PRX » Search » Browse

PRX

Home
Pieces
Series
Playlists

PRX - Pieces for Topic: Environment

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search

View by:

2197 results

« Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 87 88 Next »

Buzzing Bees Move Elephants

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series

If you ever need to shoo a herd of elephants out of your backyard, new research suggests that you may want to unleash: The bees!

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Dec 27, 2014
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

How Invasive Fish Travel

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series

By 1999 the Round Goby, a harmless-looking little bug-eyed fish from the Black Sea, was found in all five of the Great Lakes. And it was wreaking h...

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Dec 27, 2014
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

Great Lakes Invaded By Goby

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series

In April of 1990, biologist David Jude pulled a little bug-eyed fish from the Saint Claire River near Detroit. It was a Round Goby. Immediately, al...

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Dec 27, 2014
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

Hydrogen Fuel Cells

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Hydrogen fuel cells could make for a better car. Proponents say if we can get past the technology's many hurdles, at a cost people can afford, they...

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Dec 27, 2014
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

Hydrogen And Egg Shells

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Engineers at Ohio State University are cracking up over a new way of separating gasses. And they've possibly created a new process to produce a cle...

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Dec 27, 2014
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

Health And Pollution

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series

The latest air pollution discovery reads like a murder mystery. Thousands died from strokes and heart attacks within 24 hours after jumps in partic...

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Dec 27, 2014
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

Recycling Wind Turbines

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series

With wind turbines popping up all over the world, wind power is quickly becoming one of today's most popular renewable energy sources. But in the m...

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Dec 27, 2014
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

Decrease In Plant Species

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Remember Pete Seeger's song, "Where have all the flowers gone?" He blamed their disappearance on young girls picking them. But with 8,000 flowers a...

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Dec 27, 2014
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

The Endangered Iriomote

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series

For over 200,000 years, the Iriomote Cat lived in isolation on a tiny island between Taiwan and Japan. More recently, however, Iriomote Island has ...

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Dec 27, 2014
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

Tofu Glue Is Sticking

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Easing fossil fuel dependence involves more than energy-efficient cars and light bulbs. It also involves tofu.

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Dec 27, 2014
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

New Plastics From Old Paint

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Have you ever bathed in paint? Canary yellow or baby blue? Well of course you haven't! But almost three million Americans could have last year, sin...

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Nov 29, 2014
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

XptA1: Nature’s Pesticide

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Mother Nature doesn't fly a crop-duster -- she doesn't need to. A research team at the University of Warwick, England, recently discovered a natura...

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Nov 29, 2014
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

Carbon Storage In Mangroves

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Mangrove trees are simply amazing, in a sci-fi kind of way. They live in perhaps the most hostile plant environment imaginable -- a coastal war zon...

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Nov 29, 2014
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

RBI Highlights Conservation Needs

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Get in and get out! It works for the Navy Seals. So why not do the same with a crack team of scientists?

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Nov 29, 2014
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

Invasion Of Monster Toads

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Now playing in Australia: Invasion of the Monster Toads! Today's story began back in the 1930s when Australia's sugar-cane farmers had a problem.

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Nov 29, 2014
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

Electric Fans For Cars

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Getting better gas mileage for the ride doesn't have to mean hydrogen fuel cells, or a fancy hybrid. One solution already exists right under the ho...

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Nov 29, 2014
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

Cave Habitats

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Nature builds neighborhoods in the most interesting places. Caves, for example, are pretty spectacular neighborhoods.

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Nov 29, 2014
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

Saving Energy On Street Lights

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Already declared the third smartest city in the U.S. by Forbes Magazine, Ann Arbor, Michigan recently had another bright idea. They decided to repl...

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Nov 29, 2014
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

Nature Provides Clues For Survival

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Believe it or not, sometimes, it's a good idea to be "as cold as ice." Take, for example, the arctic ground squirrel.

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Nov 29, 2014
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

Beetle Juice

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series

The African Stenocara beetle has learned a thing or two about water conservation. Living in the Namib desert, it uses its wings to capture water va...

Bought by KMXT, KALH, and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Nov 29, 2014
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 3

Water Use

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Did you know it takes over 132 gallons of water to make a tortilla? No doubt, more than you thought. But it's also more than experts thought too!

Bought by KALH, WXDU, and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Nov 29, 2014
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 3

Books Vs. E-Readers

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Paper book or e-reader? Which is greener? Digital readers may save trees. But are they better environmentally overall than good ol' book books?

Bought by KMXT, KALH, and Radio Baha'i, WLGI

Added: Nov 29, 2014
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 3

San Francisco's City Hall Chooses Green Vendors

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series

San Francisco, a lovely progressive earth-conscious city by the Bay, is coming out with a new web site listing products that meet the city's strict...

Bought by KALH and Radio Baha'i, WLGI