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474-Earth-Venus Shuttle

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

A 100 foot diameter asteroid is spotted on one of it's regular trips between the orbits of Venus and Earth. It's ultimate fate is to collide with o...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, Bandon Community Radio, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KSFR and more

Added: Jun 29, 2018
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 7

473-Ryugu Bound

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is conducting a six year flight from Earth to a potentially hazardous asteroid, Ryugu, and return a sample ...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, Bandon Community Radio, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KKRN and more

Added: Jun 28, 2018
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 7

472-Martian Mysteries

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Two exciting new scientific discoveries have ignited our curiosity and are guiding our search for evidence of past and/or present life on Mars.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM, KRWG, KKRN and more

Added: Jun 22, 2018
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 7

471-Botswana Bound

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

A small space rock with a diameter less than the height of an NBA basketball player had just crossed the orbit of our Moon on a collision course wi...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM, KRWG, KKRN and more

Added: Jun 21, 2018
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 7

459-Falling Space Rocks

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

In the early evening of January 17, 2018 six hundred and seventy four observers in 11 States and Canada reported a fireball meteor streaking across...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM, WLPR , KKRN and more

Added: May 10, 2018
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 9

457-30 Years of Fireballs

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Fireballs are meteors which become brighter than the planet Venus and can sometimes be seen in the daytime. If you are lucky to see a fireball send...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WTIP, KKRN and more

Added: May 05, 2018
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 6

Atlas for the End of the World: Urbanization Joins Conservation

From: Teosson Wells

“It's the end of the world where we thought nature was an infinite resource and we could exploit it without consequence,” Professor Richard Weller ...

Added: Aug 03, 2017
Length: 57:07

Episode 9: Mapping Oil Spills by Satellite

From: David Levin
Series: The Loop: Stories from the Gulf

Caption: Chuanmin Hu, an optical oceanographer at USF, points to a map of the Ixtoc-1 spill made from archival satellite data.

The 1979 Ixtoc-1 oil spill spewed millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, but has since been largely forgotten. More than 35 years late...

Added: Feb 15, 2017
Length: 09:50

Drilling into a side of an ocean trench....for science

From: Amy West

By sending pipe from a moving ship roughly three miles down to collect sediment and rocks a third of a mile beneath the sea floor in an ocean trenc...

Added: Aug 28, 2016
Length: 04:22

In Kentucky, a Prairie Made by Coal

From: Reid Frazier

Caption: Up to a million acres of strip-mined land have been de-forested., Credit: Photo: Reid Frazier

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

Mountain Bikers Response To Galbraith Logging

From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media

Kendrick Bradley is a mountain biker. He’s from Bellingham. One of his favorite spots to ride is Galbraith Mountain – it’s practically his backyard...

Added: Jan 15, 2015
Length: 08:44

Sailing The High Seas 2.0

From: Jason Albert

Caption: Wing sails on San Francisco Bay, Credit: Jason Albert

90% of the world's goods are carried by cargo ships. And the oceans they sail on are streaming with wind: High tech wing sails used on America's Cu...

Bought by Hark!, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WTIP, and PRX Remix

Added: Jul 15, 2013
Length: 06:41
Purchases: 5

Wells to Wheels: Can shale gas power cars?

From: Reid Frazier
Series: Breaking the Land: Marcellus Shale and the Gas Age

Caption: Making way for the Marcellus, Credit: Reid R. Frazier/Allegheny Front

We use natural gas to heat our homes and generate our power. Can we use it to fuel our cars? Big Gas thinks shale gas is the key to cleaning up our...

Added: Dec 22, 2011
Length: 06:57

Microbes and Worms Turn Oil into Compost

From: Catherine Girardeau

Caption: Thomas Azwell with tea tank, Port Sonoma, CA, Credit: Catherine Girardeau

A UC Berkeley researcher is attacking toxic hydrocarbons left over from oil spills with microbes, earthworms, and a few acres of land. Catherine Gi...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio