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2021-12-10 Climate Miseducation
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Climate change science isn’t taught accurately —or equally — across the country. Investigative reporter Katie Worth dug into textbooks and talked w...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Dec 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
211210: Climate Miseducation, 12/10/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Climate change science isn’t taught accurately —or equally — across the country. Investigative reporter Katie Worth dug into textbooks and talked w...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
AMOS 21.243: Science Says You Should Read to Your Baby, 12/7/2021
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Science Says You Should Read to Your Baby

  • Added: Nov 18, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
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
2021-09-19 What Do We Owe Future Generations?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is it possible to have obligations to people who don't yet exist?

Bought by KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), KSKQ, KTSW 89.9, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 20, 2021
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 8
Shianna Stewart
From: KXCI
Series: Thesis Thursday
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I am a graduating Senior at the University of Arizona with a degree in Plant Science.

  • Added: Jun 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:19
A New Process
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Tim Stover is a sculptor exploring the medium of glass, creating work through two different methods. One, reassembling broken sections of glass int...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2021
  • Length: 06:14
Arch Vibrations
From: KZMU Moab Community Radio
Series: Science Moab
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Arches are always vibrating. The unique size and shape of each arch produces a unique wave frequency that it vibrates at. We talk with Jeff Moore...

Bought by KDXI - Radio St George


  • Added: Apr 20, 2021
  • Length: 18:22
  • Purchases: 1
How to Understand the Ocean
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: visualcapitalist.com/countries-by-share-of-earths-surface, Credit: Virtual Capitalist: Visualizing Countries By Share of Earth's Surface
This week on World Ocean Radio: part twenty-five of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode: the importance of ocean literacy and ocean ed...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2021
  • Length: 05:15
Diversifying Power
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jennie C. Stephens
The inadequate response to the Covid-19 pandemic in the US has also thwarted the country’s response to the climate crisis. Some feel it’s due to le...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 02, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Why are the Junipers dying?
From: KZMU Moab Community Radio
Series: Science Moab
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When it comes to arid climates, junipers are some of the toughest trees around. But in the past two years, southeastern Utah has seen huge swathes ...

Bought by KDXI - Radio St George


  • Added: Oct 31, 2020
  • Length: 21:03
  • Purchases: 1
Permian Extinction
From: KZMU Moab Community Radio
Series: Science Moab
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A unique combination of events came together at the end of Permian time (250 million years ago)that resulted in the extinction of more the 90% of l...

Bought by KDXI - Radio St George


  • Added: Oct 31, 2020
  • Length: 31:05
  • Purchases: 1
Who is Listening?
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week on World Ocean Radio: part nine of the multi-part BLUEprint series. Myriad organizations, environmental groups and fervent individuals ar...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Oct 13, 2020
  • Length: 05:45
  • Purchases: 1
What is Ocean Equity?
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: From the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy Blue Paper: "Towards Ocean Equity"
This week on World Ocean Radio: part three of a multi-part series entitled "BLUEprint: How the Ocean Will Save Civilization". In this episode, WHAT...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2020
  • Length: 04:51
082420: UnPolluting Earth, 8/24/2020
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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Pollution is a problem around the globe, and we learn some of the ways to un-pollute dirty and contaminated places.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
2020-08-07 Billion Dollar Burger
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Long before the coronavirus began disrupting America’s trillion-dollar meat industry, lab-grown proteins were upending the way we consume chicken, ...

Bought by WGCU, KUHF, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Aug 06, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 8
Heat: The Silent Killer
From: KZMU Moab Community Radio
Series: Science Moab
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Extreme heat can be dangerous and is often called the "silent killer". We talk with Kirsten Goldstein, a grad student at Utah State University in ...

Bought by KDXI - Radio St George, KVSC, and KRZA


  • Added: Aug 05, 2020
  • Length: 23:58
  • Purchases: 3
Jonathan Harr – Toxic Water, A Book
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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A Civil Action Water, a necessary element to our survival is expected to be pure, safe and clean when it comes into our home. When it is polluted...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jul 17, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Lake Powell 2020
From: KZMU Moab Community Radio
Series: Science Moab
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Sixty years after its creation, Lake Powell faces an uncertain future with increasing drought and limited runoff into the Colorado River Basin. He...

Bought by KDXI - Radio St George, KGNU Community Radio, and 'The Sea'


  • Added: Jun 17, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Sargasso Sea
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Lines of sargassum can stretch for miles along the surface of the Sargasso Sea. The clumps of floating algae are often concentrated by the strong winds and wave action associated with the Gulf Stream, Credit: Ocean Explorer | NOAA
This week on World Ocean Radio we discuss the Sargasso Sea--a verdant, vital, biodiverse ecosystem that supports a great diversity of life, provide...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2020
  • Length: 05:25
Can we get rid of driftnets?
From: Possibly
Caption: Sea turtle caught in a ghost net
Driftnets are fishing nets that have largely fallen out of fashion because they can accidentally catch other marine life. But it's still legal to u...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 26, 2020
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 1
Every Child in the Woods
From: Elia Powers
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Nature-based preschools are becoming increasingly popular. A school director in Seattle explains why children benefit from time in the woods.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 21, 2020
  • Length: 05:50
  • Purchases: 1
Ocean Literacy Series Conclusion
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Taken during the November 2015 run of the Sally Ride EarthKAM aboard the International Space Station. Students on Earth programmed the camera aboard the orbiting laboratory to snap pictures around the globe., Credit: NASA/EarthKAM.org
This week concludes the nine-part ocean literacy series, a framework for formal and informal education to help us better understand the ocean's inf...

  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 04:35
Ocean Literacy: The Ocean is Largely Unexplored
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Deep ocean research off the Western Coast of Hawaii: the first time this species of squid was spotted in its natural habitat, Credit: NOAA Okeanos Explorer
"The ocean is largely unexplored." So states the seventh and final Ocean Literacy principle, a series of fundamental concepts to help us better und...

  • Added: May 05, 2020
  • Length: 04:52