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Caption: Bob Berwyn
Ice caps, or the apex of glaciers, are delicate things. As the earth warms, they respond by rapidly thawing into their oceanic homes. This week on ...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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Climate change science isn’t taught accurately — or equally — across the country. Investigative reporter Katie Worth dug into textbooks and talked ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KUHF, KOWS and more


  • Added: Jun 16, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 10
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Climate change science isn’t taught accurately — or equally — across the country. Investigative reporter Katie Worth dug into textbooks and talked ...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
Caption: Neel Dhanesha
What is a nurdle, you ask? Is it the latest variation on the popular New York Times puzzle, Wordle? No, not quite. Nurdles are the tiny little petr...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 25, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: William Moomaw
“It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land. The scale of recent changes are unprecedented over many centurie...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 18, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Susanne Rust
You may not have seen them running through your yard, but just wait. Feral pigs are everywhere and they’re a growing problem. This week on Sea Chan...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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When I was a boy vultures were called buzzards. It’s an interesting common name that came across the ocean with early British colonists who had no ...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 04:03
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It has been 3 million years since we’ve had this much CO2 in the atmosphere. Even if we stop all burning of fossil fuels today, humans have already...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KWIT, WMUU-LP, KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 13
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It has been 3 million years since we’ve had this much CO2 in the atmosphere. Even if we stop all burning of fossil fuels today, humans have already...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
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Humans must dramatically rein in greenhouse gas emissions in order to slow the planetary warming caused by centuries of fossil fuel combustion. But...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Mar 02, 2022
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 9
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Humans must dramatically rein in greenhouse gas emissions in order to slow the planetary warming caused by centuries of fossil fuel combustion. But...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2022
  • Length: 58:57
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In a 20-year time frame, methane is 80 times more damaging to the climate than carbon dioxide. Nationally, 37% of methane emissions come from cows....

Bought by Maine Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA and more


  • Added: Feb 24, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 10
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In a 20-year time frame, methane is 80 times more damaging to the climate than carbon dioxide. Nationally, 37% of methane emissions come from cows....

  • Added: Feb 24, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: Eric Lebel
When momentum starts to build, people like to exclaim, “Now we’re cooking with gas!” Well, a recent study out of Stanford University might have us ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 08, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Andrea Copping
We hear a lot about solar and wind power, but a renewable source of clean energy that continues to be largely untapped is the ocean. According to t...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Life beneath an Antarctic ice shelf and saving wildlife babies around the world.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Nov 23, 2021
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 1
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This week’s guest is Doug Chabot, Director of the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center. With winter fast approaching, we talk with Doug about ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 17, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
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Fully electrifying our homes, cars and industries could cut the amount of total energy we need by half, says Saul Griffith, an entrepreneur, invent...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WLPR , WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 14
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Fully electrifying our homes, cars and industries could cut the amount of total energy we need by half, says Saul Griffith, an entrepreneur, invent...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
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How are cities from Pittsburgh to Bogotá using sustainable development goals to guide pandemic recovery and increase health and equity?

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), RADIOLEX, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Oct 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Today's guests are Dr. Cathy Whitlock, Regents Professor of Paleoecology at Montana State University, and Dr. Steven Hostetler, Hydrologist at the ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 07, 2021
  • Length: 28:18
  • Purchases: 3
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In July of 2002 I produced an episode about the summer monsoon and spadefoots. It was so much fun to write and record. In July of 2013 I re-recorde...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2021
  • Length: 04:35
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The United States is famous for its car culture. But a hundred years ago, pedestrians didn’t want cars to take over the streets — and it took decad...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, Maine Public Radio, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA and more


  • Added: Jul 22, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 14
Caption: Tim Dickinson
For many of us, the increasing availability of Covid vaccinations glows brightly, a light at the end of what has been a long and dreary tunnel. For...

Bought by KWMR and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 02, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Alex Gilbert
All eyes have been on the Lone Star State recently, watching the grim and undeniable impact of climate change on a population completely unprepared...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:00