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Streams turned bright-orange from Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) are a common sight throughout the coalfields. The orange is essentially iron that comes...
- Added: Aug 05, 2016
- Length: 13:49
Jeffrey Friedman talks water, politics, and surviving civilization.
- Added: Aug 04, 2016
- Length: 08:07
On Wednesday, a group of New York-based underwater explorers announced they discovered a mid-nineteenth-century shipwreck that's been hiding in the...
Bought by WSKG, WCMU Michigan, WBFO, and WCPN
- Added: Jun 29, 2016
- Length: 01:23
- Purchases: 4
Unwanted and old fabrics often get thrown away, but they have a large value to the environment and local communities when they are recycled.
- Added: May 09, 2016
- Length: 03:15
Because of historically cheap energy rates and lots of poorly insulated housing, Kentuckians’ average home electricity use is one of the highest in...
- Added: Apr 21, 2016
- Length: 12:49
-Pulitzer Prize winning author Dan Fagin on how a small town fought against pollution and the polluters.
-Marc Edwards who helped uncover the water...
- Added: Apr 15, 2016
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 6
9-11- 14 WMMT Mountain News & World Report Feature
Coal mining jobs have dropped around Cleveland, VA, but when residents looked around they reali...
- Added: Apr 08, 2016
- Length: 09:25
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Bernie Sanders Supporters Should Have a Plan B: Build a Movement; Connecti...
- Added: Feb 03, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
There are molecules that are heating our planet. Our host asks Michael Mann, a climate change expert, how.
Bought by Monarch Radio
- Added: Dec 14, 2015
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
California wants to deprive you of fuel, and that's why you're already paying a new "global warming" tax.
- Added: Sep 03, 2015
- Length: 15:58
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
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
Our Desired Future is a 30 minute radio documentary designed for public radio to educate Texans on the interdependence of our groundwater, springs ...
Bought by Marfa Public Radio and KWBU
- Added: Jun 12, 2015
- Length: 54:57
- 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
Man and wolf have long had a fraught relationship; in medieval Europe the wolf was the defiler, the destroyer, the devil, and that narrative hasn’t...
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 07:11
Why did 12 seemingly healthy deer die off near a deer feeding station in New Hampshire in the middle of February? We explore answers to this questi...
- Added: May 04, 2015
- Length: 01:29:15
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
Climate change is here affecting weather conditions and sea levels. In India it's also having a more surprising influence on the country's tigers. ...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Apr 05, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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
