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This week on the show: Rethinking conservation (rebroadcast). We head to South Africa, Kenya and Namibia to look at different ways conservation has...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and Radio Kansas


  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on the show: On Saturday, in the early morning hours of October 7th, Hamas terrorists fired thousands of rockets into Israel and stormed ...

Bought by WFHB and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Oct 12, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on the show: Peat is big business and great for farming. But it's also an increasing climate problem. Because when taking it out of wetla...

Bought by WFHB, WXDU, and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Oct 04, 2023
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 3
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This week on the show: The growing microplastics problem. Microplastics have been found everywhere — from the deepest parts of the ocean to the hei...

Bought by WFHB, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and Radio Kansas


  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 3
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This week on the show: We hear from people in California whose home insurers have left them in the lurch as weather extremes intensify in the state...

Bought by Radio Kansas and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Sep 08, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Nithin Coca
The new generation of veggie burgers do taste more like meat than their sawdust-leaning predecessors. And most agree that plant-based meat alternat...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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This week on the show: Water woes & how to combat water scarcity. What do you do if there isn't enough fresh drinking water around? According to th...

Bought by WBAA, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and Radio Kansas


  • Added: Aug 24, 2023
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 3
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This week we ran an episode swap with the very interesting and inspiring true-crime climate podcast, Drilled - the first episode from their new sea...

Bought by Radio Kansas


  • Added: Jun 02, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Daniel Pye
Backed by some of the world’s wealthiest people like Jeff Bezos and Michael Bloomberg, the Protecting our Planet (POP) campaign has a mission to en...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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This week on the show: Are two of the world’s most beloved beverages – coffee and wine – viable in a world warped by climate change? And how's the ...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: Jeff Stoike
As the winter chill of February continues to prickle the skin, the warm tides of the Bahamas may sound particularly appealing. This week on Sea Cha...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Philip Jacobson
If you were a kid in the 1970s, you undoubtedly were at least a little terrified of going into the ocean - a fear placed squarely in your subconsci...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Juan Cole
When it comes to the Middle East and the environment, many of us think first about the area's role in petroleum production. But climate change is h...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Bob Berwyn
Ice caps, or the apex of glaciers, are delicate things. As the earth warms, they respond by rapidly thawing into their oceanic homes. This week on ...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Lara Gilmore
As millions of American families gather this week for their Thanksgiving feasts, we thought we'd take a peek behind the curtain at one of the world...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sharman Russell
As Anne Frank wrote in her diary, “hunger is not a problem, it is an obscenity.” This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak to author Sharman Apt Russ...

  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Eriel Deranger
The list of crimes committed in the name of so called “progress” includes modern offenses such as the Trump Administration’s effort to sell off Nat...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Joe Brewer
For environmentalists “agriculture” can be something of a dirty word, associated with other words such as, pesticides, water consumption, pollutant...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Mar 27, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Christian Poirier
Over the past fifty years, around 17% of the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed, according to the World Wildlife Fund, but as this week’s guest o...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 16, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Dan Austin
A generation ago, the dream of owning a bicycle was one shared by a vast number of American kids. While the explosion of competitors like video gam...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Jessica McCarty
You may have seen some headlines recently declaring that “The Arctic is on Fire!” Are these just sensationalist reports? Or do these fires represen...

  • Added: Aug 07, 2019
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Icebergs at Sunset, Greenland, Credit: Lee Narraway, Students on Ice 2017
We’ve all heard that hopping on a plane is one of the worst things we can do for the climate. So how do we justify the environmental costs of world...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KWIT, and NPR Now


  • Added: Jun 05, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Peter Knights
Have you ever seen one of those ads with a celebrity like Jackie Chan or Leonardo DiCaprio beside a beautiful, rare animal? If so, there’s a good c...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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Chinese factories churn out parts and products that end up in our cars, our kitchens and our cell phones. And all that productivity has improved th...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KFOI Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Oct 17, 2018
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 7