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Living Planet 07/26/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Haiti's ecological farmers - In the aftermath of natural disasters, decades of political crisis and facing an increasin...

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


  • Added: Jul 25, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Living Planet 07/19/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Life's a beach - Summer is a time of sun, sea, and sand. But sand isn't just the stuff of beach holidays — we hear how ...

Bought by KRZA, WRGY, WFIU, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Jul 18, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
542-Toughest Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An asteroid has been discovered that comes very near to the Sun where it receives 12.6 times the radiation that heats the planet Mercury's surface...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WLPR and more


  • Added: May 31, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Living Planet 05/03/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: All about greener transport around the world — from eco-motorbikes in Uganda to the cycle-mad city of Utrecht. And we talk...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KRZA, and WFIU


  • Added: May 03, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
531-Alex's Catch
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On a cold windy night, with clouds frustrating his search, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Alex Gibbs discovered 8 new celestial visitors while obs...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, KUPR low power FM, WTIP and more


  • Added: Mar 15, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
530-Cuban Meteorites
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A large fireball meteor which exploded over Cuba produced a number of interesting results.

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
529-Africano 4
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey Teammate Brian Africano discovered his 4th comet while asteroid hunting in the constellation of Ursa Major with our Schmidt ...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Mar 02, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
528-Asteroid Billiards
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test or DART for short will test methods to make a dangerous asteroid miss Earth.

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP, WLPR and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
525-Collision
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The object which the 2.3 mile diameter Gault hit is likely to have been a third of a mile diameter space rock. This celestial crash left Gault with...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WLPR , KRWG and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
WildAid CEO Peter Knights
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Peter Knights
Have you ever seen one of those ads with a celebrity like Jackie Chan or Leonardo DiCaprio beside a beautiful, rare animal? If so, there’s a good c...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
521-Lunar Space Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Growler discovered an Earth approaching asteroid which has a speed consistent with it being eject...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WLPR , WTIP and more


  • Added: Jan 05, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
520-Comet Lemmon
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An interstellar traveler visits our neighborhood on its tour of the Milky Way.

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, KUPR low power FM, WLPR and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
519-Greg's Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The discovery of a Jupiter family comet whose fate is to become a garden variety main belt asteroid.

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, KRWG, WLPR and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
505-What A Night
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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To give you an idea of the celestial traffic in our neighborhood, on a recent clear night, using our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona, my C...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WLPR , KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Oct 18, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Living Planet 09/21/208
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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Living Planet: Earth, wind and fire - This week on the show: Preventing mining pollution in Brazil, wind power finally taking off in Lebanon, ...

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


  • Added: Sep 20, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 5
480-A Large Visitor
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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
The Last Straw: Mark Marinozzi + Romain Troublé
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Romain Troublé
The next time you sip on a drink from a straw, you may want to think twice because humans are producing an inordinate amount of plastic waste on st...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
478-Comet Leonard III
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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
475-Lonely Fragment
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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
474-Earth-Venus Shuttle
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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
Spencer Wise: There’s No Business Like Shoe Business
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Spencer Wise
Take a look at the shoes you’re wearing right now. You’ve probably logged more than a few miles in them already. But what kind of journey did they ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 26, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
466-Dangerous Impactors
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Asteroid hunters have discovered more than 90% of the Earth approaching asteroids whose impact could cause global climate change. It was thus unus...

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


  • Added: Jun 02, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
461-Brian's First
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Brian Africano's first Potentially Hazardous Asteroid discovery can come near to the Earth and Mars.

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


  • Added: May 17, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Transition Network Founder Rob Hopkins
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rob Hopkins
What would it take to get your neighborhood, community, or town to unify behind the shift to sustainability? This week on Sea Change Radio, we spea...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 01, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Living Planet 04/13/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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Living Planet: extreme weather and us Hurricanes, floods, fires, droughts – as our planet warms, extreme weather events are becoming more frequen...

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


  • Added: Apr 12, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4