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Since 2010, the Bay Area’s population has grown at a faster rate than the US, or California as a whole. And the growth in population – spurred by t...
- Added: Jan 15, 2016
- Length: 08:52
White sharks are uncommon — some research shows there could be fewer than 500 along our coast. Scientists are pretty sure that no one has ever reco...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WABE
- Added: Jan 15, 2016
- Length: 08:16
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Jan 06, 2016
- Length: 22:24
- Purchases: 1
Cloud seeding -- intervening in clouds to squeeze out precipitation -- is done all over the world. But it's not an exact science; we still have muc...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, The Allegheny Front: Reporting on the Environment, and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 20, 2015
- Length: 09:38
- Purchases: 3
Getting back to the kind of robust, regional food system that used to be the norm in America definitely requires some creative thinking.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Aug 23, 2015
- Length: 16:18
- Purchases: 1
Three hours north of San Francisco, just east of the ocean, rise the steep, green hills of Cazadero. It’s an idyllic setting: open space with farms...
- Added: Jul 23, 2015
- Length: 07:57
The sun is beating down on Islais Creek, a small marine channel in Hunters Point that opens out into the Bay. Homeless camps, graffiti, and factori...
- Added: Jul 20, 2015
- Length: 06:44
“There's one on the ground there. Are there two? No way! Are they mating?” I turn to ask longtime monarch sanctuary volunteer, Barb Thomas. We hove...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Jul 20, 2015
- Length: 08:22
- Purchases: 1
The lack of rain has forced California farmers and wine makers to turn from the sky to the ground to find water. It’s down there, but you have to k...
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 08:42
- Purchases: 4
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
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
“Minnesota 13” is the name of a corn seed developed at the University of Minnesota to suit the shorter growing season in the upper Midwest. But dur...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 04:48
According to Native American creation stories, the Ojibwe were guided to Minnesota by visions to migrate west until they came to a place where food...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 04:58
Kayla Sargent reports on EarthCorps International, a program that brings young international students to the Seattle area for preservation efforts
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 03:04
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
British naturalist and jungle survivor of Borneo, Amazonia and the Congo, O’Hanlon sets off this time on a commercial fishing ship in the harsh wat...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Dec 02, 2014
- Length: 09:56
- Purchases: 2
Every two years, San Francisco’s Soundwave Festival asks artists and musicians to focus their talents -- and their ears -- on one sonic idea. This ...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 05:18
Larger-than-life Serbian sculptor Zoran Mojisilov creates work from the most primal of elements: rocks, wood scraps and steel he hauls to his North...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 05:22
Minnehaha Falls has been a popular tourist spot for politicians since Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote his epic poem, “The Song of Hiawatha” in 185...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 04:21
Minnesota is known as the land of 10,000 lakes. And yet for people of color who enjoy the outdoors, exploring Minnesota's wilderness spaces can be ...
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 05:16
Jesse Moss talks recapturing cinematic freedom, finding common ground, and surrendering to the moment.
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: Oct 31, 2014
- Length: 16:58
- Purchases: 1
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
Kelly Reichardt talks community, isolation, and wanting to blow up a dam.
- Added: Jun 09, 2014
- Length: 11:30
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
