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Divers chronicle Great Lakes shipwreck that left 32 dead
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: The Admiral shipwreck, Credit: Marc Duncan
There’s more than just fish and sand in the Great Lakes – there are thousands of ships, airplanes, and other vehicles under the water. A story on ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, WRVO Public Media, WCMU Michigan, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 8
AMOS 17.133: Our Earliest Ancestor, 7/5/2017
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Our Earliest Ancestor

  • Added: May 12, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
The Write Question - Jordan Fisher Smith - 275
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Jordan Fisher Smith talks about and reads from 'Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, A Trial, and the Fight Over Controlling Nature

Bought by KWMR, KSFR, KGLT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KCMJ Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 06, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
AMOS 17.078: When Continents Collide, 4/19/2017
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
When Continents Collide

  • Added: Feb 06, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
Biology professors Carl & Jane Bock and “Coronado’s Trail,” a debut mystery
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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After decades of field work in southern Arizona, these two retired Univ of Colorado professors have authored the first in their Arizona Borderlands...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2016
  • Length: 09:56
Oil Boom Earthquakes
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
Caption: Huntington Beach, 1926, Credit: Photo Courtesy of the Orange County Archives Barbara K. Milkovich Collection CC BY 2.0, via flickr
Did early 20th century oil wells in southern California trigger major earthquakes?

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, KSFR, KENW and more


  • Added: Nov 05, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 7
Geology expert John Green visits Cook County
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Prof. John Green is a retired geology professor from UMD whose specialty is the geology of the Arrowhead region. He stopped in to chat with WTIP's ...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2016
  • Length: 13:15
Climate Change: The Beginning
From: Generation Anthropocene
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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
Early Humans and Megafauna
From: Generation Anthropocene
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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
What's in a Word?
From: Generation Anthropocene
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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
Lauret Savoy - Trace, Memory, History, Race and the American Landscape
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
Caption: Lauret Savoy
WV talks with environmental earth scientist and writer Lauret Savoy about her stunning new book, TRACE. In it, Savoy examines how the country’s sti...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
"Northwoods Naturalist" weighs in on possibility of an early spring
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Chel Anderson is a botanist and plant ecologist who has lived and worked on the North Shore since 1974. She's the Northwoods Naturalist on WTIP and...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 17:20
How & where did dogs evolve? Scientist & veterinarian explains
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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A recently published study suggests that all dogs alive today can trace at least some of their ancestry back to dogs that were domesticated 33,000 ...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2016
  • Length: 20:06
Climatologist/meteorologist Mark Seeley recaps 2015 weather
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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2015 was a pretty unusual year for weather. Dr. Mark Seeley, extension climatologist, meteorologist, and professor, and regular guest on Minnesota ...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2016
  • Length: 19:48
Acts of God, Acts of Men:
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Weather Made to Order? , Credit: May 28, 1954 Collier's magazine cover.
When we turn nature into a weapon.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 36:16
Behaving Against Our Interests: Paul Ehrlich #110
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Today it could be argued that human beings daily act against our own self-interests. How? Biologist Paul Ehrlich and fellow scientists tell us we a...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Bandon Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KRZA, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 6
And Now for a Different Kind of Climate Change Story...
From: H2O Radio
Series: Sounds From a Warming Planet
Caption: H2O Radio—Journalism About Water
A true account of climate scientists who didn't know about global warming, but told its story. The Vaux family thought they were just out for a fun...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KVNF, KRZA, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Sep 09, 2015
  • Length: 10:58
  • Purchases: 4
Every Night Ever
From: Nate DiMeo
Series: the memory palace
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A UFO hoax from 1951 featuring two barbers, their buddy, Buddy, the butcher, and a monkey.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KPIK-LP, New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Jul 20, 2015
  • Length: 08:47
  • Purchases: 6
A Natural History of Minnesota's Superior Coast
From: WTIP
Series: The Lake Superior Project
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“North Shore: A Natural History of Minnesota’s Superior Coast” is a major new book written by naturalists Chel Anderson and Heidi Fischer, publishe...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2015
  • Length: 09:20
"Project: Ice" director Bill Kleinert stops by The Roadhouse
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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"Project: Ice" views the Great Lakes through the prism of ice, at the crossroads of history, science and climate change. The film's director and ex...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 19:50
Wake up and Smell the Story: Sniffing out Health and Sickness
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Illustration of a nose., Credit: Wikimedia Commons
If you asked people which of their senses they most feared losing, they'd probably say sight or hearing. But what about the ability to smell? We ex...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Sep 25, 2014
  • Length: 43:58
  • Purchases: 1
700 Fathoms under the Sea
From: David Schulman
Caption: Scientists discovered the "sound channel" in 1944. Whales use it to communicate across oceans — and during the Cold War the Navy secretly used it to track nuclear subs. This 1948 graphic shows sound traveling on an axis 700 fathoms down in the Atlantic., Credit: Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel
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
The River in the Atlantic Ocean
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The Gulf Stream was essential to the early exploration of the New World and continues to influence our climate, weather, environment, and shipping ...

Bought by WJCT, XRAY.fm, KVSC, WEZU, WLIW and more


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Eco-History of Guano
From: WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
Series: Living Lab on The Point
Caption: The depletion of Peru's guano islands lay at the heart of the War of the Pacific. , Credit: Wikimedia Commons
It enabled the industrialization of agriculture, led to the discovery of El Nino, helped spawn the modern environmental movement, and lay at the he...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 49:30
Let There Be Night (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Eight out of 10 children born in America today will never know a night sky dark enough to see the Milky Way. Are we experiencing the end of night?

Bought by WCNY and KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Oct 07, 2013
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 2