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Water is Life: Tradition and transition in the Navajo Nation
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Terrascope Radio Major Features
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About 30% of residents of the Navajo Nation don't have access to running water, and even for those who do, much of the water is contaminated with u...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and WDBM


  • Added: May 15, 2019
  • Length: 21:55
  • Purchases: 2
Cold Comfort | Earth Day Special
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: A boat floats off the coast of Shishmaref, Credit: Nick Mott
What is the Arctic? Who lives there? How are their lives changing as the climate warms? In this Earth Day Special, we take listeners on a three-par...

Bought by KUT, Wyoming Public Radio, KVNF, KJZZ, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 04, 2019
  • Length: 58:31
  • Purchases: 6
Cold Comfort | Promos | Earth Day Special
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: The sea wall, just like the coast, is gradually wearing away., Credit: Nick Mott
Promos for Threshold's one-hour Earth Day Special

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 22, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 2
Live from the Everglades, Part One
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
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South Florida's subtropical wilderness inspired us to stage a remote radio broadcast from the Everglades on February 24, 2019. We brought live and ...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2019
  • Length: 01:44:36
Cold Comfort | Extra 2 | Blowing in the Wind: Aleksandersens Update
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
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Remember the Sámi family from episode six? The Aleksandersens face threats to their reindeer herding from both climate change and climate change so...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2019
  • Length: 35:40
Commoning Our Cities: Mary Miss, Silvia Federici, Peter Linebaugh
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Reinventing our cities and re-enchanting the world. Who gets a say in designing where they live? We visit artist Mary Miss's organization, The Cit...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Feb 27, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Voice Crying In the Wilderness
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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A harsh visit to the desert of the Bible: a place of banishment and horror, where ostriches and demons dance in the abandoned cabins.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Holy Rangers
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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In the chaos of a dysfunctional government, who will protect the wilderness and public lands, our national parks and monuments, our nature preserve...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 04, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mountains and Mining (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Frank Newsome is an Old Regular Baptist preacher, singer of lined-out hymnody, and former coal miner in Appalachia. This remarkable singer has a ne...

Bought by KXCV, WGZS, WNMU-FM, and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 01, 2019
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 4
Mountains and Mining (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Frank Newsome is an Old Regular Baptist preacher, singer of lined-out hymnody, and former coal miner in Appalachia. This remarkable singer has a n...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KXCV, WRGY, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2019
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 13
Mountains and Mining (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-Frank Newsome is an Old Regular Baptist preacher, singer of lined-out hymnody, and former coal miner in Appalachia. This remarkable singer has a n...

Bought by WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, Harford Community Radio, WFHB, WUGA (part of GPB) and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2019
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 10
Green New Deal, Yellow Vests
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Activists at all levels of the climate justice movement discuss how inter-generational, cross-coalition, and global organizing is taking control of...

Bought by KDNK and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jan 31, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Whatever Happened to the Ozone Hole?
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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An environmental success story.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jan 17, 2019
  • Length: 24:10
  • Purchases: 1
Travel Options for the Collapse
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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What happens when a civilization collapses? You can't go camping in Joshua Tree, that's what.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jan 14, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Being Green
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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India is home to some of the most polluted cities in the world, but also home to some of the first champions of recycling.

  • Added: Jan 07, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
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
Cold Comfort | Episode 13 | Try Harder
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: Jim White is the director of INSTAAR (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research) and a professor of geological sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder., Credit: Jim White
18 months of reporting. All eight Arctic countries. So many fascinating people. On the final episode of season two of Threshold, we pull back a lit...

Bought by KSKQ, Prairie Public, Prairie Public, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., and Wyoming Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 17, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 5
Cold Comfort | Episode 12 | Here Be Dragons
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: Graduate student Ian MacDowell, undergrad Aidan Stansberry, and principal investigator Joel Harper at work on the Greenland ice sheet, Credit: Amy Martin
The Greenland ice sheet is basically a giant ice cube the size of Alaska. What happens when it melts? We spent five days camping out on the ice wit...

Bought by KSKQ, Prairie Public, Prairie Public, Wyoming Public Radio, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Dec 11, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 5
Cold Comfort | Episode 11 | Life Is Too Hard Without Music
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: Iqaluit is the capital city of Nunavut, the largest territory in Canada., Credit: Nick Mott
All across the Arctic, indigenous languages are on the decline. But in many communities, people are finding new ways to reclaim both language and c...

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, Wyoming Public Radio, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Dec 03, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 4
Sea of Stars
From: Tanner Robbins
Caption: Common Fangtooth (Anoplogaster cornuta), Credit: Paul Caiger
Tanner Robbins reports on the Ocean Twilight Zone and the scientists studying it.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 28, 2018
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 2
Cold Comfort | Episode 10 | Nickel For Your Thoughts
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: Parades are held across Russia on May 9 to commemorate the end of the war and to honor the 26 million Soviet citizens who lost their lives., Credit: Amy Martin
Half of the Arctic is in Russia, and half of Russia is in the Arctic. Oil, minerals, pollution -- it's a web of complicated environmental stories t...

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, Wyoming Public Radio, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 4
Cold Comfort | Episode 9 | Who Asked You?
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: Two men carry a Soviet flag, Credit: Amy Martin
Russia has more land in the Arctic than any other nation. It's also a regime that does not tolerate dissent. What does this mean for residents of M...

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, Wyoming Public Radio, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Nov 22, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 4
The Response: Uneven Burns
From: Making Contact
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In the aftermath of Northern California’s Tubbs Fire in 2017, undocumented families found support outside of traditional disaster service agencies ...

Bought by KQED


  • Added: Nov 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Cold Comfort | Episode 8 | Oil and Water
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: Bowhead whale skull, Credit: Amy Martin
What happens when the thing you can't live without in the short term threatens your very existence in the long run? Meet two whalers in Utqiagvik, ...

Bought by KSKQ, Prairie Public, Prairie Public, Wyoming Public Radio, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Nov 15, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 5
Welcome To Dirt-Pile City
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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The aftermath of the Great Hi-Desert Deluge of Autumn 2018. In fact, officials at Joshua Tree Town Hall are considering renaming the village "Dirt-...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 09, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1

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