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Mining in Minnesota has been going on for decades, but today, economic and environmental issues are raising important questions about the industry....
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Mar 26, 2015
- Length: 06:16
- Purchases: 1
In 1857, economic hardship left farmers and other citizens bust. Looking for a way to earn money Minnesotans took to the forests to harvest ginseng...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 04:39
During the last 150 years, most of Minnesota’s native prairies have been destroyed—converted into farmland for crops like corn and soybeans. But a ...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 05:55
- Purchases: 1
Blue zones are areas of the world where people live longest. Architects studying these “Landscapes of Longevity” say that our surroundings have mor...
- Added: Feb 20, 2015
- Length: 03:28
- Purchases: 2
Last week on Sea Change Radio, we spoke with Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Bob Marshall about Louisiana’s shrinking coastline. And this week we...
- Added: Feb 10, 2015
- Length: 30:00
The Searsville Dam is causing big trouble on the peninsula. The 122-year-old, 65-foot-tall dam is closed to the public, hidden away on 1,200 acres ...
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 06:41
With so much focus on the BP oil spill and the havoc it has wrought on the Gulf Coast, it's easy to overlook the broader, more long-term environmen...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Feb 03, 2015
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
A tour around a newly undergrounded reservoir with Mark Brands, the landscape architect who designed the park to be built above it.
Bought by KLCC
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 05:18
- Purchases: 1
For over a decade, Oakland has attempted to abate the illegal dumping of mattresses, electronics, furniture, and other large items onto city street...
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 07:20
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Oct 28, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Oct 28, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Oct 09, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Oct 09, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
Kesterson Wildlife Refuge had a little known problem back in 1982: selenium contamination was leading to birth defects and death in fish and birds....
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 16:03
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
South Louisiana’s Terrebonne Parish has low unemployment — there are lots of jobs in offshore services. So many that there could be a shortage of l...
- Added: Aug 04, 2014
- Length: 04:46
- Added: Jul 21, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
Hawaii’s birds face multiple threats, but one small thrush on the island of Kaua’i is a success story – so far.
- Added: Jul 06, 2014
- Length: 01:00
Bone house wasps place dead ants in their nests to ward off predators and parasites.
- Added: Jul 06, 2014
- Length: 01:00
The legendary Hawaiian voyaging canoe, Hokulea, is sailing around the world using the ancient art of wayfinding, navigating without instruments. Th...
- Added: May 23, 2014
- Length: 04:19
Olive oil may help protect the cardiovascular system against the ill-effects of air pollution in cities.
- Added: May 21, 2014
- Length: 01:00
There are many ways to handle neighborhood flooding, beyond pumping stations and sewers. Some cities have realized that skate parks, of all places,...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 04:39
The California Clapper Rail is a bird that likes to be heard, but not seen. But today, on this windy morning at Arrowhead Marsh in Oakland, they ar...
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 07:13
New research sheds light on physical adaptations that allowed saber-tooth cats to hunt prey.
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 01:00
