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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
566-October Fest
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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October of 2019 was a record breaking month for my team the Catalina Sky Survey during which we discovered 240 Earth approaching asteroids. This di...

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  • Added: Nov 29, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Living Planet 11/29/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
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This week on the show: Toxic flow - We look at river systems under pressure and what that means for biodiversity; human health and the livel...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
565-Ancient Crater
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In ancient times, Aboriginal people in southwestern Australia quarried fine grained rock on an ancient hill called Barlangi Rock to make very sharp...

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  • Added: Nov 22, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
564-Heavy Traffic
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In the space of less than 13 hours four small space rocks zipped through the Earth-Moon neighborhood. All of them were discovered by my team, the N...

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  • Added: Nov 16, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Living Planet 11/15/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: New species and old breeds - This week we have stories of discovering new species, those that have made a home out of an ...

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


  • Added: Nov 15, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Living Planet 10/25/2019
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 origi...

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


  • Added: Oct 25, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
561-Hannes Is Back
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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During the monsoon rainy season, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate, Hannes Groeller took a vacation in his native Austria. Returning to begin the fa...

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  • Added: Oct 23, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
560-Wet Nights
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Siding Spring Observatory, Credit: www.destinationsjourney.com
One of the most frustrating situations for an asteroid hunter is a night when the stars are shining bright above the mountain but the humidity is s...

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Living Planet 10/11/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the Show: Struggle for survival - This week, we look at how melting sea ice is threatening the survival of polar bears in the Arct...

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  • Added: Oct 10, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
558-Exploring The Lunar South Pole
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The race to explore the Moon by robots and eventually human lunar colonists is on. Near the lunar south pole human space colonists could use solar ...

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  • Added: Oct 04, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
557-Back On The Sky
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In the American southwest we welcome the Monsoon rainy season during which the Earth receives much needed moisture. However, after six weeks of clo...

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  • Added: Sep 27, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Living Planet 09/27/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: The much anticipated IPCC report on the oceans and the cryosphere sets out the full extent to which the world’s oceans, gla...

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


  • Added: Sep 26, 2019
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 3
World in Progress 09192019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: As the world gears up for a global climate strike to demand urgent action on climate change, we hear from people who are a...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
555-Dead Comet Dust
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Phoenicids are a minor meteor shower which was discovered by the first Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition on December 5, 1956. To spot the ...

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  • Added: Sep 13, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Living Planet 09/13/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Given Half a Chance - The dilemma of our times — our fast-moving, convenient lifestyles are polluting the planet and he...

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  • Added: Sep 12, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
554-Martian Rolling Stones
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Imagine how strange and wonderful it would be to witness such an event. When the impacting object hit it produced huge boulders, which held loose...

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  • Added: Sep 06, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
553-Exploring The Far Side
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Chinese, Chang'e 4 made a soft landing on the far side of the Moon where it is impossible to have direct radio communications with the Earth. I...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
551-Exploding Space Rocks
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In 2018 there were 15 Meteorite Fall Events for which observers saw a fireball streaking across the sky which then led to the discovery of pieces o...

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  • Added: Aug 16, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
IE: Inside Europe, 8/16/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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This week on the show: Italy's Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini's 'Beach Tour' . Salvini's call for a swift no-confidence vote is rejected by...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
Living Planet 08/09/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Seeing the forest for the trees - This week on Living Planet, we take a look at forests and how we use land. What benef...

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


  • Added: Aug 09, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
IE: Inside Europe, 8/2/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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This week on the show: Britain ramps up preparations for a no-deal Brexit; The new UK PM Boris Johnson tours Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
549-Weirdest Star
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently the Kepler Spacecraft found that a catalogue star HD 139139 now nicknamed the "Random Transiter" had 28 apparently random sharp narrow di...

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  • Added: Aug 01, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
World in Progress 08/01/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: No room for complacency - As the fighting dies down in some parts of Syria, we travel to the war-torn country to meet ...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
548-Dragonfly
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In our solar system the most exotic body which contains the complex organic molecules necessary for life is Saturn's Moon Titan. NASA's Dragonfly...

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  • Added: Jul 26, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8