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Humans have been altering the climate for a long time – but how long, exactly? This question is central to the Anthropocene debate. When did the hu...
Bought by WMPG
- Added: Aug 24, 2016
- Length: 24:11
- Purchases: 1
Who doesn't enjoy that refreshing feeling when you walk in from 90 degree heat to the cool blast of an air-conditioned room? Last month extreme hea...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio
- Added: Aug 16, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Hundreds gathered Tuesday to watch the Port Clinton lighthouse make a half-mile journey down the Portage River to a new home on Lake Erie. The 120-...
Bought by WXXI Rochester and WBFO
- Added: Aug 16, 2016
- Length: 01:18
- Purchases: 2
The Anthropocene is characterized by exponential global change driven by human activity. But humans have been impacting the planet since the very e...
- Added: Aug 16, 2016
- Length: 26:34
The very idea of an Anthropocene suggests that the world is changing faster than ever before. And a growing number of historians, archeologists, a...
- Added: Aug 10, 2016
- Length: 33:04
This week, we explore communication: how do we talk? how do we hear? and what the hell are we even saying? And what about the rest of the animal k...
- Added: Aug 10, 2016
- Length: 19:27
Shipwrecks are a big draw for divers and tourists in the great lakes. Now – for the first time in 20 years -- more communities are getting help in ...
Bought by WXXI Rochester, WCPN, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WBFO, and North Country Public Radio
- Added: Aug 10, 2016
- Length: 03:38
- Purchases: 5
Everything you didn't want to know about mountain lions!
- Added: Aug 26, 2015
- Length: 03:00:01
Air raid sirens were designed to alert the public of incoming enemy attacks during World War II. But 50 years ago--during the worst tornado outbrea...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 04:52
During the last 150 years, most of Minnesota’s native prairies have been destroyed—converted into farmland for crops like corn and soybeans. But a ...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 05:55
- Purchases: 1
The Searsville Dam is causing big trouble on the peninsula. The 122-year-old, 65-foot-tall dam is closed to the public, hidden away on 1,200 acres ...
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 06:41
With so much focus on the BP oil spill and the havoc it has wrought on the Gulf Coast, it's easy to overlook the broader, more long-term environmen...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Feb 03, 2015
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
In 2002, Juan Carlos Cancino, was riding his bike around town and found an entire city block of dilapidated greenhouses, near a hill in the Portola...
- Added: Jan 13, 2015
- Length: 08:44
Something unusual happens about a half mile under the sea. Ocean physics create a special zone where sound travels for hundreds, even thousands of ...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, American Voices, Hark!, KFAI Minneapolis and more
- Added: Aug 26, 2014
- Length: 11:11
- Purchases: 11
March 27, 2014 marked the 50th Anniversary of the Good Friday Earthquake in Alaska. What was that day like for teens and young people living in Anc...
- Added: Apr 04, 2014
- Length: 07:41
March 27, 2014 marked the 50th Anniversary of the Good Friday Earthquake in Alaska. What was that day like for teens and young people living in Anc...
- Added: Apr 04, 2014
- Length: 04:09
March 27, 2014 marked the 50th Anniversary of the Good Friday Earthquake in Alaska. What was that day like for teens and young people living in Anc...
- Added: Apr 04, 2014
- Length: 02:59
The area’s so flat that every bunny hill seems a candidate. But, no, really — where is it?
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 12, 2013
- Length: 06:53
- Purchases: 1
Only 120 copies of John Audubon’s Birds of America are known to exist and one complete set is stored in a climate controlled vault at the Minneapol...
- Added: Oct 03, 2011
- Length: 05:30
Although the World Bank wants to be thought of as green, figures reveal that the Bank is flooding the third world with fossil fuel energy projects.
- Added: Nov 11, 2010
- Length: 02:00
Stand on a street corner at dawn in Newmarket, England and you'll see a spectacle unique in the world: 3,000 racehorses parade through town every d...
- Added: Apr 22, 2010
- Length: 05:38
- Added: Jul 29, 2009
- Length: 04:19
- Purchases: 2
