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20210705: Drying Out, 7/5/2021
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
Caption: Rio Grande is now dry in the summer, Credit: Laura Paskus
The kids learn about drought and extreme weather with an environmental journalist and a meteorologist. Mixed with excellent music, learn with us!

  • Added: Jul 02, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
Balloons
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Caption: ulia Wolfe, 15 year old hot air balloon pilot in training , Credit: Dr. Jonathan Wolfe
Get blown away with us as we learn all about balloons! From hot air balloons to latex balloon clothing, we cover it all - including weather balloon...

Bought by KQRU FM LP, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP, KSTK, WCNY and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 10
09282020: Balloons, 9/28/2020
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
Caption: Julia Wolfe, 15 year old hot air balloon pilot in training, Credit: Dr. Jonathan Wolfe
Get blown away with us as we learn all about balloons! From hot air balloons to latex balloon clothing, we cover it all - including weather balloon...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
Global Music
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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Take a trip around the globe with us through the universal language of music for families and kids of all ages.

Bought by KGLP, Allegheny Mountain Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 10
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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There was an all-too brief renaissance in American film in the 1970s, when writers and directors were free to experiment with radically different s...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2020
  • Length: 03:18
The climatologically altered future of Lake Tahoe
From: Brian Bahouth
Series: The Wild Hare
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During Tuesday’s online meeting of the interim Legislative Committee for the Review and Oversight of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and the Mar...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2020
  • Length: 16:49
Sabotage
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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One of the recurring motifs in Alfred Hitchcock’s films concerns a woman who suspects a loved one of being a monster. In his 1936 film Sabotage, th...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 03:28
Wild Wolves
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
Caption: Mexican Grey Wolf, Credit: USFWS
The kids learn about re-wilding wolves in North America from a documentary filmmaker, a biologist leading wolf recovery, and a zookeeper who breeds...

Bought by KQRU FM LP, WLRH, Allegheny Mountain Radio, WXPR, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: May 25, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 9
YBYG62: You Bet Your Garden # 62 High School Science Fair Winner Shares Her Project on Measuring Midges DNA , 12/5/2019
From: You Bet Your Garden
Series: You Bet Your Garden
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On this week's YBYG, Mike McGrath interviews Sonja Michaluk, New Jersey high school science fair winner, who discusses her project on measuring th...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2019
  • Length: 54:58
Judy
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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Renée Zellweger gives a stunning performance as Judy Garland in the last year of her life, performing in London while suffering from the drug addic...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Oct 30, 2019
  • Length: 04:34
  • Purchases: 1
YBYG57: You Bet Your Garden # 57 What can you do with those leftover straw bales?, 10/31/2019
From: You Bet Your Garden
Series: You Bet Your Garden
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On this episode of YBYG, host Mike McGrath tells us why you should leave the straw for the scarecrows this season, instead of using it to reduce y...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2019
  • Length: 54:59
462-Our View
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Modern technology provides us with stunning views of objects in the Universe in wavelengths invisible to our eyes, however, nothing is as moving an...

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


  • Added: May 18, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
461-Brian's First
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Brian Africano's first Potentially Hazardous Asteroid discovery can come near to the Earth and Mars.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM, KSFR and more


  • Added: May 17, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Fog as Drinking Water
From: Coastridge Productions
Series: Planet Watch
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Cal State University Monterey Bay college professor Daniel Fernandez talks about his fog catchers and how they can convert fog into water.

Bought by KFOI Radio


  • Added: Sep 17, 2017
  • Length: 52:11
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Eve Van Cauter Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that out of all mammals, humans are the only ones that deprive themselves of sleep? And that sleep disturbance/deprivation is a risk f...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 20, 2017
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Judith McGeary Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Do you know about the “soil-food-web?” Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Judith McG...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Peter Infante, Part 2 Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Do you know the challenges government regulators face when attempting to warn the public about health risks related to chemicals and ingredients in...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 06, 2017
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Good News for Tigers?
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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"Did you see a tiger?" The first question asked of anyone who comes back from Jim Corbett National Park was asked of Sandip Roy recently. Here is ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
Sounding the Alarm: Noise Pollution
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Noise pollution is a growing problem. Effecting everything from the lives of people living under airplane flight paths, to marine life. On this edi...

Bought by WFHB and WXDU


  • Added: Mar 30, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Pete Seeger-All Mixed Up
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Pete Seeger
Tribute to legendary singer-songwriter, political activist and environmentalist Pete Seeger featuring interviews, music and stories from a life far...

Bought by Prairie Public, KGLT, RadioFreePalmer, and Wyoming Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 28, 2014
  • Length: 59:18
  • Purchases: 4
Food Sleuth Radio, Ken Cook Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Apples, celery and bell peppers top the Environmental Working Group’s 2012 Dirty Dozen list for pesticide residues. Join Food Sleuth Radio host, Me...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Sep 03, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Dead Zones and Fly-Fishing
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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You can’t see them on the surface. But at the bottom of some of the world’s largest bodies of water are areas called dead zones where fish and othe...

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KMXT, and KWMR


  • Added: May 10, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 4
When Government Changes the Rules: Taiwan's Feed-in-Tariff
From: Carnegie Council
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Taiwan requires electric utilities to purchase renewable energy, subsidized by the government. Recently when solar rates went down, the government ...

  • Added: May 16, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
Disaster, Decline, or Rebirth: A Japanese Fish Story
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Global Ethics Corner
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Japan's recent tsunami and nuclear disaster have devastated its fishing industry. Fish are at the heart of Japanese culture, yet worldwide stocks o...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2011
  • Length: 02:00