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The fireball meteor streaking across the sky the early evening of January 17, 2018, witnessed by 700 observers in 11 States and Canada was also rec...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM, KKRN and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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On this week's show, we join treetop activists in Germany's Hambach Forest as they fight to save the land from being mined for brown coal, we ventu...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KMUN, KUPR low power FM, and WFIU


  • Added: Sep 13, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
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On this week's show: Pesticides and our Food - Thanks to the invention of pesticides, fresh foods can be imported from every corner of the worl...

Bought by KMUN, KRZA, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KUPR low power FM, and WFIU


  • Added: Aug 24, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 5
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Living Planet: Apes - Apes are humans' closest relatives, but these creatures are increasingly endangered. From Asia to Africa, human activi...

Bought by KRZA, KMUN, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KUPR low power FM, and WFIU


  • Added: Aug 17, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 5
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On this week's show: we dedicate a full show to the important resource of water. We'll hear from water conservationist Rajendra Singh who's bringi...

Bought by KRZA, KUPR low power FM, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WFIU


  • Added: Aug 09, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Asteroid hunters have discovered a strange asteroid pair. How they came to be together and what humans would do if such a large double trouble obje...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WLPR , KKRN, and KUPR low power FM


  • Added: Aug 02, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
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This week on Living Planet: how much is too much? Just how many visitors are too many? The Greek island of Santorini struggles with tourism number...

Bought by KMUN, KRZA, KUPR low power FM, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WFIU


  • Added: Aug 02, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 5
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An object is tracked in outer space, seen to explode in our atmosphere, and had a fragment of it discovered on the ground. Its analysis will help h...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jul 29, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Living Planet: Drought grips farmers - It's hot out there. The heat wave sweeping across the northern hemisphere this week has farmers worried, e...

Bought by KUPR low power FM, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WFIU


  • Added: Jul 26, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
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On this week's show: Bracing ourselves for heat waves, earthquakes and poor infrastructure: We'll hear how cities are vulnerable to heat and how ...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
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Statistically, asteroid hunters are thought to have discovered 90% of our potentially dangerous celestial neighbors greater than 1 KM in diameter. ...

Bought by KENW, WLPR , KSFR, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Jul 20, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Living Planet: Disgusting creatures - Tarantulas, scorpions and cockroaches are not appealing — but they are important! Eels in Canada are bei...

Bought by KMUN, KRZA, KUPR low power FM, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WFIU


  • Added: Jul 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 5
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard knew he had bagged his third comet when he spotted an unknown fuzzy object with a broad tail moving th...

Bought by KENW, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, WTIP, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jul 13, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Living Planet: Strokes of genius - When it comes to protecting the environment, sometimes the most unusual ideas are the best ones. From using d...

Bought by KRZA, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KUPR low power FM, and WFIU


  • Added: Jul 12, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 4
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World in Progress: Mines, Migrants and Resistance - In this 'week's edition: Secret resistance in Cambodia; Mining in Brazil - does it reall...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
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On July 1, 1770 Comet Lexell passed about 6 times the moon's distance from planet Earth, the closest a comet has ever come to humanity. After tha...

Bought by KENW, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, WTIP, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jul 06, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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A 2000 foot diameter space rock has stories to tell about violent events long ago. Asteroid hunters are eager to track this huge collision fragment...

Bought by KENW, KUPR low power FM, WTIP, KKRN, Bandon Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
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A 100 foot diameter asteroid is spotted on one of it's regular trips between the orbits of Venus and Earth. It's ultimate fate is to collide with o...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, Bandon Community Radio, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KSFR and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Living Planet: “Sisters are doin’ it!” - Women in Saudi Arabia made the headlines this week. They are now allowed to drive, thanks not least ...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KUPR low power FM, and WFIU


  • Added: Jun 28, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is conducting a six year flight from Earth to a potentially hazardous asteroid, Ryugu, and return a sample ...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, Bandon Community Radio, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jun 28, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Two exciting new scientific discoveries have ignited our curiosity and are guiding our search for evidence of past and/or present life on Mars.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM, KRWG, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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A small space rock with a diameter less than the height of an NBA basketball player had just crossed the orbit of our Moon on a collision course wi...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM, KRWG, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jun 21, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Spectrum: Smart cities in Finland - On this week's show: A smart city? Going by what the experts tell us, the cities of the future will be d...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jun 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Living Planet: Building eco-metropolises - Ever more people in the world are living in urban areas. But how can we make our cities sustainable? ...

Bought by KRZA, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KUPR low power FM, and WFIU


  • Added: Jun 07, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Living Planet: Spring cleaning - This week on the show. It's time for a bit of spring cleaning, whether it's your summer wardrobe, the local ...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KUPR low power FM, WFIU, and KRZA


  • Added: May 24, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 4