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Straight To Hell
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Night has fallen on the desert, the desert at its most brutal. The punishing desert, the earthly purgatory, the sun-blasted wilderness so many hero...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
A Mojave Solstice
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Winter holidays in the High Desert, and problems with the 29 Palms Christmas Pageant. Guest: Brendan Maze.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Dec 25, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
These Shoes Were Made For Mocking
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Outside/In
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Producer Taylor Quimby has been defending Vibram FiveFingers™ shoes to naysayers for years. When people see him wearing them while he’s on the trai...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2016
  • Length: 24:42
Cicada Confidential
From: Louisa Jonas
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From the red eyes of a periodical cicada looking out: a bug's first person rendition from emergence til death.

Bought by KSJD, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WTIP, Radio Newark, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Jun 19, 2013
  • Length: 07:42
  • Purchases: 8
The Mikie Show #51, Margaret
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Join us as we speak with paleoecologist extraordinaire, Margaret B. Davis. She is one of the world’s foremost scholars of palynology, a branch of p...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2012
  • Length: 27:59
In Beekeeping, Honey's Worth A Few Stings
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Caption: Andrew Coté holds up a panel of bees., Credit: Chion Wolf
An intrepid producer braves several stings to tell a story about beekeeping and a beekeeper who has traveled the world to teach his craft.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WFIU, New Hampshire Public Radio, KZYX, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 29, 2012
  • Length: 03:25
  • Purchases: 5
The Mikie Show #25, Bill
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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We have a chat with arborist Bill Eck. He grew up in the forest, like a little elf or something! Seriously, he’s a great guy and he really knows hi...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Nov 10, 2010
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 1
The Mikie Show #18, Linda
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Science is good and fun. We decide to restate that through our conversation with Linda Leigh, botanist, naturalist, farmer. Or is it rancher? We're...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 1
The Mikie Show #15, Mike
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Episode fifteen takes us to the wilderness with former hotshot Mike Kennard. What's a hotshot? They're the folks on the front lines fighting forest...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Apr 11, 2010
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 1
Alaska's Trumpets of Doom
From: John Ryan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The science behind the songs of Alaska's humpback whales

  • Added: Feb 13, 2008
  • Length: 04:25
Big Perks for Tiny Houses?
From: The Environment Report
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Reporter Rebecca Williams takes a peek into some itsy bitsy homes

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WBEZ, and WILL


  • Added: Mar 19, 2007
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 4
Why Lawns?
From: Ed Herrmann
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Why do Americans spend billions of dollars and countless hours to maintain a "perfect" lawn?

Bought by PRX Remix and KZUM


  • Added: May 01, 2006
  • Length: 03:49
  • Purchases: 2
Listening for Frogs
From: Ed Herrmann
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An ironic look at the efforts to survey frogs as a way to assess the health of rivers.

Bought by PRX Remix, KZYX, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 26, 2006
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 3