2018 two glider pilots surfed an atmospheric gravity wave created by high speed polar w...

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  • Added: Oct 02, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
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This week on the show: Creatures great and small - From caring for baby monkeys in Kenya, once mighty lions in Sudan to genetically modified mos...

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  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2