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Living Planet 05/08/20
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Reinventing energy The tiny nation of Guyana is pinning development hopes on oil despite the price crash, Germany's renew...

Bought by WFIU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and KRZA


  • Added: May 12, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 3
589-Defending Earth
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The International Asteroid Warning Network, or IWAN (Eye-Whan) for short has been established to link scientists who are discovering, monitoring, a...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW and more


  • Added: May 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
World in Progress 05/07/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Coping with the coronavirus pandemic - We were on hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic that's still raging around the...

  • Added: May 07, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
588-Encounter With Saturn
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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From 1663 to 2011, seven comets had close encounters with Jupiter and two had close encounters with Saturn. In May of 1936, Comet P/2020 F1 Leonar...

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  • Added: May 02, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Living Planet 04/24/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: As parts of the world begin to carefully navigate their way out of the crisis, a few surprising consequences of the COVID-1...

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


  • Added: Apr 25, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
587-Quiet Sun
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Images of the quiet Sun during a solar minimum make it look like a relatively static peaceful place. Occasionally during solar minimum, at the Cosm...

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  • Added: Apr 24, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
585-Mini Moon II
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammates Kacper Wierzchos and Teddy Pruyne were asteroid hunting in the constellation of Virgo with our 60 inch telescope w...

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  • Added: Apr 10, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Living Planet 04/03/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Not so fantastic We're taking a look at our plastic world — from the oceans, to its place in our homes, to its original s...

Bought by WFIU


  • Added: Apr 08, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
584-Pop Up Comets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Virgo when he spotted a fuzzy ball with a tail moving thr...

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  • Added: Apr 03, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Living Planet 03/27/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: A rare breed - We hear stories about different species in the animal kingdom: nutria, pangolins, the golden lancehead pit...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KRZA, and WFIU


  • Added: Mar 27, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
582-Stealthy Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroids which approach Earth from inside of our orbit about the Sun are often difficult to discover and may represent a unique threat to our home...

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  • Added: Mar 20, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Living Planet 03/20/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: a limited resource - The purity of global water supplies faces numerous threats. To mark World Water Day, we hear abou...

Bought by WRGY, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WFIU


  • Added: Mar 20, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 3
Living Planet 03/13/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Growing solutions - As governments strive to wean themselves off fossil fuels, we visit Sweden to find out why wood cou...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WRGY, and WFIU


  • Added: Mar 13, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Living Planet 03/06/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: The persistence of plastic - Plastic — it’s forever, quite literally, as it only breaks down into ever-smaller pieces....

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


  • Added: Mar 06, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Living Planet 02/28/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Greening spaces - What's the role of sports when it comes to climate change? Spanish soccer club Real Betis has committed...

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


  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Living Planet 02/21/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Toxic times - How clean is our snow? Is it safe to eat for dogs? Scientists have found traces of dangerous substances ...

Bought by KRZA, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WFIU


  • Added: Feb 21, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Living Planet 01/24/20
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Ticking time bombs - One year after the Brumadinho dam collapse in Brazil that killed 270 people and wreaked havroc on t...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Jan 24, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
574-Record Year
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In 2019, asteroid hunters set a new record by discovering 2,433 Earth approaching objects including 85 which could potentially become a threat to p...

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  • Added: Jan 23, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
573-Sweet Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Over the past 50 years, in the interior of Australian meteorites, scientists have discovered a large variety of extraterrestrial organic substances...

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Living Planet 01/10/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Wildfires and reforestation - We've got trees on the brain in light of devastating wildfires raging across Australia. W...

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


  • Added: Jan 10, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
572-David's Fireball
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin's backyard all sky camera in Tucson, Arizona recorded a brilliant fireball meteor which took...

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  • Added: Jan 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
571-Comet Groeller
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Neat, Credit: NASA/NOAO/NSF/T. Rector/Z. Levay/L.Frattare
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groeller was asteroid hunting, in the constellation of Hydra, with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Ariz...

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  • Added: Jan 02, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
570-Catastrophic Wreckage
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently a group of high inclination asteroids hiding in Jupiter's shadow have been identified. Encounters with the giant planet's gravity could c...

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  • Added: Dec 28, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
568-Tough Space Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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At its closest point, a small space rock comes to only 1/3 of Mercury's average distance from the solar surface and receives 9 times the amount of...

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
World in Progress 12/12/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Cities vs. climate change - As the UN's climate change conference COP 25 wraps up in Madrid, we take a look at how ci...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2019
  • Length: 30:00