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Did you know that a mountain lion, known as P-22, lives in the middle of Los Angeles, that the Facebook campus in Silicon Valley provided a home fo...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 01:00:01
- Purchases: 1
Did you know that organic farming systems can reduce nitrate pollution, improve soil and food quality, all while providing bountiful yields? Join F...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Mar 17, 2016
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
High schooler William Whittenbury attacks the dire situation of the endangered porpoise - the vaquitas. William hopes to change the fate of the vaq...
- Added: Mar 16, 2015
- Length: 04:03
They rock and roll them. We're talking about those boulders we all see in the woods. Geologists call them "erratics."
- Added: Dec 17, 2014
- Length: 03:53
For the past fifty years physicists around the world have been trying to create a fusion power reactor, harnessing the processes deep inside of sta...
- Added: Jun 04, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Conservationists in Sarapiqui, Costa Rica describe their relationship with birds. Excerpted from "Pura Vida: Costa Rica's Culture of Conservation."
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 12, 2014
- Length: 01:10
- Purchases: 1
Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...
- Added: Aug 27, 2013
- Length: 07:38
Mining provides the resources for many products we use every day, but it's more than just a big corporate enterprise. Listen in for a look at some ...
- Added: May 24, 2013
- Length: 21:34
Suriname heeft voor verdere economische ontwikkeling energie nodig. Dat brengt een dilemma teweeg en het land in een spagaat.
Dr. van Dijck praat o...
- Added: May 19, 2013
- Length: 19:01
An incomparable and mind-boggling migration.
- Added: May 10, 2013
- Length: 05:31
The strident opponents of a rapid, unregulated re-introduction of alewives to the St. Croix believe that at one important juncture in the river, ...
- Added: Feb 21, 2013
- Length: 04:40
Civilization was built by the sea. The 20th century waterfront was an accumulation of functions that were best placed on or near the coast. As popu...
- Added: Feb 04, 2013
- Length: 05:45
Paul Ehrlich, author of the iconic book The Population Bomb, reflects on the history of environmentalism and his gloomy outlook for the future. [Ep...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 46:21
Richard Alley, a climate researcher and the host of PBS’s Earth: The Operators’ Manual, discusses rapid changes in Earth’s climate through history ...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 27:55
Michael Shellenberger addresses climate change through the eyes of his Breakthrough Institute and offers up some ideas that some see as controversi...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 19:48
In this interview, we learn from James Holland Jones how diseases emerge and spread as humans encroach into the wilderness, and how the patterns wi...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 37:41
Peter Kareiva, the chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy, discusses his definition of nature and challenges the assertion that nature is fragi...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 29:43
Spirited biologist Rodolfo Dirzo discusses the complex interplay of climate change with other systems, and his personal relation to the Anthropocen...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 46:56
Conservation biologist Terry Root discusses the road to triage and her somewhat controversial approach to saving species in the face of climate cha...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 37:16
Luis Zambrano discusses preserving Aztec culture through a rare salamander in the Mexico City wetlands, and compares emerging conservation battles ...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 22:05
In this feature, WTIP North Shore Community Radio reporter/producer Carah Thomas accompanies Dr. Moore on an electrofishing survey of Susie Island,...
Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and KSRQ
- Added: Aug 24, 2012
- Length: 09:35
- Purchases: 2
The only thing more powerful than human will is Mother Nature. At San Francisco’s Ocean Beach, the two forces have done battle for years over wave ...
Bought by Listenwise
- Added: Apr 22, 2012
- Length: 07:14
- Purchases: 1
In its 2001 report on global climate, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the United Nations prominently featured the “Hockey Stick,” ...
- Added: Apr 17, 2012
- Length: 28:59
The San Francisco Bay is a place of beauty and biological diversity. But sea level rise and extreme weather will change human life along its coastl...
Bought by WHRV, KAAD-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WHRV, WRIR and more
- Added: Sep 09, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 20
Rising waters threaten the lands of a farmer and of a developer, yet they and their families dismiss all warnings of danger. Why are so many of us ...
Bought by WHRV, KAAD-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WHRV, WRIR and more
- Added: Sep 09, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 18
