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Living Planet 09/10/22
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on Living Planet, we explore a topic that's perfectly natural and something we do every day. Whether you use a squat toilet, a pit latrin...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and Radio Kansas


  • Added: Sep 09, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Straight To Hell
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Night has fallen on the desert, the desert at its most brutal. The punishing desert, the earthly purgatory, the sun-blasted wilderness so many hero...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
Episode 95: Close Encounters Of The Wild Kind III
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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It's late spring and animals are on the move. Sometimes their paths cross with people. For our last episode of the season, here are two stories…thi...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2021
  • Length: 28:57
Episode 85: The Unclimbables
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Mo Beck was a professional climber who regularly won gold in competitions. But when she joined a team on a long expedition in the remote Cirque of ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KRZA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 25, 2020
  • Length: 21:51
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 81: The Ghost Of Africa
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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South Africans Chris Diedericks and Anna Calitz wanted to go on a romantic getaway, but their adventure broke down before it even began.

Bought by WCNY, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KRZA


  • Added: Jul 17, 2020
  • Length: 21:41
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 76: Close Encounters Of The Wild Kind II
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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It's springtime and Earth Day! Animals are on the move, and sometimes their paths cross with people. Here are five stories to help you get outside ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 29, 2020
  • Length: 27:30
  • Purchases: 1
What Happens When You Wake a Sleeping Bear
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Problem with a bear in your neighborhood? This is the guy who gets the call.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 25, 2019
  • Length: 04:10
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 65: Deserted
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Josh Patterson loved taking photographs of rare finds in the Mojave Desert. But on one trip, things didn’t go as planned.

Bought by KRZA and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 08, 2019
  • Length: 16:28
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 58: Close Encounters Of The Wild Kind
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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It’s spring! Animals are on the move, and sometimes their paths cross with people. Here are four stories.

  • Added: May 16, 2019
  • Length: 37:09
A Mojave Solstice
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Winter holidays in the High Desert, and problems with the 29 Palms Christmas Pageant. Guest: Brendan Maze.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Dec 25, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
GN_4.39_AnimalLove
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
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Animals love each other too.

  • Added: Aug 24, 2018
  • Length: 02:30
HumaNature: 30 Minute Special 10
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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"Row Row Row Your Boat…Or Not" and "A Ballroom Dancer, A Shark, And A PR Problem" A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: It was suppos...

Bought by KSTK


  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 1
HumaNature: 30 Minute Special 9
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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"Finding Your Way Home In A Purple Canoe" A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: Patrick Dobson was stuck in his life, so he decided t...

Bought by KSTK, Prairie Public, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
HumaNature: 30 Minute Special 1
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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"Up A River, Without… A Pigeon?" and "Bigfoot" A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: Charlie Thomas worked as a whitewater rafting gu...

Bought by KSTK and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 14: It’s All Downwind From Here
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Sophie May grew up in Alaska, spending lots of time outside. But when it came time to explore the wilderness as an adult, she found out she had mor...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, KUER, KRZA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 16, 2016
  • Length: 14:59
  • Purchases: 4
These Shoes Were Made For Mocking
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Outside/In
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Producer Taylor Quimby has been defending Vibram FiveFingers™ shoes to naysayers for years. When people see him wearing them while he’s on the trai...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2016
  • Length: 24:42
Good vibrations! These bugs do their sexting via plant stem
From: Veronique LaCapra
Caption: Twomarked treehoppers, Credit: Kasey Fowler-Finn, Saint Louis University
Most insects communicate in a way that we can’t hear. A scientist at Saint Louis University is using a laser to eavesdrop on one insect’s “conversa...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2015
  • Length: 05:38
Behind the hijinks, with Andy Bichlbaum of The Yes Men
From: Waging Nonviolence
Series: We Are Many
Caption: Andy Bichlbaum of The Yes Men., Credit: The Yes Men
Andy Bichlbaum discusses the new Yes Men movie and how his mischievous youth led to a life of hilarious, but highly effective, activism.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jun 09, 2015
  • Length: 44:12
  • Purchases: 1
Cicada Confidential
From: Louisa Jonas
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From the red eyes of a periodical cicada looking out: a bug's first person rendition from emergence til death.

Bought by KSJD, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WTIP, Radio Newark, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Jun 19, 2013
  • Length: 07:42
  • Purchases: 8
The Mikie Show #51, Margaret
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Join us as we speak with paleoecologist extraordinaire, Margaret B. Davis. She is one of the world’s foremost scholars of palynology, a branch of p...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2012
  • Length: 27:59
In Beekeeping, Honey's Worth A Few Stings
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Caption: Andrew Coté holds up a panel of bees., Credit: Chion Wolf
An intrepid producer braves several stings to tell a story about beekeeping and a beekeeper who has traveled the world to teach his craft.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WFIU, New Hampshire Public Radio, KZYX, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 29, 2012
  • Length: 03:25
  • Purchases: 5
Cheers! Fruit Flies Drink To Their Health, Literally
From: Veronique LaCapra
Caption: A wasp attacks a larval fruit fly., Credit: Todd Schlenke, Emory University
It's Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, time for dancing, eating and, of course, drinking - sometimes a lot of drinking. Now, as humans, we pay a price for d...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2012
  • Length: 03:47
Zoo Crafts Love Nest To Save Ozark's Salamanders
From: Veronique LaCapra
Caption: An adult Ozark hellbender is typically brown or green with black markings that help it blend in with its rocky river-bottom habitat., Credit: Jeff Briggler/Missouri Department of Conservation
They're flat, they're slimy, and they hide under rocks on river bottoms. At up to 2 feet in length, the Ozark hellbender is one of the world's larg...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2012
  • Length: 03:59
Cicadas. Love 'em...hate 'em...eat 'em?
From: Veronique LaCapra
Caption: These cicadas were collected at night, shortly after they emerged, while their bodies were still soft and white. They were then frozen for storage. , Credit: Art Chimes
Billions of periodical cicadas have emerged over the past few weeks in more than a dozen states across the Southeast and Midwest. In part one of t...

Bought by PRX Remix and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 17, 2011
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 2
The arrival of spring
From: Will Dewees
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Old man winter seems to have the last say on the arrival of spring.

  • Added: May 03, 2011
  • Length: 01:34