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289-Strange Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A new comet is likely to have the characteristics of a really weird traveler in the night.

Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, Radio Newark, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: Sep 22, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Mystery At The Lake
From: Trace Elements
Series: Trace Elements
Caption: Lake Oneida, Credit: National Environmental Education Foundation/Flickr
In the 1970s, a geochemist and a biologist banded together to solve a mystery at Lake Oneida in upstate New York. What they found is changing the w...

Bought by WDBM


  • Added: Apr 21, 2016
  • Length: 14:03
  • Purchases: 1
Episode Three: The Case of The Vanishing Seals
From: KUCB
Series: SEAL: The Case of The Vanishing Seals (An Alaskan Island Mystery)
Caption: St. Paul, Alaska, Credit: KUCB/John Ryan
A marine mammal mystery told in bite-size chunks.

Bought by KRUA


  • Added: Apr 13, 2016
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Ep.08: Fukushima at 3 Years & Paying the Nuclear Bill
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Episodes
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Living in Fukushima 3 years later. Who pays the nuclear bill in the case of a disaster? Shooting Fukushima with photographer Donald Weber.

  • Added: Mar 13, 2016
  • Length: 14:02
Ep.05: Trekking to the North Pole & The World's Fridge
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Episodes
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Trekking to the North Pole, the World's Fridge

  • Added: Mar 13, 2016
  • Length: 16:50
Ep.04: Renewable Energy in a Nuclear Neighbourhood & Suing Environmentalists
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Episodes
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Why nuclear energy is a main source of energy for Ontario and who is using renewables?. And how lawsuits silence environmentalists.

  • Added: Mar 13, 2016
  • Length: 12:18
The Great Bear Rainforest
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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The Great Bear Rainforest is the largest intact, coastal temperate rainforest in the world, running up the coast of BC to Alaska. Elizabeth Arnold ...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2016
  • Length: 03:13
Earthquake! Part 1
From: Robert Prince
Series: Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
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One man witnessed the 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake and recorded the incredible things he saw onto a cassette tape shortly thereafter to mail to fa...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
Chad Roeder Speaks to City Council about the Future the Downtown Recycle Center
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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Chad Roeder Speaks to City Council about the Future the Downtown Recycle Center

  • Added: Nov 05, 2015
  • Length: 09:33
Episode 2: A Ballroom Dancer, A Shark, And A PR Problem
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Debbie Salamone was an environmental journalist who was passionate about the ocean—and ballroom dancing. One day at the beach, all that changed.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., 'The Sea', KUER, KRZA, and KSFR


  • Added: Oct 29, 2015
  • Length: 14:04
  • Purchases: 5
Sudden desperation on the Pacific Crest Trail
From: Peter Johnson
Series: THE AUTHOR'S CORNER ON PUBLIC RADIO: OCTOBER, 2015
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On the second night of college, young Aspen Matis was raped. She fled to the wild to find solace. Here she reads from her book, Girl In The Woods: ...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
Episode 5: Dropping Like Flies
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Every year for the past few years, tens of thousand of flytraps have gone missing – from the wild, from gardens, from nurseries. And, really, nobod...

Bought by KALH, 90.5 WESA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 21:00
  • Purchases: 3
Everywhere But Here (Revised, Full Version)
From: Joseph Rosenberg
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While bats all over America are dying from a mysterious disease, Maine's bat population seems strangely immune. How much longer will they hold out...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 10:26
  • Purchases: 1
Dramatic Crowned Eagle Capture
From: Paula Kahumbu
Series: AFRICA'S WILDEST STORIES
Caption: Crowned Eagle-Rosey, Credit: Elleni Stephanou
Simon Thomsett describes one of the most dramatic moments of his life when a crowned eagle sunk it's talons through his forearm as he tried to get ...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2012
  • Length: 04:33
Maasai big-foot beast
From: Paula Kahumbu
Series: AFRICA'S WILDEST STORIES
Caption: Soila Sayialel saves elephants , Credit: Soila Sayialel
Nickson Parmisa tells of hairy, smelly, human-like beasts, which used to roam the Savannah, eating people but not their cattle. Is this just a fabl...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2012
  • Length: 02:57
Maasai warrior elephant hunt
From: Paula Kahumbu
Series: AFRICA'S WILDEST STORIES
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I'm sitting in a landrover with 46 year old Soila Sayialel - the car is surrounded by over 50 docile elephants grazing in Amboseli National Park. I...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2012
  • Length: 14:44
Spooky Trip Down The Ghost River
From: Candice Ludlow
Caption: Heading into the Ghost Section of the Wolf River, Credit: Candice Ludlow
Audio postcard with Keith Kirkland, an avid river geek, tells about an eerie night on the Ghost River.

  • Added: May 25, 2012
  • Length: 02:46
Where in the World is Don Gamble?
From: peter stock
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In the late 1990s, crack environmental consultant Don Gamble checked out of his comfortable east coast professional life...and disappeared. Ten yea...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Feb 02, 2011
  • Length: 21:42
  • Purchases: 1
Doomed Island
From: peter stock
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The heart-wrenching true tale of a South Pacific island paradise that commits ecological suicide.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KUT


  • Added: Feb 02, 2011
  • Length: 23:02
  • Purchases: 2
The Early Bird Fishing Guide
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
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Conversation with our early bird fishing guide Jeff Sundin. July 15th, 2010.

  • Added: Jul 15, 2010
  • Length: 08:21
How Do Mushrooms Know When to Grow?
From: Ed Herrmann
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What we call a mushroom is only the fruit of a much larger, subterranean organism. How do mushrooms know when to grow? Of course they need rain, su...

Bought by PRX Remix and PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Jun 22, 2010
  • Length: 04:45
  • Purchases: 2
Encounters Bear Safety
From: Encounters: Radio Experiences in the North
Series: Encounters
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Go to an area in Alaska that has one of the highest grizzly bear populations in the world and find out how humans can live near bears safely.

Bought by KCHU, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KTRT RADIO INC, KDUR, KMXT and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 10
Julie and the Snails
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Julie Keene harvests snails for a living, but she's had to give that up to fight against a major corporation.

Bought by PRX Remix, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and The Nature Podcast


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 08:33
  • Purchases: 4
Careful What You Shoot
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Deer Stories
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Two men tell stories about gun accidents and talk about the responsibility that comes with handling firearms

Bought by PRX Remix and WTIP


  • Added: Oct 13, 2006
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 2