PRX - Pieces for Topic: Environment
Can't find it?
Try Advanced Search
The ten most water-stressed countries in the world – gosh, it sounds like a bad Buzzfeed article - are all in the Middle East or North Africa. Yeme...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 03, 2013
- Length: 08:12
- Purchases: 1
Brent Sicard, President and CEO of Lueken’s Village Foods grocery stores, announced plans for the local chain to grow and sell its own produce, as ...
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 20:16
Air Occupy presents voices from the Forward on Climate Rally in Washington, D.C. on February 17. Interviews with rally participants and sounds fro...
- Added: Mar 08, 2013
- Length: 59:06
Picture a slimy seaweed thicket – each plant a dark gold-brown, with a strong spine – wrapping around ropes, chains, and other sea life. This is Un...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 06:13
- Purchases: 2
Here's the first episode in our “Summer Dispatches” series, in which reporter Megan Molteni braves the scarred landscape of Colorado Springs after...
- Added: Oct 02, 2012
- Length: 13:57
This year’s outbreak of the West Nile virus is breaking records, with over 1500 cases reported so far. One researcher believes that decreasing the ...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Sep 07, 2012
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 1
One key to curtailing the West Nile virus? Birds.
Bought by WJCT
- Added: Sep 07, 2012
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
In this feature, WTIP North Shore Community Radio reporter/producer Carah Thomas accompanies Dr. Moore on an electrofishing survey of Susie Island,...
Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and KSRQ
- Added: Aug 24, 2012
- Length: 09:35
- Purchases: 2
The drought that settled into Oklahoma last year is getting worse. And it’s hurting business owners such as Harold Blackledge, an agricultural pilo...
- Added: Aug 20, 2012
- Length: 03:30
Concerns about the health effects of hydraulic fracturing prompted a Washington County, PA doctor to ask the state to take a closer look at a group...
- Added: Jul 27, 2012
- Length: 01:45
Because of historically cheap energy rates and lots of poorly insulated housing, Kentuckians’ average home electricity use is one of the highest in...
- Added: Jul 18, 2012
- Length: 12:49
CAPE HATTERAS, N.C. - Scientists say the waters are rising fast off the coast of North Carolina as a result of climate change. A new report publish...
- Added: Jun 26, 2012
- Length: 01:53
FORT COLLINS, Colo. - Triple-digit record temperatures, wind, and extreme low humidity combined to spark five new wildfires in Colorado this weeken...
- Added: Jun 25, 2012
- Length: 01:56
OLYMPIA, Wash. - Scores of Peninsula business owners are joining local farmers, clergy and elected officials in applauding a measure introduced Thu...
- Added: Jun 22, 2012
- Length: 02:01
INDIANAPOLIS - A letter is going out to Indiana's gubernatorial candidates - Democrat John Gregg and Republican Mike Pence - urging them to get on ...
- Added: Jun 22, 2012
- Length: 01:50
CONCORD, N.H. - The risks to water and wildlife if tar sands from Alberta are sent through an existing, aging pipeline across Vermont, New Hampshir...
- Added: Jun 19, 2012
- Length: 01:34
DENVER - A group of Front Range water providers is worried that the Bureau of Land Management's oversight of potential water use by oil shale compa...
- Added: Jun 18, 2012
- Length: 02:01
New York, NY - The Cuomo administration appears to have a new "fracking plan" that would place geographic limitations on shale gas drilling in New ...
- Added: Jun 14, 2012
- Length: 01:55
RALEIGH, N.C. - Fracking is on the fast track in North Carolina.
A state Senate bill already has passed, and now the House, after making some chan...
- Added: Jun 14, 2012
- Length: 01:37
FORT COLLINS, Colo. - The fast-moving High Park Fire sent a plume of choking smoke over the Front Range urban corridor on Tuesday morning - the mos...
- Added: Jun 13, 2012
- Length: 01:52
Shrinking the world’s population is one way to curb global warming, according to some environmentalists. To make that happen, women need more contr...
- Added: Jun 12, 2012
- Length: 29:01
DES MOINES, Iowa – Compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) save energy and last longer than incandescent bulbs, but when they do burn out, disposing...
- Added: Jun 08, 2012
- Length: 01:13
The U.S. Senate is taking up the Farm Bill, which will set the nation's food policy for the next five years.
- Added: Jun 06, 2012
- Length: 01:34
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - It started in Texas a year ago: grassroots pressure on the nation's leading retailer to recycle hazardous electronic waste (e-...
- Added: Jun 04, 2012
- Length: 02:10
LIVINGSTON, Mont. - Adjacent public lands, and how they're managed, provide insight into the economic health and well-being of rural counties in Mo...
- Added: May 29, 2012
- Length: 01:51