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Is Carbon Capture Essential to Fighting Climate Change?

From: Open to Debate

When it comes to carbon dioxide, 2022 was a record year. So...what can be done? One potential method is called carbon capture and storage, a techno...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WNED Buffalo, and KUNM

2022-01-14 Should Nature Have Rights?

From: Climate One
Series: Climate One

If corporations can be legal persons, why can’t Mother Earth? In 2017, New Zealand granted the Whanganui River the full legal rights of a person....

Bought by WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WDSE and more

220114: Should Nature Have Rights?, 1/14/2022

From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed

If corporations can be legal persons, why can’t Mother Earth? In 2017, New Zealand granted the Whanganui River the full legal rights of a person....

Permian Extinction

From: KZMU Moab Community Radio
Series: Science Moab

A unique combination of events came together at the end of Permian time (250 million years ago)that resulted in the extinction of more the 90% of l...

Bought by KDXI - Radio St George

Speaking Across Knowledges: A conversation about Indigenous ways of Knowing and Western Science

From: KZMU Moab Community Radio
Series: Science Moab

There is a lot of Western science happening here on the Colorado Plateau but there is also long-held Indigenous knowledge that is centered on knowi...

Bought by KDXI - Radio St George and KGNU Community Radio

Rare Paiute cutthroat trout reintroduced to native habitat, a 30 year saga for Bill Somer

From: Brian Bahouth
Series: The Wild Hare

Bill Somer is a senior environmental scientist for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. In 1988 he joined the effort to reestablish the ...

Bought by KRZA and KNVC Carson City Community Radio

Reconstructing the Ice Age

From: KZMU Moab Community Radio
Series: Science Moab

Unexplored caves can store a wealth of information about the past. Here we talk with Dr. Tim Heaton who studies the Ice Age mammals found in caves....

Bought by WVTF, KDXI - Radio St George, and KRZA

2017-09-10 Yvon Chouinard: Founding Patagonia and Living Simply

From: Climate One
Series: Climate One

Yvon Chouinard is a legendary climber, surfer and environmentalist. He is also the reluctant entrepreneur who founded Patagonia, Inc., one of the m...

Bought by KQUA, KBBI Alaska, WRGY, KGNU Community Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more

Right Relationship with Mother Earth - Dr. Jim Collins and Peggy Rebol on Unspun

From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling

Unspun honors local environmental advocates, Peggy Rebol and Dr. Jim Collins, as we look at our relationships with Mother Earth and current environ...

Bought by 'The Sea' and KMUD

More on Water

From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio

Fresh water is the topic of discussion once again on World Ocean Radio. In this episode host Peter Neill re-asserts the gravity of the global fresh...

Voices Of Gentrification Paint A Picture Of A Changing Seattle

From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media

RadioActive's Paul Kiefer and Lola Garcia collect the voices of people affected by gentrification in Seattle to paint a picture of our changing city.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

The Arctic Council

From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio

In 1996, the high level intergovernmental Arctic Council was formed to promote cooperation and interaction among the Arctic states. In this episode...

Fire on the Mountain: Climate Change, Fire, and the Ecological Future of the American West

From: Aengus Anderson

Caption: In the summer monsoon season, grass carpets the Chiricahua foothills., Credit: Aengus Anderson

In the wake of a catastrophic fire, researchers use Arizona's Chiricahua Mountains to look centuries into the future of climate change and ask "wha...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA

The Importance of Wild Rice

From: WDSE
Series: Ojibwe Stories: Gaganoonididaa

Larry Amik Smallwood, a language instructor at the University of Minnesota Duluth, in both Ojibwe and English, talks about the harvesting of wild r...

Bought by Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KFAI Minneapolis and more

52 Hz

From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds

Caption: A humpback whale surfacing, Credit: Craig Shank

52 Hz is the name given to a mysterious whale that vocalizes at a different frequency than other whales. Some refer to him as "The World's Lonelies...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Hark!, KALW, New Hampshire Public Radio, WTIP and more

Culturology: Dan Sinykin reviews "The Long Shining Waters" by Danielle Sosin

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology

Danielle Sosin's novel, "The Long Shining Waters," tells three stories of three women living around the shores of Lake Superior in three distinct t...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ

Restoring The American Chestnut

From: Hal B Klein

Caption: American chestnut grove in Sewickley, PA. , Credit: Hal B. Klein

Those chestnuts "roasting on an open fire" in the iconic "Christmas Song" have a secret. They're European. The American chestnut was once a keysto...

Bought by KLCC and WRST-FM Oshkosh

Reclaiming the Holidays

From: Humankind

Caption: Annie Leonard - "The Story of Stuff'"

This special profiles people from different backgrounds who seek to get past the consumer frenzy of the December holidays, and to focus more on aut...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, Nevada Public Radio, Prairie Public, WRIR, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more

Empire of Corn: From Cornucopia to Corporate Commodity

From: A World of Possibilities

Corn: that most American of grains. These days corn is feed, fuel and ubiquitous sweetener, the biggest of business and some say the core of an ind...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, and WRPI

Hustlers, Street Vendors, and Farmers

From: Youth Radio

King Anyi Howell visits a farmer's market in Los Angeles aimed at attracting African American customers. The market wants to bring fresh produce to...

Bought by YouthCast

Seeing the Small

From: Ari Daniel
Series: Ocean Gazing

Caption: Rob Olson and Heidi Sosik developed an automated underwater microscopic camera that takes photographs of phytoplankton in the ocean., Credit: Tom Kleindinst, WHOI

Heidi Sosik and Rob Olson describe how a shared frustration led them to develop a special underwater camera that takes pictures of tiny cells in th...