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Interview with Brian Sloan of North American Rising Tide on "green" energy.

  • Added: Jan 29, 2009
  • Length: 26:32
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The toll that war takes on human life and property is widely known. But we don't hear much about the devastating effects war has on wildlife and wi...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Remember elementary school when the nurse checked everyone's head for lice? Now, it's fish farmers who need to keep sea lice in check.

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  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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A beached whale is a heartbreaking sight. And while nobody's sure exactly why "beachings" occur, scientists have offered several theories.

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  • Added: Aug 19, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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This isn't how fertilizers are supposed to work. You'd think that more nutrients in water would be good for aquatic life.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Are elephants going crazy? They've been destroying villages, crops, and attacking -- sometimes killing -- humans. It's happening at an increasing r...

Bought by XRAY.fm and KOSU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
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The American West conjures up images of cowboys, cattle ranches, and unspoiled mountains under bright blue skies. But one icon of the west -- the a...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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In the groovy 60s we were singing "Where have all the flowers gone?" Could a day come when we'll sing the same about the honeybees?

  • Added: Jul 01, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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Earthquakes, floods, hurricanes -- these prime-time disasters send TV reporters dashing for their microphones. Droughts -- hmm, they're not so tele...

  • Added: May 30, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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When it comes to air pollution, every little particulate has a green card. It can just board the next wind current and take a ride to greener pastu...

  • Added: May 30, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
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Rachel Carson warned us. In 1962, she spoke out against the use of DDT in her book Silent Spring. I wonder what she would say about carbofuran tod...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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When rain refills a dried out pond, life soon returns to normal. Frogs croak, algae grows and dragonflies dart back and forth. But...that's only pa...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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Remember these lyrics from Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi? "Don't it always seem to go, That you don't know what you got till it's gone?" Unfortun...

Bought by WYOU


  • Added: Feb 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
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There's now a shortcut between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, courtesy of climate change.

Bought by WYOU


  • Added: Feb 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
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In April of 1990, biologist David Jude pulled a little bug-eyed fish from the Saint Claire River near Detroit. It was a Round Goby.

Bought by WYOU


  • Added: Feb 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
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The reintroduction of gray wolves to Yellowstone National Park marked the return of a symbol of the American West. The recent shooting of one in O...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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If you're wondering how our penguin friends in the Antarctic are doing these days, here are the cold, hard facts. Their poo is getting mighty pollu...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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We've all seen the tremendous destructive power of hurricanes. There were a record number of hurricanes in 2005, and future hurricane seasons may b...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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According to the Audubon Society, more than 20 species of common American birds in the eastern United States have plummeted, some by more than half...

Bought by KMXT and WEPS


  • Added: Nov 12, 2007
  • Length: 01:19
  • Purchases: 2
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It seemed like the right thing to do at the time. In India, tens of thousands of cows die each year. In the late 1980s, India's largely Hindu popul...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Aug 27, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Cassowaries are kind of, well, "unique" looking birds. They have a brownish casque crowning their heads and two red wattles on their necks that wig...

Bought by KMXT and Prairie Public


  • Added: Aug 27, 2007
  • Length: 01:13
  • Purchases: 2
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Just about everybody's seen Jaws, the hit movie about a monster shark that snacks on captains and coeds. But have you ever wondered how many sharks...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:06
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Nanotechnology is being used in all kinds of products with little government regulation.

Bought by KUOW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 18, 2007
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 2
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Water shortages could force us to rely on drinking water from treated sewage.

  • Added: Apr 16, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
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Invasive lionfish threaten native fish, but scientists say that lionfish are probably here to stay.

  • Added: Apr 16, 2007
  • Length: 01:32