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There’s a parasite inhabiting the bodies of crabs, and making them infertile.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KMUN, WFHB, WJCT, WYAP and more


  • Added: Apr 15, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
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There’s a parasite inhabiting the bodies of crabs, and making them infertile.

Bought by KXCV, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Apr 15, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
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HOUR ONE: "Plants As People" - If plants are intelligent beings, how should we relate to them? Do they have a place in our moral universe? Should t...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:59
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Modern West-Part 1 of 12 in our Ghost Towning Series and HumaNature... close encounters of the wild kind.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Apr 14, 2022
  • Length: 51:16
  • Purchases: 2
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The Amah Mutsun Ohlone are fighting to save their most sacred Indigenous site — a place called Juristac. Contributors Robert Raymond and Della Dunc...

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


  • Added: Mar 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Libraries weren't always located in their own stately buildings. Many of our branches used to operate out of pharmacies, laundry rooms, storefronts...

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 26:16
  • Purchases: 1
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Tonight we visit with the friendly ghost of John Muir, specifically regarding his many excursions in the California deserts. New soundscapes by Red...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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HOUR ONE: "Growing Justice" - Where does the racial justice movement need to go next? How about back to the land. HOUR TWO: "Everything is Exhaus...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:59
Caption: Julian Brave NoiseCat, LaNada War Jack and Clayton Thomas Müller
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes. From the historic Indigenous occupation of Alcatraz Island in 1969 to the fossil fuel fights througho...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
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Author of the 2022 book EDEN'S LAST HORIZON: POEMS FOR THE EARTH, Georgia nature writer and poet Philip Lee Williams discusses his earlier poetry b...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Feb 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In this episode, we explore the mass acceleration of nearly every process on earth that began in Britain in the 1700s during the Industrial Revolut...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Feb 15, 2022
  • Length: 48:25
  • Purchases: 1
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Back from our brief convalescence to bring you desert prayers in the night — Ancient Egyptian prayers & psalms, in this case. And some tales of Mul...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 11, 2022
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Real estate development conjures up images of gentrification with sleek buildings and polished store fronts often built under the guise of urban re...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN, and WNYE


  • Added: Feb 09, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
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HOUR ONE: "Searching For Order In The Universe" - The universe is full of mystery. This hour, what do fish and eels have to do with the maddening s...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:01
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A postcard from the Sierra Nevada.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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What would it look like for midwestern farmers to convert row crops into tree crops?

  • Added: Dec 09, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
Caption: Seeds from a Mexican sunflower plant held by seed saver and educator Beth Bridgeman, who grows the plants on her rural property in Greene County, Ohio., Credit: Lauren Shows
When we think about a seed, what do we imagine? A possibility, maybe — a discovery. Waiting beneath the soil to unfold into something new, our seed...

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Dec 09, 2021
  • Length: 25:16
  • Purchases: 1
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Like the beaver, we can change parts of our environment. Like the birds, we can move to other lands or at least try. And sometimes those Other Land...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 19, 2021
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
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HOUR ONE: "Shapeshifting" - Seals that can turn into women, men who transform into wolves… Stories about shape-shifting are among the oldest in th...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
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HOUR ONE: "Living With Loneliness" - In countries all over the world, rates of loneliness are skyrocketing. How did it become a condition of modern...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
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You probably learned in school that the Earth is not a perfect sphere but rather an "oblate spheroid" meaning that it bulges a bit at the equator. ...

Bought by KSPB Pebble Beach


  • Added: Nov 11, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Garden Museum entrance
Last week on Cultivating Place, we looked at Gardens and history through the lens of an historic Garden Cemetery – this week we look at Garden Hist...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: The Great Miami River as seen from downtown Dayton’s RiverScape Metro Park. This area of Dayton would have been about 20 feet underwater in 1913 following the Great Dayton Flood. , Credit: Lauren Shows
Water has a power unlike almost any other element on Earth. In large enough quantities or with enough force behind it, water can effectively lay wa...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 22:05
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The story of Canarsie in reverse, from the racial unrest in the 1990s, to the anti-integration school boycotts in the 1960s, the community of Canar...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 26:41
Caption: Dr. Craig Schluttenhofer measuring hemp plants at the Central State University research plots, Credit: Renee Wilde
Hemp seeds were first introduced to North America by European colonists and were grown to produce everything from rope and canvas, to paper, paints...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2021
  • Length: 21:33