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Whatever Happened to Acid Rain?
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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It's complicated.

  • Added: Jan 17, 2019
  • Length: 32:16
Shipwrecks in the Grand Marais Harbor?
From: WTIP
Series: Historic Cook County
Caption: The Liberty in the Grand Marais Harbor, with lighthouse in the background
Lake Superior is well known as a graveyard for many shipwrecks, but some people might be surprised to learn that at least two ships have the Grand ...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2018
  • Length: 08:23
John McClow — Water wrangling in the American West (Part one)
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes talks with water law expert John McClow.

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Dec 06, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Tom Fleischner — The natural history of wellness and oneness
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes speaks with ecologist and author Dr. Tom Fleischner.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Nov 29, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Let's Visit the Chippewa National Forest: Archaeologist Sean Dunham
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Let's Visit
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An archeologist explains the history of the Chippewa National Forest

  • Added: Nov 16, 2018
  • Length: 04:51
Welcome To Dirt-Pile City
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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The aftermath of the Great Hi-Desert Deluge of Autumn 2018. In fact, officials at Joshua Tree Town Hall are considering renaming the village "Dirt-...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 09, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Peter Brannen, author of "The Ends of the World"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Bob Kustra speaks with Peter Brannen about Earth's mass-extinctions and piecing together the details with the world's leading paleontologists and g...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Oct 09, 2018
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 1: We The Purple
From: PurpleState
Series: PurpleState
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eTown’s PurpleState Episode 1, We the Purple, explores the structural, historical, and cultural forces that have contributed to political division ...

Bought by Angelica Community Radio and KVNF


  • Added: Oct 07, 2018
  • Length: 57:58
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 1: A Radical Approach to Disaster Relief
From: Tom Llewellyn
Series: The Response
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In the first episode of The Response, we ask the question: how do communities come together in the aftermath of disasters—often in the face of ina...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Oct 02, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
She swears if you do this, you’ll hear it…
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Delia Owens, the co-author of several nonfiction books on African research and wildlife, has penned her debut novel, “Where the Crawdads Sing.” Thi...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2018
  • Length: 09:50
Moonshine and Prohibition (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-South Carolina banned the sale of alcohol in 1915. But the state itself had established its own dispensary system more than a decade earlier. -Moo...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan, Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 20, 2018
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 9
Author Grant Merritt on the history of protecting Minnesota's environment
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Grant Merritt, author of "Iron and Water: My Life Protecting Minnesota's Environment" was recently in Grand Marais and gave a presentation at the ...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2018
  • Length: 23:52
Early Spring
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
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Spring is arriving early to North American wildlife refuges because of climate change.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, Spokane Public Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Dispossessed, Chapter 10; Wolftown, Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Jones Mountain cabin
It started with the red wolves at Alligator River, took me out to the Blue Ridge Mountains, then down to a tribal gathering of the Chickahominy in ...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2018
  • Length: 26:43
Free the Beaches
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Free the Beaches tells the story of activist Ned Coll and his campaign to open New England’s shoreline to African Americans, as northern white fami...

Bought by WCNY, WFHB, WYAP, Harford Community Radio, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 27, 2018
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 11
Free the Beaches
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Free the Beaches tells the story of activist Ned Coll and his campaign to open New England’s shoreline to African Americans, as northern white fami...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, WJCT, KMUN, KMXT, WVAS and more


  • Added: Aug 27, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 9
Tesla—No Not the Car, the Prolific Inventor
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Clean energy expert Richard Munson’s newest biography is "Tesla. Inventor of the Modern.” Serbian-American Nikola Tesla, born more than 150 years ...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2018
  • Length: 09:55
Ice World Travels 20,000 Years Ago: Craig Childs
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Nature writer Craig Childs is the author of Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America. It’s a travelogue of places and people, just like us...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2018
  • Length: 09:56
RDD: RDD at the 577
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Founded by Virginia Secor Stranahan, The 577 Foundation is dedicated to preserving the integrity of the historic property at 577 East Front Street ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 20, 2018
  • Length: 06:22
  • Purchases: 2
The Dispossessed, Part 7; The Mountain People, Chapter 3
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Ida Valley, Credit: Charles McGuigan
It all started with the red wolves who now live, for the most part, in eastern North Carolina at Alligator River. These wolves had once numbered in...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2018
  • Length: 24:33
The Dispossessed, Part 6; The Mountain People, Chapter 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Katrina Powell, Credit: Charles McGuigan
Just as the red wolves were dispossessed of their homes so too were the people who had inhabited the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia for many gene...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2018
  • Length: 25:06
Love Canal, 40 years later
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Children protest at Love Canal, Credit: Center for Health, Environment & Justice
This week marked the 40th anniversary of the federal emergency declaration at Love Canal, the New York neighborhood endanger by industrial pollutio...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and North Country Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 05:12
  • Purchases: 3
Steven Stoll, Ramp Hollow & Rachel Cleetus, Underwater
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with Steven Stoll about his brilliant history of Appalachia: Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia. Then, coastal property values are threa...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
Spectrum 08/07/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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In this week's show : we hear from the first 'test tube baby' 40 years later, find hot and bothered Germans (who also sit too much), long live the...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Aug 08, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1

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