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  • Added: Jun 21, 2023
  • Length: 06:33
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Pros & Cons of Fossil Fuels

  • Added: Jun 21, 2023
  • Length: 10:58
Caption: Author Earl Swift
Interview with Earl Swift, author of Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island.

  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:53
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Arches are always vibrating. The unique size and shape of each arch produces a unique wave frequency that it vibrates at. We talk with Jeff Moore...

Bought by KDXI - Radio St George


  • Added: Apr 20, 2021
  • Length: 18:22
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Jul 03, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
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Are we all “bystanders” when it comes to responding rationally to the serious environmental crises faced by our civilization? How is our behavior s...

Bought by Indie3 Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Apr 17, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: A Moment of Science
Can Lightning Strike You in the Shower

  • Added: Feb 27, 2018
  • Length: 02:00

  • Added: Feb 27, 2018
  • Length: 02:00

  • Added: Jun 09, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: Philip Warburg
American is standing on the brink of an extraordinary revolution: an energy revolution.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 29, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Investigative journalist Lou Freshwater writes: "In the middle of the United States there is a landfill contaminated by nuclear waste which was lef...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2015
  • Length: 28:43
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Kolbert discusses the powerful and possibly catastrophic mass extinction unfolding right in front of us. Her book won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for N...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2015
  • Length: 30:01
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In May 1975, Popular Mechanics published an article called “Cities In The Sky”, about plans for space colonies by 1995. Flash forward forty years a...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: Pinball the Humpback whale, Credit: Craig Shank
52 Hz is the name given to a mysterious whale that vocalizes at a different frequency than other whales. Some refer to him as "The World's Lonelies...

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Jul 18, 2013
  • Length: 15:17
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sea Orbiter, Credit: http://seaorbiter.com/home/
Advances in technology bring us new, visionary underwater devices to record and transmit observational data. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, ...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2013
  • Length: 05:20
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Bringing countries together to protect our natural environment looks good on paper. Real good, in fact.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Oct 26, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Testudinella patina, Credit: T. Schröder, R.L. Wallace, E. Walsh
Every pristine spring, mucky cattle tank, and rain-filled hueco in the Chihuahuan Desert is home to an exceptionally diverse array of microscopic a...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Apr 07, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Believe it or not, sometimes, it’s a good idea to be “as cold as ice.” Take, for example, the arctic ground squirrel. He's a creature that knows a ...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Dec 21, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Garbage and noise. Sounds like the latest rock group. But no, turns out the two are much more useful. In fact, garbage and noise are actually being...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Dec 21, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Why build a house when you can grow one? So says sustainable building designers at Britain's University of Bath. They recently created a home from ...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Oct 25, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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If you think songbird songs are wonderfully complex, you’re going to find this story simply amazing.

Bought by WTIP and KOSU


  • Added: May 25, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
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We all know divorce can be painful for those involved. And now, researchers at the University of Michigan have determined that divorce also hurts t...

  • Added: May 25, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
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The biggest winner from Beijing, China's 2008 Olympic Games may be the environment.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
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What does rain forest conservation have to do with preventing malaria? In the Amazon rainforest, the means to these two ends are virtually one in t...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
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Ever think to yourself, “California and Iceland sure have a lot in common”? Probably not. But if you dig beneath the surface, they both harbor lots...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2010
  • Length: 01:30