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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...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Jan 24, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week, a deep dive into the fascinating story behind a 3D-printed house made entirely of bio-based materials. We spoke with people behind BioHo...

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


  • Added: Jan 19, 2024
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Darren Samuelsohn
The self-proclaimed “greatest country on earth” is in an unfathomable position. Heavily favored to win the Republican Party’s nomination for presid...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Bob Berwyn
COP28, or the 28th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Climate Change Conference, took place recently in the United Arab...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
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This week on the show: Americans across the United States are grappling with unprecedented extreme weather events. And if you travel across the cou...

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


  • Added: Dec 22, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Lauren Kim
A study from 2022 found that people who identified as non-religious or atheist were more likely to identify as pro-environment, as compared with re...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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
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
Caption: Scott Hechinger
It’s that time of year when as the weather gets colder we warm ourselves with thoughts of gratitude and giving, which, for many, includes charitabl...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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This week, World in Progress travels to Southern Spain, where the city of Seville provides very different experiences to tourists and residents. We...

Bought by WFHB and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
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...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Oct 28, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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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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Did you see any of the celebrity-backed ads for the slew of now defunct crytpo businesses? Did they leave you scratching your head at the time? It ...

Bought by KMUN and WORT


  • Added: Oct 24, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • 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
Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series
My guest today, Dr. Noah Whiteman, tells us to scratch beneath the surface of a coffee bean, a red pepper flake, a poppy seed, a mold spore, a foxg...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2023
  • Length: 35:16
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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
Caption: Chathu Gamage
Humans have been making steel in some form or other for over two millennia - and consistently re-using and recycling it along the way. This week on...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Dan Dicker
It's hard not to notice how sky high gas prices are these days. Perhaps the universe is trying to tell us something about our personal transportati...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series
It is rare for life to change Earth, yet three organisms have profoundly transformed our planet over the long course of its history. Elemental reve...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2023
  • Length: 41:55

  • Added: Sep 21, 2023
  • Length: 30:37
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
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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
Caption: James Martinez
Did you know that over 100,000 tennis balls are used in an average grand slam tournament? And unfortunately, they cannot be recycled. Given the ple...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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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: John Stoehr
If you’ve happened to tune in to MSNBC or CNN on a day when a massive hurricane is not pummeling a coastal region, you might think that the only ma...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2023
  • Length: 29:00