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Daniel Kammen: The Perils of Deep-Sea Mining
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Daniel Kammen
Most of us have never been there but according to a quick Google search, some of the things you might see at the bottom of the ocean include sea sp...

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  • Added: Jan 24, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Look For The Helpers - Part 2
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
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In the second part of this special Clean Transportation mini-series Jess visits the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project to talk with co-f...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 29:01
782-Probing The Cosmic Web
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: A Cosmic Thread, Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Feige Wang (University of Arizona)
In the past two decades astronomers have discovered that galaxies are not randomly distributed in space but rather occur along filaments of mass wi...

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  • Added: Jan 21, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
781-Comet C/2023 V5 (Leonard)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Lemmon C/2023 H2, Credit: J.D. Maddy in the Hauchuca Astronomy Club
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Aquarius with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizo...

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  • Added: Jan 14, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
780-Scary Space Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Earth and an Asteroid, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was being filmed and interviewed by the NASA 360 crew at our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona ...

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  • Added: Jan 07, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
06-16: Cultural Mindshift: Full Spectrum Sustainability and Resilience, 1/10/2024
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: David Orr, Credit: Tim Porter
Climate is the trip wire for every other foundational ecological and biological system – as well as the basis for human civilization. As we face th...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
2024-01-01: Skunks, 1/1/2024
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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We learn all about skunks with world renown mephitologist, Dr. Jerry Dragoo. Mixed with great music sure to captivate kids of all ages.

  • Added: Dec 31, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
Skunks
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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We learn all about skunks with world renown mephitologist, Dr. Jerry Dragoo. Mixed with great music sure to captivate kids of all ages.

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 10
779-What If An Asteroid is About To Impact Earth?
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Concept of Asteroid Pulversation, Credit: Lubin 2021
A description of a research project whose goal to explore if it would be possible, on short notice, to pulverize a small asteroid so that it woul...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
778-Two Comets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Two Comets in Southern Skies , Credit: Jose J. Chambo (Cometografia)
Matching his wife’s discovery of two comets on the same observing run seven years previously my Catalina Sky Survey team caption Carson Fuls discov...

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  • Added: Dec 24, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Matt Simon on Microplastics, Pt. 2
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Matt Simon
Last week on Sea Change Radio, we learned that the plastics industry plans to triple production in the next 40 years, reaching 3 trillion pounds of...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
The Highest Stakes
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
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With the backdrop of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), Jess catches up with lawyer and climate negotiator Hafij Khan about the ...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Matt Simon on Microplastics, Pt. 1
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Matt Simon
Look around you: at this very moment, chances are that within a one-foot radius of your body, there’s something plastic. The ubiquity of plastic co...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
05-16: Climate Health, Your Health: Prevention Is Protection, 11/8/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Dr. Barbara Sattler
Climate disruption is harmful to your health. Dr. Linda Rudolph and Dr. Barbara Sattler are showing how our success or failure as a civilization ma...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
David Ho on Carbon Offsets: Much Ado About Nothing?
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: David Ho
Carbon offsets are often touted as a solution to humanity’s bad habit of emitting an awful lot of CO2. But how many of us actually know what things...

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  • Added: Oct 28, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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769-Green Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: C/2023 P1 (Nishimura), Credit: Trevinca-Skies on Spain
Given the effects of climate change today who can predict what planet Earth will be like when C/2023 P1(Nishimura) comes back near our home planet...

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  • Added: Oct 22, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Dust To Eat
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
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Jess digs into the science of soils and farming in the century of climate change with Dr. Rick Cruse of Iowa State University.

  • Added: Oct 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:49
767- A Really Tough Customer
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Nucleus, Credit: NASA
The more we learn about 322P/SOHO the stranger it becomes.

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  • Added: Oct 08, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Israeli Entrepreneur and Philanthropist Ziv Aviram on the EcoBridge Initiative
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Ziv Aviram
Have you ever thought about what you'd do to save the planet if you were a billionaire? Well, this week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with billiona...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
2023-09-15 The Nuclear Option
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Fourteen years after receiving its permit, the nation’s first new nuclear reactors in decades just fired up in Georgia. Massive, traditional nuclea...

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  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14
230915: The Nuclear Option, 9/15/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Fourteen years after receiving its permit, the nation’s first new nuclear reactors in decades just fired up in Georgia. Massive, traditional nuclea...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
251: Busting the Myth of Primate Patriarchy: The Nature of Sex and Gender in our Ape Relatives, 9/27/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Frans DeWaal Speaks at Bioneers 2022, Credit: Alex Akamine
World-renowned primatologist Professor Frans de Waal explores the nature of sex and gender among our cousins the apes, and how gender diversity is ...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Joseph McFadden: A Cattle Biologist Explains Feed Additives
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Joseph McFadden
Did you know that India accounts for about one-third of the world’s one billion head of cattle? Last week on Sea Change Radio, we spoke to the head...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
David Messina: Rumin8 Strives To Reduce Cow Methane Emissions
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: David Messina
When we think about greenhouse gas emissions, automobiles, airplanes, and power plants usually figure more prominently than livestock. The methane ...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
05-17: Nature’s Phoenix: Fire As Medicine, 9/6/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Chad Hanson
Contemporary Western fire science is integrating what Indigenous Peoples discovered over thousands of years of observation, and trial and error: fi...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:30