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Editors at National Geographic Magazine detail the requirements for young explorers to qualify for expedition grants

  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 05:59
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Created for a Sound Landscape assignment.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2011
  • Length: 03:54
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On this episode of Culture Clique, KQAL's Teri Tenseth interviews Therapeutic and Recreational Tourism Assistant Professor at Winona State Universi...

Bought by KSRQ and WDSE


  • Added: Dec 09, 2011
  • Length: 58:24
  • Purchases: 2
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This edition of Art Beat is the first of a two part interview and lecture from Minnesota author Ashley Shelby. In this segment, Ashley will talk ab...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 31:18
  • Purchases: 1
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill talks about the W2O, the Subscription Service, and asks how we might connect and unite the c...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 04:51
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On this edition of "Don't Cha Know" Jim Gurley stops by KQAL to talk about Frac-Sand Mining and what it has to do with Winona County, and Winona Mi...

Bought by KPVL


  • Added: Nov 23, 2011
  • Length: 31:52
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Rising sea levels and extreme weather conditions threaten the nation's coastal towns, Credit: Jan Sturmann
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
Caption: Steve Mello is a farmer on Tyler Island in the San Francisco Bay Delta, Credit: Jan Sturmann
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
Caption: Chuey Cazares and his family live in the tiny coastal town of Alviso at the southern tip of the San Francisco Bay, Credit: Jan Sturmann
Adapting to climate change will be a messy and painful business. And in the short term there will be winners and losers. Chuey Cazarez’s family is ...

Bought by WFHB, CI Dolphin Radio, WHRV, KAAD-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
Caption: Smokestacks rise above Louisville Gas & Electric's Cane Run Power Station in southwest Louisville, Credit: Erica Peterson
Residents in Louisville say coal ash from a nearby landfill is contaminating their homes.

  • Added: Aug 04, 2011
  • Length: 03:34
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On the 22nd of July 2011, witnessed by Africa’s top elephant conservationists, the Kenya Government burned 5 tons of ivory worth 15 million dollars...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2011
  • Length: 03:08
Caption: Unemployed oyster shucker Tam Nguyen , Credit: Barry Yeoman
For many of Louisiana's oyster shuckers, shrimp peelers, and deckhands, survival after the BP oil spill meant accepting one-time payments of $5,000...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jul 17, 2011
  • Length: 06:14
  • Purchases: 1
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How a small community of gold miners in the Colombian jungle is fighting to turn a toxic industry into a green and global market.

  • Added: Jul 07, 2011
  • Length: 34:24
Caption: Ve Nguyen is one of three fishers who have filed test claims for subsistence loss., Credit: Barry Yeoman
Kenneth Feinberg, the Boston attorney in charge of reviewing claims for the BP oil spill, says he expects to start paying interim and final claims ...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jul 06, 2011
  • Length: 05:45
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Theresa Dardar says crabbers have replaces the forest in her back yard., Credit: Barry Yeoman
The 700-member Pointe-au-Chien indian tribe south of Houma, Louisiana was one of the first communities to take a direct hit from the BP oil spill. ...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jul 06, 2011
  • Length: 07:59
  • Purchases: 1
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The BP oil spill triggered an outpouring of volunteer energy. Concerned Americans lay boom, picked up tar balls, and performed mundane tasks like a...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jul 06, 2011
  • Length: 05:42
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: For Byron Encalade, oysters and culture are inseparable., Credit: Barry Yeoman
In Pointe-a-la-Hache, Louisiana, the oyster harvest feeds widows, sustains relationships, and keeps the rural economy humming. But the BP oil spill...

Bought by KUT and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 01, 2011
  • Length: 07:23
  • Purchases: 2
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A wonderful tale of good farming, good radio and a voice from the past. Radio producer Tim Lehane found an old tape in his attic. It was the favour...

Bought by KMUN, KRZA, KPIK-LP, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 01, 2011
  • Length: 10:28
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Darla Rooks looks out over the oiled marshland of Bay Jimmy. , Credit: Barry Yeoman
It has been over a year since the Deepwater Horizon blowout, but it’s still too early to measure the complete cost of the ensuing disaster. Despite...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2011
  • Length: 11:47
Caption: Bryce Michel worries that once customers find an alternative to the Gulf Coast, they won't return., Credit: Barry Yeoman
(NOTE: This piece is non-narrated.) The Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF) has predicted that most businesses will recover from the BP oil spill b...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2011
  • Length: 06:44
Caption: Kirby Verret recalls when Dulac had more land and more people., Credit: Barry Yeoman
The Houma Indians and Cajuns who live in in this Terrebonne Parish fishing village have watched its population drop by more than 50 percent since 1...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jun 30, 2011
  • Length: 11:05
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Volt, Credit: Sheri Quinn
Now more than just a battery that powers your car, 22 year-old engineer Hunter Wu is implementing a plan to install electric pads into the nation's...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2011
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: This is a view of a brownfield across the street from Exelon City Solar. The plant cleaned up about half the brownfield space in Chicago's 34th Ward.
Long-abandoned factories have scarred the Midwest landscape for generations. Tens of thousands sit vacant across the region, the tally growing by ...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2011
  • Length: 06:27
Caption: NHI Youth Presenters, Credit: Generation Justice
On May 22nd, 2011 Generation Justice aired presentations from the Native Health Initiative (NHI) youth presentation titled “Youth Leading the Way” ...

  • Added: May 23, 2011
  • Length: 34:31
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Residents of the island of Vinalhaven, Maine discuss the noise created by the arrival of three new wind turbines.

Bought by KPVL, KXOT Public Radio, WDSE, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 17, 2011
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 4