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It's Earth Day on The Children's Hour, and we meet Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernandez (NM) who explains how National Parks and National Wildernes...
- Added: Apr 10, 2024
- Length: 58:00
Trees have birthdays too, and scientists find out when they are by studying the rings of trees. This week on The Children's Hour, we learn how to d...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KTNA, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KRSC, Allegheny Mountain Radio and more
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 10
This time on The Children’s Hour, we learn about Manatees, the gentle giants of the sea. In a visit with Andrea Hermann from the Clearwater Marine ...
- Added: Jul 03, 2023
- Length: 58:00
This time on The Children’s Hour, we learn about Manatees, the gentle giants of the sea. In a visit with Andrea Hermann from the Clearwater Marine ...
Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), Allegheny Mountain Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KSTK, KRSC and more
- Added: Jul 03, 2023
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 9
We get into the woods with ecologist Dr. Lisa Markovchick to learn about forests, trees, and the critical role they play in sustaining life on Plan...
Bought by KCHU, KTNA, KSTK, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more
- Added: Jun 19, 2023
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 13
We get into the woods with ecologist Dr. Lisa Markovchick to learn about forests, trees, and the critical role they play in sustaining life on Plan...
- Added: Jun 18, 2023
- Length: 58:00
This time on The Children's Hour we learn how everyone can contribute to active scientific research by participating in Community Science with grou...
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), Allegheny Mountain Radio, KRSC, KECG and more
- Added: May 22, 2023
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 10
This time on The Children's Hour we learn how everyone can contribute to active scientific research by participating in Community Science with grou...
- Added: May 18, 2023
- Length: 58:00
- Added: May 03, 2023
- Length: 04:52
I could be over thinking the feeling I got when I saw that lone coati from the now named coati mundi bluff, but it was wonderful. The other flora a...
- Added: May 03, 2023
- Length: 04:17
The lack of affordable housing in the U.S. has contributed to a homelessness crisis and has forced people to move farther away from urban centers. ...
- Added: Feb 23, 2023
- Length: 58:59
For years, fossil fuel companies have claimed to support climate science and policy. Many have recently pledged to hit net zero emissions by midcen...
Bought by KZYX, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz and more
- Added: Dec 29, 2022
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 10
For years, fossil fuel companies have claimed to support climate science and policy. Many have recently pledged to hit net zero emissions by midcen...
- Added: Dec 29, 2022
- Length: 58:58
I grew and sold California buckthorn for several years. Early on I sold it wholesale to other nurseries, but I also sold it at Farmers Markets in C...
- Added: Dec 13, 2022
- Length: 04:18
Leslie Newton Goodding had a busy career. It was when he worked for the U. S. Department of Agriculture that he collected the type specimen for the...
- Added: Dec 07, 2022
- Length: 04:01
It was the American botanist Soreno Watson, that named the onion collected in Tanner’s Canyon of the Huachuca Mountains to honor Sara Plummer Lemmo...
- Added: Dec 07, 2022
- Length: 04:16
- Added: Dec 06, 2022
- Length: 04:01
The endlessly cyclical nature of life is depicted as four different stories in a sleepy Italian village.
- Added: Dec 06, 2022
- Length: 03:28
It’s fun to have favorite plants to look for on excursions into the hills. Looking back at photos and my notes, we have been checking on this parti...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:23
What a fun discovery in the desert east of Douglas, Arizona. There is just something about these large spinescent shrubs in the buckthorn family, R...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:22
The genus Heuchera is found in the saxifrage family, Saxifracaceae, with 80 other genera that includes the genus Saxifraga and its 400 species. Yikes!
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:16
There are a dozen species of Melampodium and I wonder which one Linnaeus was looking at when he honored Melampus with the genus name. And I wonder...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:28
It's true that every year I jump and shout about the fall blooming plants in the Aster family (Asteraceae) and I proclaim that there should be a fe...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:19
Fall gets me excited and fall color is a crazy combination of blooming plants and plants with leaves changing color as they prepare to go dormant. ...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 05:03
The botanical name for jackass clover is Wislizenia refracta and for clammy weed it’s Polanisia dodecandra. I translate those very cool names in th...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:00
