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Recent floods in Texas and Oklahoma cost the country over $3 billion in economic losses. In some areas of the country, floods are growing in intens...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Nov 23, 2015
- Length: 08:45
- Purchases: 1
What's the perfect environment for a fern species dating back 65 million years? Look no further than Washington, D.C.'s subway system.
Bought by WABE
- Added: Oct 26, 2015
- Length: 05:52
- Purchases: 1
Recorded on an iphone while on vacation 2 miles away from a wildfire.
Recorded for KCRW's 24 Hour Radio Race.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Aug 17, 2015
- Length: 04:35
- Purchases: 1
A new study suggests baby marmosets’ calls change as they grow up, overturning more than 50 years of conventional wisdom about primate vocalizations.
- Added: Aug 15, 2015
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 2
Differences in animals’ pupil shapes distinguish predators from prey.
- Added: Aug 08, 2015
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 2
Climate scientist and MacArthur "Genius" award-winner Ben Santer says scientists don't yet know if climate change is affecting the timing of the se...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Jul 20, 2015
- Length: 02:24
- Purchases: 1
Climate scientist and MacArthur "Genius" award-winner Ben Santer on how scientists know that climate change is not just due to the Sun.
- Added: Jul 17, 2015
- Length: 04:02
Colorado is one of many states that has tried to create a cash for recycling program, or bottle bill. However, opposition from some surprising sour...
- Added: Jul 10, 2015
- Length: 06:31
What’s behind the sudden surge in earthquakes in the middle of the United States?
- Added: Jun 13, 2015
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 2
A tiny Australian bird sets off false alarms to fool predators.
- Added: Jun 05, 2015
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 2
For such a small region, this sprawling landscape of the Bootheel has some of the most productive farmland in the U.S. A solid water supply and nut...
- Added: Jun 03, 2015
- Length: 06:50
A meta-analysis of organic farming profits indicates the practice makes economic sense.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Jun 02, 2015
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
A critically endangered fish may be making up for to a lack of mates by reproducing without sex.
- Added: Jun 02, 2015
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 2
Coffee, tea, and cocoa are just some of the crops that could be affected by rising carbon dioxide levels and temperatures brought on by climate cha...
Bought by WLPR
- Added: May 30, 2015
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: May 23, 2015
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: May 04, 2015
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
Can the Appalachian Mountains recover from centuries of mining? What will happen to the thousands of coal miners projected to lose their jobs in th...
Bought by Wyoming Public Radio
- Added: Apr 28, 2015
- Length: 51:59
- Purchases: 1
More than a million acres of strip-mined land—an area the size of Rhode Island—are now deforested in Appalachia.
Bought by WMMT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 24, 2015
- Length: 06:18
- Purchases: 3
The Hetch Hetchy Regional Water system, operated by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (PUC), carries water to 2.6 million customers in ...
- Added: Apr 21, 2015
- Length: 04:57
In 2014, Florida voters passed Amendment 1—the Florida Water and Land Conservation Amendment—by a sweeping 75%. Advocates believe this should send ...
- Added: Apr 09, 2015
- Length: 11:42
San Francisco is a biodiversity hotspot. Its vast parks are home to more than 50 types of mammals. Now, the city named after the patron saint of an...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 06:40
- Purchases: 1
The population of wild turkeys in the United States has been growing steadily throughout the country, and the trend holds true here in California. ...
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 08:21
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
In Florida's Miami-Dade County, tensions are mounting over a fragment of endangered pine rockland.
- Added: Feb 17, 2015
- Length: 13:31
