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Summers of Discontent
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Summer Fruits in Kolkata., Credit: Sandip Roy
As the Indian heat descends on Kolkata, Sandip considers how our perceptions about the rituals of summer have changed.

  • Added: Apr 30, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
Look For The Helpers - Part 1
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
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In the first part of this special Clean Transportation mini-series Jess talks with Adam Browning of Forum Mobility about the future of heavy-duty e...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
How Can We Find Real Solutions to the Climate Crisis?
From: Current Affairs
Series: The Current Affairs Radio Hour
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Today we look at practical ways to approach the climate crisis and how we can tell real solutions from pseudo-solutions.

  • Added: Oct 16, 2022
  • Length: 54:53
Episode Six: When a horse goes 'home'
From: Alan Wartes
Series: Wildish:Wild horses in a not-so-wild west
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In Montana, two ranchers adopted ‘Delilah.’ They’re among the growing number of people actually getting paid to adopt wild horses and burros.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2020
  • Length: 15:40
Episode Five: The unsexy burro
From: Alan Wartes
Series: Wildish:Wild horses in a not-so-wild west
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In Arizona, two incarcerated men rehabilitate wild donkeys for adoption.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2020
  • Length: 18:19
Episode Three: Australia's wild horse conundrum parallels the West's
From: Alan Wartes
Series: Wildish:Wild horses in a not-so-wild west
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The 'Brumbies' are protected but their abundance has degraded the land Down Under and sparked heated debate.

Bought by KGLP


  • Added: Nov 11, 2020
  • Length: 21:24
  • Purchases: 1
Episode Four: Why helicopter gathers are so controversial
From: Alan Wartes
Series: Wildish:Wild horses in a not-so-wild west
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The risks inherent in the Bureau of Land Management’s ‘most humane’ method of wild horse removal.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2020
  • Length: 23:49
Episode Two: Why wild horses pull on our heartstrings
From: Alan Wartes
Series: Wildish:Wild horses in a not-so-wild west
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Horses and humans evolved together. Much as we do with dogs, we have a special relationship with the species. In this episode, host Anna Coburn spe...

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Sep 17, 2020
  • Length: 21:25
  • Purchases: 1
Episode One: Is federal mustang management reaching a breaking point?
From: Alan Wartes
Series: Wildish:Wild horses in a not-so-wild west
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If wildlife managers, landowners, wild horse advocates and the BLM cannot work together to come to a solution, the Wild Horse and Burro Program wil...

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Sep 17, 2020
  • Length: 18:53
  • Purchases: 1
Can we get rid of driftnets?
From: Possibly
Caption: Sea turtle caught in a ghost net
Driftnets are fishing nets that have largely fallen out of fashion because they can accidentally catch other marine life. But it's still legal to u...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 26, 2020
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 1
Dead of Winter
From: Heritage Radio Network
Series: Meat + Three
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The Polar Vortex has subsided, but despite warmer temperatures, it’s still the dead of winter. This week, we take you through dormant grapevines i...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2019
  • Length: 20:57
Dispatch #306 - Gun Island
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Amitav Ghosh’s newest novel Gun Island is a story about both two of his great themes - migration and climate.

  • Added: Sep 10, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
The World in a Wine Glass
From: Heritage Radio Network
Series: Meat + Three
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Wind your way through the world’s markets, both physical and financial, to find out how they’re changing. This week on Meat + Three, we explore glo...

Bought by KGUA


  • Added: Aug 22, 2019
  • Length: 19:35
  • Purchases: 1
A Small Green Idea to Power Nepal
From: Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Series: Ways & Means "Shorts"
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A research teams treks the Himalayas to investigate why tapping rivers for power works in some places, but not others.

  • Added: Apr 03, 2019
  • Length: 03:36
Whatever Happened to Acid Rain?
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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It's complicated.

  • Added: Jan 17, 2019
  • Length: 32:16
Hot lava salt
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Sandip Roy in Hawai'i
Hot lava™. This is a smoky, spicy, garlic salt. But now when I look at my Hot Lava garlic salt I feel a pang.

  • Added: May 22, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Where does the buck stop?
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Bollywood superstar Salman Khan was convicted of killing a protected deer, but with the rich and the powerful it’s hard to tell where the buck real...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Tiger spotting
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A jungle cat (aka not a Tiger), Credit: Sandip Roy
What's in a tiger sighting? For some it's more important than anything else.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
JANE -- Brett Morgen Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Brett Morgen talks sound, color, and being filled with endless amounts of awe.

  • Added: Dec 17, 2017
  • Length: 18:00
Part 3: Green movement pivots toward minorities
From: Great Lakes Today
Series: New Faces, New Issues
Caption: A few members of Outdoor Afro Cleveland, including Smith-Woodford (holding sign), Credit: Elizabeth Miller/ideastream
Part 3 of series -- The Great Lakes region is home to millions of people of different races and ethnicities. But diverse backgrounds – and issues ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WBFO, WXXI Rochester, WCPN, WOSU and more


  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 7
Part 2: Flint water crisis a turning point for Green movement
From: Great Lakes Today
Series: New Faces, New Issues
Caption: WT Stevens replaces a pipe under a Flint street, Credit: Elizabeth Miller/ideastream
Part 2 of series -- Historically, the environmental movement hasn’t always been welcoming to people of color – and issues that are important to the...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, WCPN, WBFO, WDET Detroit Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 8
Part 1: Environmental groups slow to seek out minorities
From: Great Lakes Today
Series: New Faces, New Issues
Caption: Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir at Yosemite in 1903, Credit: Library of Congress
Part 1 of series -- When you think of the environmental movement, what comes to mind. Preserving the wilderness in national parks? Or guaranteeing ...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WCPN, WXXI Rochester, WBFO, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 8
Sound Ecology: Aleutian Geese
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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This segment of Sound Ecology focuses on the recovery of the once-endangered Aleutian Geese that winter in northern California.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 3
Pedal Power (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-In his book City Cycling, Ralph Buehler emphasizes that bicycling shouldn’t be limited to those who are trained, fit, and daring enough to battle ...

Bought by WCNY, 'The Sea', WRST-FM Oshkosh, KRDP, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 30, 2016
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 8
Sea Change
From: Duke University
Series: Glad You Asked
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Rising sea levels are just one way climate change is reshaping the world's oceans, says Duke University oceanographer Susan Lozier.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2016
  • Length: 01:40