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Climate Connections May 13 - June 7, 2024
From: ChavoBart Digital Media
Series: Climate Connections
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This month on Climate Connections how Miami-Dade County is protecting public housing residents from dangerous heat waves, man converts his home to ...

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, Tri States Public Radio, WFHB, KCNP, WLRN and more


  • Added: May 07, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 11
04152024: Protecting Earth , 4/15/2024
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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It's Earth Day on The Children's Hour, and we meet Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernandez (NM) who explains how National Parks and National Wildernes...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
Climate Connections April 15 - May 10, 2024
From: ChavoBart Digital Media
Series: Climate Connections
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This month on Climate Connections schools in coal country are going solar, some anglers say Rhode Island’s Block Island wind farm has improved fish...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KWSO, WTJU, Mountain Streams Radio WKYW-LP and more


  • Added: Apr 09, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 20
Dating Trees
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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Trees have birthdays too, and scientists find out when they are by studying the rings of trees. This week on The Children's Hour, we learn how to d...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KTNA, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KRSC, Allegheny Mountain Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 13, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 10
City Creek At Folsom Trail
From: KRCL
Series: Ways of Water
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In another episode of Ways of Water, Radioactive's Connor Estes attended a design walk in Salt Lake City to see the proposed plans for the City Cre...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2023
  • Length: 08:31
20230703: Manatees, 7/3/2023
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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This time on The Children’s Hour, we learn about Manatees, the gentle giants of the sea. In a visit with Andrea Hermann from the Clearwater Marine ...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
Manatees
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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This time on The Children’s Hour, we learn about Manatees, the gentle giants of the sea. In a visit with Andrea Hermann from the Clearwater Marine ...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), Allegheny Mountain Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KSTK, KRSC and more


  • Added: Jul 03, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 9
Forests
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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We get into the woods with ecologist Dr. Lisa Markovchick to learn about forests, trees, and the critical role they play in sustaining life on Plan...

Bought by KCHU, KTNA, KSTK, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Jun 19, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 13
20230619: Forests, 6/19/2023
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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We get into the woods with ecologist Dr. Lisa Markovchick to learn about forests, trees, and the critical role they play in sustaining life on Plan...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
Community Science
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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This time on The Children's Hour we learn how everyone can contribute to active scientific research by participating in Community Science with grou...

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


  • Added: May 22, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 10
20230522: Community Science, 5/22/2023
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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This time on The Children's Hour we learn how everyone can contribute to active scientific research by participating in Community Science with grou...

  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
Bearing Witness
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Happy New Year

  • Added: May 03, 2023
  • Length: 04:52
Wild Contentment
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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I could be over thinking the feeling I got when I saw that lone coati from the now named coati mundi bluff, but it was wonderful. The other flora a...

  • Added: May 03, 2023
  • Length: 04:17
20230224: Housing Density as a Climate Lever with Scott Wiener, 2/24/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The lack of affordable housing in the U.S. has contributed to a homelessness crisis and has forced people to move farther away from urban centers. ...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
2022-12-30 Revisiting The Enablers: The Firms Behind Fossil Fuel Falsehoods
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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For years, fossil fuel companies have claimed to support climate science and policy. Many have recently pledged to hit net zero emissions by midcen...

Bought by KZYX, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Dec 29, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 10
20221230: Revisiting The Enablers: The Firms Behind Fossil Fuel Falsehoods, 12/30/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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For years, fossil fuel companies have claimed to support climate science and policy. Many have recently pledged to hit net zero emissions by midcen...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
California Buckthorn
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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I grew and sold California buckthorn for several years. Early on I sold it wholesale to other nurseries, but I also sold it at Farmers Markets in C...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 04:18
Goodding Willow by a Pond in the Hills
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Leslie Newton Goodding had a busy career. It was when he worked for the U. S. Department of Agriculture that he collected the type specimen for the...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2022
  • Length: 04:01
Sara's Onion
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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It was the American botanist Soreno Watson, that named the onion collected in Tanner’s Canyon of the Huachuca Mountains to honor Sara Plummer Lemmo...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2022
  • Length: 04:16
Canyon Tree Frog
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Western Amphibians

  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 04:01
Le Quatro Volte Review
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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The endlessly cyclical nature of life is depicted as four different stories in a sleepy Italian village.

  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 03:28
Asclepias Lemmonii
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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It’s fun to have favorite plants to look for on excursions into the hills. Looking back at photos and my notes, we have been checking on this parti...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 04:23
Condalia correllii in the Borderlands
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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What a fun discovery in the desert east of Douglas, Arizona. There is just something about these large spinescent shrubs in the buckthorn family, R...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 04:22
Coral Bells
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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The genus Heuchera is found in the saxifrage family, Saxifracaceae, with 80 other genera that includes the genus Saxifraga and its 400 species. Yikes!

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 04:16
Bigtooth Maple
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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The bigtooth maple is no longer in its own family of Aceraceae, but is in Sapindaceae. Molecular taxonomy keeps us plant geeks on our toes.

  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 04:29