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San Francisco is a biodiversity hotspot. Its vast parks are home to more than 50 types of mammals. Now, the city named after the patron saint of an...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 06:40
- Purchases: 1
The population of wild turkeys in the United States has been growing steadily throughout the country, and the trend holds true here in California. ...
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 08:21
Air raid sirens were designed to alert the public of incoming enemy attacks during World War II. But 50 years ago--during the worst tornado outbrea...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 04:52
In 1857, economic hardship left farmers and other citizens bust. Looking for a way to earn money Minnesotans took to the forests to harvest ginseng...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 04:39
During the last 150 years, most of Minnesota’s native prairies have been destroyed—converted into farmland for crops like corn and soybeans. But a ...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 05:55
- Purchases: 1
Blue zones are areas of the world where people live longest. Architects studying these “Landscapes of Longevity” say that our surroundings have mor...
- Added: Feb 20, 2015
- Length: 03:28
- Purchases: 2
Kirk Lombard calls himself a sea forager, and every other week offers this walking and fishing tour: a two-hour lesson on how to catch your own sea...
- Added: Jan 07, 2015
- Length: 09:50
Beside soccer fields and running trails, more and more communities are now adding dog parks to their recreation spaces. One scholar has been studyi...
Bought by KENW, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WEZU, and KKRN
- Added: Sep 18, 2014
- Length: 02:29
- Purchases: 4
South Louisiana’s Terrebonne Parish has low unemployment — there are lots of jobs in offshore services. So many that there could be a shortage of l...
- Added: Aug 04, 2014
- Length: 04:46
The legendary Hawaiian voyaging canoe, Hokulea, is sailing around the world using the ancient art of wayfinding, navigating without instruments. Th...
- Added: May 23, 2014
- Length: 04:19
There are many ways to handle neighborhood flooding, beyond pumping stations and sewers. Some cities have realized that skate parks, of all places,...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 04:39
From pedestrian plazas to pop-up-parklets…cities are looking to create spaces for people to gather, interact and create. But are some people being...
- Added: Apr 28, 2014
- Length: 29:00
They’re called bunker up north, and Pogies here in the South, and are sometimes referred to as “The Most Important Fish In the Sea”. These are the ...
- Added: Apr 11, 2014
- Length: 04:48
March 27, 2014 marked the 50th Anniversary of the Good Friday Earthquake in Alaska. What was that day like for teens and young people living in Anc...
- Added: Apr 04, 2014
- Length: 07:41
March 27, 2014 marked the 50th Anniversary of the Good Friday Earthquake in Alaska. What was that day like for teens and young people living in Anc...
- Added: Apr 04, 2014
- Length: 04:09
March 27, 2014 marked the 50th Anniversary of the Good Friday Earthquake in Alaska. What was that day like for teens and young people living in Anc...
- Added: Apr 04, 2014
- Length: 02:59
Americans are fascinated by the dangerous terrain of Alaska. In recent years, shows about hard-working men in the far North, like the History Chan...
- Added: Mar 13, 2014
- Length: 02:31
Efforts are underway to restore the fragile ecosystem of the shifting, changing land masses known as Virginia's barrier islands.
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Feb 27, 2014
- Length: 06:13
- Purchases: 1
Hundreds of millions of years ago, tectonic plates were shifting and volcanoes erupted along the Eastern Coast of the United States. But discoverie...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 16, 2013
- Length: 02:47
- Purchases: 1
The area’s so flat that every bunny hill seems a candidate. But, no, really — where is it?
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 12, 2013
- Length: 06:53
- Purchases: 1
The Slow Food movement has changed how we eat in the last quarter century. The Italian organization encourages us to dine on flavorful and health...
- Added: Jul 16, 2013
- Length: 04:04
Why itsy-bitsy-teeny-weeny backpacks may be the key to understanding how animals capture prey.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 03:43
- Purchases: 1
For years, a mysterious “colony collapse disorder” has been killing honeybees across the nation. This year, commercial beekeepers have reported los...
Bought by KENW and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: May 07, 2013
- Length: 02:27
- Purchases: 2
In this month’s show, we examine three issues that build on the relationship between environmental stresses and conflict. First, we examine the imp...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: May 03, 2013
- Length: 40:01
- Purchases: 1
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
