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GN_4.13_Water Sports
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Dutch engineers find a way to bring drinkable water to South Africans by combining it with their favorite sporting pastime.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_4.15_Edible Spoon
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Why throw away your spoon if you can eat it? A new solution to disposable plastic utensils.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_4.02_Eco Cooler
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A clever re-using of plastic brings cool comfort to millions.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_7.24_Salt Water Sanitation
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 7
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Researchers from Saudi Arabia’s set out to solve the dilemma of conserving the Earth's scarce resource—freshwater—by developing a salt water toilet.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Mar 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 1
629-Loneliest Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Canes Venatici with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, ...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Feb 14, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
623-Arecibo
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The National Science Foundation has announced that it will close and decommission the giant RADAR telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Ri...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, WLPR , KKRN and more


  • Added: Jan 01, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Living Planet 05/08/20
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Reinventing energy The tiny nation of Guyana is pinning development hopes on oil despite the price crash, Germany's renew...

Bought by WFIU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and KRZA


  • Added: May 12, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 3
578-First PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Assuming the first potentially hazardous asteroid of 2020 has a chemical composition similar to the stony meteorites we find on Earth, it could co...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Living Planet 02/14/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Battery powered - We take a look at lithium-ion batteries — how they are both necessary to ending our dependence on foss...

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


  • Added: Feb 14, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Spectrum 02/05/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Do I scare you? - "Careful, he's Chinese." It was a throwaway comment whispered in a German pedestrian zone. But it jo...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Feb 05, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Spectrum 11/12/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: You be careful out there - Indoor plants aren’t as good for you as you might think, why 12 million seahorses died (and ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Living Planet 11/01/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Adaptation & Change - How do we inspire the fundamental changes that are needed to safeguard our planet? On this program...

Bought by WRGY, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WFIU


  • Added: Oct 31, 2019
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 3
Spectrum 10/01/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Happiness, fear and our atmosphere - Our boiling hot planetary neighbor, Venus, might have once been similar to Earth. S...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Oct 02, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Spectrum 07/09/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Send in the bots! - Right now, hundreds of power plants around the world are splitting atoms. But when a reactor malfunc...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jul 10, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Spectrum 06/25/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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On this week's show: Buzzing and flapping - It's all about bugs and birds. Is it end times for entomology, the study of insects? Can high-freque...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum 06/11/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Goodnight, stars - A viral video from the Netherlands shows how satellite constellations may end up ruining the night s...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jun 12, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
World in Progress 05/23/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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World in Progress: Urban futures - On this week's show, we head to Singapore where 100 scientists have gathered for the Future Cities Laborat...

  • Added: May 22, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
Living Planet 04/12/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: High tech farming - Drones flying above farms in the United Kingdom, app-based farming in Uganda and improving potato far...

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


  • Added: Apr 11, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Living Planet 03/08/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Waste not - From Scotland to South Africa, the Himalayas to Hawaii, this week we feature stories from around the wor...

Bought by KRZA, KMUN, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WFIU


  • Added: Mar 07, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
Living Planet 03/01/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Move fast and build things - From origami-like electric cars, to drones taking out a rat infestation in the Galapagos, to...

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


  • Added: Feb 28, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Living Planet 01/18/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: From fossil fuels to water usage, our consumption has causes hidden environmental damage further along the supply chain....

Bought by KMUN, KRZA, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WFIU


  • Added: Jan 17, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
Living Planet 01/11/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Humans have an interesting relationship with meat. Some love it, some object to it and some simply want other options fro...

Bought by KMUN, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WFIU


  • Added: Jan 11, 2019
  • Length: 29:58
  • Purchases: 3
Spectrum 12/25/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: "Take a bite" Toxic banana production in Ecuador, growing your own vegetables at the supermarket, and the story of a piran...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum 12/04/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: A hyperloop dream for Europe - Amsterdam to Barcelona in about an hour. Wouldn't it be great if Europe had its very ow...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
Living Planet 10/19/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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Our Changing Planet: when it comes to a world limit for global warming, 1.5 is the new 2 degrees. If temperatures continue to rise we may lose ou...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KRZA, KMUN, and KUPR low power FM


  • Added: Oct 19, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4