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Since 2002, powerful currents in the Great Lakes have caused more than 150 drownings, researchers say. A look at the science behind the currents.
Bought by WVBI-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WRVO Public Media, WMUK, Delta College Public Radio and more
- Added: Aug 12, 2016
- Length: 03:37
- Purchases: 9
An anthropologist comments on the complicated relationship in Bolivia between the natural gas industry and those who want to protect the environmen...
- Added: Oct 27, 2015
- Length: 12:00
Geologist Phil Skemer gets to crush rocks for a living. Find out how and why he and his team build instruments that can mimic conditions deep insid...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Jun 12, 2015
- Length: 12:55
- Purchases: 1
To understand rocks like banded iron formations, researcher Steven Chemtob has to approach the ancient formations in a variety of ways.
- Added: Jun 10, 2015
- Length: 09:12
If you send scientists to the beach, they may come back with the next way to produce biofuels. But it takes a lot of collaboration along the way.
- Added: May 15, 2015
- Length: 09:36
It's like gang warfare, but with really tiny gang members. Some microbes provide their relatives with protection, emitting antibiotics that kill of...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 15, 2015
- Length: 04:07
- Purchases: 1
Imagine a landscape dressed in trees, dressed in grass, dressed in water. Now what if you could pull that all away? What would remain? In this show...
- Added: Mar 05, 2015
- Length: 27:18
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 08:15
- Purchases: 1
Diamond, Demetrius, Josh and Kevin interview Jamin Bogi (Group Against Smog and Pollution), Phil Johnson (The Heinz Endowments) and Neil Donahue (C...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 03:26
The Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge Wilderness Area is one of the largest preserved marsh lands in the United States.
- Added: Jan 09, 2015
- Length: 18:38
A hand-drawn map on a dining room table in a Colorado home was the main reason the spectacular Maroon-Bells Snowmass Wilderness was one of the firs...
Bought by Aspen Public Radio and KGNU Community Radio
- Added: Sep 10, 2014
- Length: 26:45
- Purchases: 2
The Lower 9th Ward's Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle of today is what is called a “ghost swamp”. Until the 1960s, it was a full of cypress trees, ...
- Added: Jun 03, 2014
- Length: 18:02
Brent Sicard, President and CEO of Lueken’s Village Foods grocery stores, announced plans for the local chain to grow and sell its own produce, as ...
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 20:16
Saving Crystal Cove - The story of Laura Davick, an accidental activist, who used the California Coastal Act to save the historic 1930's cottages i...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 21:58
Bicyclists take to the streets en mass in a fight over the ‘right to the city’.
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KTSW 89.9, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WXDU and more
- Added: Oct 24, 2012
- Length: 53:31
- Purchases: 13
Here's the first episode in our “Summer Dispatches” series, in which reporter Megan Molteni braves the scarred landscape of Colorado Springs after...
- Added: Oct 02, 2012
- Length: 13:57
Fewer than 800 Mountain Gorillas remain making them one the world's most endangered species. For more than 20 years people around the world have be...
- Added: Jun 20, 2012
- Length: 11:06
So often, when a natural resource is being developed, we hear of a two-sided debate: it’s jobs versus the environment, and you can’t have both. In ...
- Added: May 04, 2012
- Length: 09:58
In this installment of Fractured Appalachia, producers Jonathan Hootman and Rich Kirby take a look at what regulations exist surrounding oil and ga...
- Added: May 04, 2012
- Length: 06:26
In this piece, producers Jonathan Hootman and Rich Kirby examine the process of how a gas well is drilled, using technology developed within the la...
- Added: May 04, 2012
- Length: 10:05
In this installment of Fractured Appalachia, we hear about the legal arrangements that govern the royalties that people receive from natural gas ex...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 04, 2012
- Length: 12:31
- Purchases: 1
In this installment, producers Jonathan Hootman and Rich Kirby examine both the importance and the difficulty of soliciting legal advice before sig...
- Added: May 04, 2012
- Length: 07:53
The first contact people have with the gas industry is often a meeting with a landman. Land agents, generally men, work for gas companies, usually ...
- Added: May 04, 2012
- Length: 08:31
In our first episode, we begin our documentary series by starting at the bottom, with the rocks underneath our feet. What exactly is under the grou...
- Added: May 04, 2012
- Length: 06:46
- Added: Apr 23, 2012
- Length: 01:30
