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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
Cold Comfort | Episode 7 | Hello Central
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: Richard Beneville, mayor of Nome, Alaska, Credit: Nick Mott
If there's one thing everybody's heard about the Arctic, it's that sea ice is melting, and that's bad news. But what's less well-known is that some...

Bought by KSKQ, Prairie Public, Prairie Public, and Wyoming Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 4
Cold Comfort | Extra 1 | Scenes From Svalbard
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
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Take a trip through the Norwegian archipelago, meet workers in the tourism industry, and get a glimpse of some charismatic Arctic megafauna. Plus, ...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Nov 01, 2018
  • Length: 18:33
  • Purchases: 1
Cold Comfort | Episode 6 | The Things I Can See On the Mountains
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: Ulf Isak Aleksandersen is 10 years old, and speaks three languages: Norwegian, Sámi and English. , Credit: Amy Martin
After thousands of years of tradition, a shifting climate is forcing changes in the way Sámi families herd reindeer. But some climate solutions are...

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


  • Added: Oct 29, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 4
Infrastructures of Power (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Across the nation, natural gas production has been ramping up. In many communities, this has meant new pipelines, new promises, and new protests. ...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRGY, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Oct 26, 2018
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 11
Infrastructures of Power (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-Across the nation, natural gas production has been ramping up. In many communities, this has meant new pipelines, new promises, and new protests. ...

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


  • Added: Oct 25, 2018
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 10
Cold Comfort | Episode 5 | Just Decide
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: Amanda Kernell, film director and screenwriter, Credit: Carla Orrego Veliz
Everyone's heard of Vikings -- their daring North Atlantic voyages, their mysterious runes. But there's another ancient culture in Arctic Scandinav...

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, and Wyoming Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 22, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 3
Fossil Refusal: Local Models not Global Markets
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Despite the difficult picture painted by the news, there is hope for our planet. We cover several fights against refineries and market based soluti...

Bought by WVAS and WRIR


  • Added: Oct 18, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Cold Comfort | Episode 4 | Becoming Arctic, Becoming Human
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: A trombonist plays on installation day, Credit: Studio Granada Architects
An eight-ton concrete ball and a 32,000-year-old needle collection. What's all this got to do with the Arctic? Find out on this episode of Threshold.

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


  • Added: Oct 15, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 6
FREE SOLO -- Alex Honnold Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Alex Honnold, San Francisco, CA 10/11/18, Credit: Andrea Chase
Alex Honnold talks sneezing, pedicures, and knowing the right moment.

  • Added: Oct 15, 2018
  • Length: 19:34
Cold Comfort | Episode 3 | Impermafrost
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: A group of researchers collect data on methane releases from Arctic lakes and wetlands., Credit: Amy Martin
All across the Arctic, frozen soil is thawing out. A lot of stuff is buried there -- plants and animals that lived more than 10,000 years ago. What...

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


  • Added: Oct 09, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 6
Cold Comfort | Promos
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: Orbis et Globus from the air, Credit: Studio Granada Architects
Promos for Season Two of Threshold

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


  • Added: Oct 05, 2018
  • Length: :58
  • Purchases: 4
Cold Comfort | Episode 2 | Invisible Hands
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: Winter storms are eating away at the island, but moving the whole community is expensive., Credit: Amy Martin
When a major storm hit Shishmaref, Alaska in 2005, it became a poster child for climate change in the Arctic. Dramatic pictures of houses falling i...

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


  • Added: Oct 01, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 5
Cold Comfort | Episode 1 | The Water is Wide
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: Brent and Elmer play along the shoreline at dusk, Credit: Nick Mott
In Shishmaref, Alaska, no one’s asking if climate change is real. What they want to know is how bad it has to get before the world decides to act.

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, Wyoming Public Radio, KPIP-LP, KSFR and more


  • Added: Sep 24, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 6
HumaNature 30 Minute Special 28
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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“Sanctuary” A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: In 2012, 30 wolves and wolf-dogs were living at W.O.L.F. Sanctuary in northern Colo...

Bought by KMUN, KSTK, and KRZA


  • Added: Sep 20, 2018
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 3
Moonshine and Prohibition (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-South Carolina banned the sale of alcohol in 1915. But the state itself had established its own dispensary system more than a decade earlier. -Moo...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan, Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 20, 2018
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 9
Something Fishy, part 1
From: Matt Frassica
Series: The Briny
Caption: Tim Rider and crew aboard the Finlander I, Credit: Tim Rider
Why regulations designed to protect the ocean are making it harder to fish sustainably.

  • Added: Sep 18, 2018
  • Length: 12:46
Cold Comfort | Preview
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: Grímsey Island from the air, Credit: Studio Granada Architects
What is the Arctic, how is it changing, and why does this matter to all of us?

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Sep 17, 2018
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 1
Not a scientist? You can still help collect valuable data
From: WXXI Rochester
Caption: Volunteer Peter Lent wades through Oatka Creek in Scottsville, New York, looking for bugs to send back to Albany., Credit: Caitlin Whyte/WXXI News
Helping the environment isn’t just about recycling and abandoning plastic straws. WXXI’s Caitlin Whyte explored the concept of citizen science, and...

Bought by WBFO


  • Added: Aug 21, 2018
  • Length: 03:48
  • Purchases: 1
Love Canal, 40 years later
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Children protest at Love Canal, Credit: Center for Health, Environment & Justice
This week marked the 40th anniversary of the federal emergency declaration at Love Canal, the New York neighborhood endanger by industrial pollutio...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and North Country Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 05:12
  • Purchases: 3
LOVE AND BANANAS -- Lek Chailert, Ashley Bell, and John Michael McCarthy Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Ashley Belle, John Michael McCarthy. and Lek Chailer, San Francisco, CA 5/25/18, Credit: Andrea Chase
Lek Chailert, Ashley Bell, and John Michael McCarthy talk choices, chirping, and how an elephant can be like a Prius.

  • Added: Aug 01, 2018
  • Length: 28:48
Sharks - cute as puppies
From: Emmi Skytén
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Even decades after the movie Jaws came out, many people continue to see sharks as monsters. This image does not help the conservation efforts of ma...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 12, 2018
  • Length: 07:07
  • Purchases: 1
Smackdown: City Hall vs Big Oil
From: Claire Schoen
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Richmond California is a working class town that grew up in the shadow of a Chevron refinery. The company ran both the economy – and the local gove...

Bought by KUOW, KUNM, WFAE, WAMU, WUTC and more


  • Added: May 30, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 13

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