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This week on the show: Raptors illegally hunted in Scotland, protecting vultures and cranes in Kenya, Spain's trash-gobbling storks - Whether y...

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  • Added: Feb 15, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: A sample of corallimorphs collected by ROV Jason and photographed under a blacklight to demonstrate florescence., Credit: NOAA
This week on World Ocean Radio: part twenty-four of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode: the myriad ways that UNESCO World Heritage Si...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2021
  • Length: 05:40
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This week on the show: Feeding forests - We find out how we can feed forests so they can sustain us. Forest defenders in Romania are standing up...

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Out and about - As rising numbers of COVID-19 infections keep us home, you may be dreaming of getting out and about. In...

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  • Added: Jan 19, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Greener pastures post-Brexit, invisible waste & the abuse environmentalists face online - We hear how new measures in the...

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  • Added: Jan 09, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Some greats from a grueling year - In this year-end special, we reflect on the challenges of the pandemic and beyond. F...

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  • Added: Jan 01, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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On some nights an asteroid hunter searches for Earth approaching objects near the ecliptic plane where the planets and most of the asteroids are lo...

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  • Added: Dec 26, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
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Although the orbit of an Aten asteroid crosses our path in space on its travel about the Sun it stays mostly inside the Earth's orbit making it dif...

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Caption: Artists Conception Apophis, Credit: Dan Durda – FIAAA
Currently scientists, governments, and private citizens are preparing to mitigate a disaster caused by a large incoming space rock. To test techn...

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  • Added: Dec 04, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin searched for asteroids, as close to the Sun as possible with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lem...

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  • Added: Nov 28, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
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This week on the show: Drowning in plastic - We find out how people are tackling plastic pollution around the world, from testing British wate...

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  • Added: Nov 23, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Teddy Pruyne was observing in the constellation Lacerta with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona ...

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  • Added: Nov 20, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
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Caption: Fitzgerald River National Park in Western Australia, Credit: Yewenyi, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1370203
In western Australia, rock samples and maps of the local geology obtained while exploring for gold show evidence of a 3 mile diameter meteor crater...

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  • Added: Nov 13, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
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A large solar coronal mass ejection could put astronauts, airline passengers, power grids, electronic devices, and satellites at risk. Participa...

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  • Added: Nov 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
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This week on the show: What’s in our air? - It’s all around us and critical for life: air. But besides oxygen, that gas we breathe to live, wha...

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  • Added: Nov 06, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on the show: Lifestyle choices - We learn about how much our food should really cost, what decluttering a family home can entail, and ...

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The Atira class of Earth approaching asteroids are ones whose orbit is entirely within that of the Earth's path about the Sun. Less than 3 dozen o...

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
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Recently, in the journal Nature Astronomy, a team of astronomers led by Dr. Faustine Cantalloube of the Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy released...

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  • Added: Oct 23, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
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This week on the show: Elephants and dingos and bears (oh my!) - From Zimbabwe to Australia to Italy, we meet the communities living alongside ...

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  • Added: Oct 22, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Most life on Earth is synchronized to the regular cycles of day and night. Until about a hundred years ago, the natural night sky was familiar to ...

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
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Auroral displays have been observed and reported on throughout human history. Data from NASA's 5 Themis (Themm us) satellites analyzed by powerfu...

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  • Added: Oct 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
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Caption: Atmospheric gravity waves seen from space, Credit:  Jeff Schmaltz – (NASA)
Atmospheric gravity waves can be powerful. In September of 2018 two glider pilots surfed an atmospheric gravity wave created by high speed polar w...

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  • Added: Oct 02, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
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This week on the show: Creatures great and small - From caring for baby monkeys in Kenya, once mighty lions in Sudan to genetically modified mos...

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  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Statistically asteroid hunters have found more than 90% of the asteroids whose impact could cause global climate change. However, recently, my Ca...

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  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: #RGB’s Final Wish Inspires ‘Ruthless’ Battle to Stop Confirmation of New J...

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  • Added: Sep 23, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2