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Sonoran Desert Millipede
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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This is the time of year when you see desert millipedes out and about on muggy overcast days. Sometimes even crossing the two lane blacktop roads n...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2022
  • Length: 04:03
Living Planet 05/06/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: European countries have been scrambling to find new energy sources to reduce their dependence on Russia, but some countrie...

Bought by WXDU and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: May 07, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Living Planet 12/10/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Migration, military emissions & how climate change is transforming language - From new words in the dictionary to new mig...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Dec 12, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Living Planet 11/26/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: The price of perfume, climate miseducation in schools & tourism's toll - In the Comoros Islands, the world's demand for y...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Nov 26, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Monsoon Belief System
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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I spent so much time jabbering about my conversion to a desert rat and monsoon believer that I left out some fun stuff. Native bees that buzz poll...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2021
  • Length: 04:43
Stinging Serpent
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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I like the phrase in Arizona Flora about the Loasa family Loasaceae ; it is “remarkable for the diversity and peculiar structure of the hairs.” And...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2021
  • Length: 05:05
533-100 Moons
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A small telescope makes a substantial contribution to our knowledge of the celestial visitors to our neighborhood.

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WLPR , KKRN and more


  • Added: Mar 31, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
532-Teddy's Debut
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On a recent training night with Teddy Pruyne at the controls of our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona, this duo discovered six new Earth Ap...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WLPR , KKRN and more


  • Added: Mar 22, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Petey In His Biome
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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It is nice to have a yard full of native plants. Most of the time I have an idea what and where I want to plant things, but I confess to sometimes ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 04:48
  • Purchases: 1
381-Peaceful Star
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A new appreciation for our Sun is growing as we learn more about other suns and their families of planets.

Bought by KENW, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WLPR , KKRN, and KUPR low power FM


  • Added: Aug 10, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
A Mesquitey Gardening History
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Well, now you know about my personal gardening history. It’s not done. I mean there is history in the making in the garden just outside the front d...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 04:53
A Waning Delta
From: Stephen Baker
Series: Water is a Many Splendor'ed Thing
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The plight of the Delta Smelt is currently dependant on mankind’s desire and ability to revive the health of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in Ca...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2017
  • Length: 04:39
Butterflies, Toads and Fish
From: Stephen Baker
Series: Water is a Many Splendor'ed Thing
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Value of our estuaries and other inland water bodies are recognized while fishing, boating, swimming or viewing nature from a great vantage spot. T...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2017
  • Length: 05:16
Levees, Let's Get it Done
From: Stephen Baker
Series: Water is a Many Splendor'ed Thing
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All of us remember the consequences of Hurricane Katrina and the super storm that hit New York City in 2012. These climatic conditions are likely t...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2017
  • Length: 04:35
Build it and Then What?
From: Stephen Baker
Series: Water is a Many Splendor'ed Thing
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He saw it coming. John thought that water would not be an issue but the County and State of Washington had not quite worked out how groundwater tha...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2017
  • Length: 05:58
359-Ice World
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An Earth sized icy world has been discovered orbiting a small dim star.

Bought by WLPR , KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KUPR low power FM, KRWG and more


  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
316-Weird Centaur
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Centaurs are named after the mythical beasts which were half human and half horse perhaps because they have characteristics of both asteroids and c...

Bought by Radio Newark, KMXT, KENW, KRWG, WLPR and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
301-Visitors From Afar
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A pair of comets visiting our neighborhood are discovered in a matter of 4 days.

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


  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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
280-Ice Volcanoes
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On a dwarf planet, ice volcanos appear to have shaped the surface of Ceres.

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


  • Added: Aug 18, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
279-Hottest
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Our world is undergoing an alarming warming.

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


  • Added: Aug 18, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
269-Gamma Ray Eyes
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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With gamma ray eyes one half of your sky would be dominated by two huge bubbles coming from the center of the Milky Way.

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


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
266-Colliding Planets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Collisions between planets, planetesimals, asteroids, and comets have produced the place where we live and breathe.

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


  • Added: Jun 30, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
264-Tough Guy
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A tough rocky asteroid makes close approaches to the Sun.

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


  • Added: Jun 23, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
262-Shooting Star's Daddy
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The source of the Geminid Meteor shower each December is a strange little asteroid.

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


  • Added: Jun 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7