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Unnatural: How Humans Start Most of Colorado’s Big Fires, and Get Away With It
From: Colorado Public Radio
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The biggest wildfires in Colorado, which have cost lives and millions of dollars, have unexplained origins. As the number and size of wildfires ris...

Bought by KSUT


  • Added: Nov 15, 2021
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
Uprooted
From: Broken Ground
Series: Season 3: Sea Level Rise
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Find out what we learned about sea level rise in the South. Who will be hit the hardest? What can we do? How can we navigate a path forward?

  • Added: Oct 07, 2020
  • Length: 13:40
Breaking Point
From: Broken Ground
Series: Season 3: Sea Level Rise
Caption: Charleston, SC
With waters rising in Charleston, South Carolina we explore what, if any, breaking point there is for people living and working in this city. And w...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:56
Gardening Tidewaters
From: Broken Ground
Series: Season 3: Sea Level Rise
Caption: Marquitta White and Marie Webb, Credit: Emily Richardson-Lorente
Norfolk, Virginia's waters are rising fast, and its land is sinking. The city's plans to meet this climate change challenge could be a blueprint fo...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2020
  • Length: 33:44
Corporate Cash and Higher Education, and Infectious Disease Outbreaks
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: University partnerships with corporations. Topic 2: A conversation with a CDC ecologist.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and KOWS


  • Added: Mar 16, 2020
  • Length: 49:49
  • Purchases: 2
The Young Environmental Activist
From: Ruxandra Guidi
Series: Surviving California
Caption: The Allen Co. drilling site in South Los Angeles., Credit: Photo by Claire Heddles
Generation Z has been called a lot of things: The internet generation. The Instagram generation. And as some say: the activist generation. Claire H...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2019
  • Length: 08:29
Living Planet 03/30/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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Living Planet: Nature in transition - On this week’s show: Colombia’s impressive birdlife has survived civil war. Can it now help save the cou...

Bought by 'The Sea', KUAF Public Radio, KRJF-lp, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Mar 29, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 10
Where Have All the FEMA Trailers Gone?
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: FEMA trailer with bicycles. , Credit: Courtesy of Akasha Rabut
Ten years later and thousands of miles away, Hurricane Katrina lives on.

  • Added: Dec 02, 2015
  • Length: 27:58
Divest: Pulling the Plug on Fossil Fuels
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Student divestment campaigners at CU Boulder, Credit: Hannah Leigh Myers
Fossil fuels are a trillion dollar industry but environmentalists say they have a plan to pull the plug on the industry: divestment. The campaign t...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Dec 06, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Santa Barbara County is writing its own rules on fracking
From: KALW
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After a series of earthquakes near Youngstown, Ohio last week, some observers are pointing to an unusual culprit. Yesterday seismologist John Armbr...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2012
  • Length: 08:28
New Academy Teaches Vets Green Job Skills
From: Grace Hood
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Fifteen veterans from all branches of the military graduated from Colorado's new "Green Jobs for Vets" Academy this week.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 04, 2009
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 2
Sustainability
From: 90.1 WFYI Public Radio
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Hosted by Barbara Bogaev, and produced by Richard Paul, Sustainability looks at what is being done to address our energy needs and environmental c...

Bought by WFHB, WNIJ, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUOW, KGNU Community Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 09, 2009
  • Length: 59:08
  • Purchases: 27
Quest_Farm Bill and School Lunches
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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What will it take to get healthy meals in School cafeterias? For starters, a new national farm policy.

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Oct 19, 2007
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 1
What's for Dinner?
From: War News Radio
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News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

Bought by KGOU and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 23, 2007
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
After Oil
From: 90.1 WFYI Public Radio
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When we look at all the things that made America what it is, It's fair to say that for the last hundred years or so, America has been shaped, more ...

Bought by KZYX, WILL, Marfa Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Jun 08, 2007
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 39
Potential Changes to the 1872 Mining Law
From: KRCC-FM
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Industry and environmentalists fight over old statute

  • Added: Nov 02, 2005
  • Length: 09:47