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Writer J. Frank Dobie wished he could be sung to sleep and woken by a coyote chorus every day. But not everyone regards coyotes so amiably. Who are...
- Added: Jan 09, 2011
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 2
Winter brings hordes of handsome cedar waxwings to our region, where they’ll throng our junipers and devour every berry they can find. What makes t...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Jan 04, 2011
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Pine trees are much more than symbols of Christmas and sources of timber. They serve up a smorgasbord for many wild animals and insects. Who dines ...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Jan 04, 2011
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Creosote’s therapeutic applications would make any biotech CEO green with envy. What are this desert shrub’s medicinal properties? And why is it su...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Dec 21, 2010
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Animals have adapted to surviving with little or no water during the Chihuahuan Desert's dry winter and spring. How do they do it?
- Added: Dec 21, 2010
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 2
Sediment is slowly choking the Rio Grande in the Big Bend region of Texas, causing more frequent floods and making it easier for invasive plants to...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Nov 19, 2010
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
You might think of plants as immobile, but they've evolved diverse strategies to scatter their offspring far and wide. What are some dispersal tact...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Nov 11, 2010
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
With their towering white trunks and fluttering leaves, quaking aspens are icons of the Rocky Mountains. Yet every fall, aspen stands paint West Te...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Nov 11, 2010
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
These tiny fish disappeared from Texas almost fifty years ago. But today, silvery minnows swim again in the Big Bend reach of the Rio Grande. What ...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Nov 05, 2010
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Insects and the world we humans share with them is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious. Our guest is anthropologist Hugh Raffles, the author...
- Added: Jun 07, 2010
- Length: 29:23
For millennia when couples were not able to conceive and bear their own children their options were somewhat limited, and not at all available if t...
- Added: Apr 26, 2010
- Length: 28:52
From: Chris Goldstein
Are new methods to help the environment solutions or scams? Independent journalist and author Heather Rogers traveled the globe to get the scoop on...
- Added: Apr 15, 2010
- Length: 29:00
In this edition of Radio Curious we’re visiting with Helen Menasian, director of the Redwood Valley Outdoor Education Project located north of Ukia...
- Added: Feb 22, 2010
- Length: 29:00
As part of a series of ‘Radio Curious on tour in Scotland’ we interview Jim Fairlie, the organizer of Farmers Markets in Scotland. Jim is a farmer...
- Added: Dec 07, 2009
- Length: 29:20
Do you know how the food you eat is raised? In this conversation host and producer Attorney Barry Vogel visits with Gene Baur, author of “Farm San...
- Added: Dec 07, 2009
- Length: 29:23
Why do you buy what you buy? What do you hope to gain from it and will it make you a happier, sexier and more successful person? In these days of e...
- Added: Dec 07, 2009
- Length: 29:00
The executive director of "Mendocino County Tomorrow", Robin Collier, known locally for her skills in making excellent cheese cake, is the guest on...
- Added: Oct 06, 2009
- Length: 31:44
Less than one percent of the earth's water is consumable, and many parts of the world may be heading toward water bankruptcy. Should private owners...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Sep 11, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Nov 26, 2008
- Length: 04:00
Putting lids on pots and pans to save electricity.
- Added: Sep 17, 2008
- Length: 04:00
We visit wetlands around the San Francisco Bay, where scientists are waging a scorched-marsh campaign against a devastating kind of East Coast grass.
- Added: Jan 04, 2008
- Length: 29:00
Guadeloupe uses Geothermal heat to create islands' energy source
- Added: Jan 29, 2007
- Length: 07:59
Romm is a former Asst. Secretary at the Department of Energy and director of the Center for Energy and Climate
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Jan 25, 2007
- Length: 29:21
- Purchases: 1
Active Voices: Neville Willams - Chasing the Sun: Solar Adventures Around the World, we discuss bringing rural households in India a Solar Electrif...
- Added: Nov 02, 2005
- Length: 05:33