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This week on the show: The evolution of our plastic dependency. Plastics have only been around for a little over a century. But in that time, t...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
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A postcard from each edge of the Americas.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: Nucleus of Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, Credit: Jan Erik Vallestad
Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks comes near the Sun once every 71 years. It was discovered in 1812 by Jean Louis Pons at Marseilles, France and then rediscov...

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  • Added: Apr 21, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Deep dive: Mercury’s tantalizing promise of endless gold in South America. Mercury’s a known pollutant in fish, but did you know one of the bigges...

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


  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
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Last year, thick smoke from Canadian wildfires wafted down and blanketed a broad swath of the East Coast - from New York to North Carolina. The wil...

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  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Last year, thick smoke from Canadian wildfires wafted down and blanketed a broad swath of the East Coast - from New York to North Carolina. The wil...

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  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 3
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Last year, thick smoke from Canadian wildfires wafted down and blanketed a broad swath of the East Coast - from New York to North Carolina. The wil...

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  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Last year, thick smoke from Canadian wildfires wafted down and blanketed a broad swath of the East Coast - from New York to North Carolina. The wil...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KIYU-FM, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Itakowa, Credit: NASA
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Vivian Carjaval was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Ursa Minor with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. ...

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  • Added: Apr 14, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
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This week, Living Planet delves deep into the illegal bushmeat trade from the tropical forest of the DRC all the way to Brussels international airp...

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  • Added: Apr 11, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
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We look at how Africanfuturist writers have been imagining the future of climate change on the African continent and why their visions of the futur...

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  • Added: Apr 10, 2024
  • Length: 35:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Artists conception space rock and Earth, Credit: PIXABAY
Perhaps the most dangerous Amor asteroid is 2006 HZ51 .It was discovered by my team the Catalina Sky Survey. Fortunately the closest 2006 HZ51 wil...

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  • Added: Apr 07, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
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What’s better: Cotton or polyester? Are you torn over your clothing's environmental impact? From resource-intensive production methods to consumer ...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Arietid meteor shower, Credit: GETTY
P/1999 J6 (SOHO) was discovered 10 May 1995 by Mike Oates as part of the Citizen Science Sun Grazer Project in which volunteers from all over the w...

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  • Added: Mar 31, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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How roads are transforming the ecology of our planet, and an ode to the crow.

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
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Caption: A fragment of the Asteroid 2024 BX1 recovered in Germany is a rare meteorite class called Aubrite, Credit: SETI
It all started when Krisztián Sárneczky at the Konkoly Observatory near Budapest, Hungary reported the position and brightness of an unknown astero...

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  • Added: Mar 24, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
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What’s better: Contact lenses or glasses? It seems like glasses would be the obvious eco-friendly choice, but not so fast! The answer is both fasci...

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
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Caption: Timely, In Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Biden’s Contradictory, Deadly Gaza Policies Prioritize Rhetoric Over Actio...

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  • Added: Mar 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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A bottom up solution for saving rainforests worldwide.

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  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:34
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Artists Conception Earth and Asteroid, Credit: Texas A&M
My new Catalina Sky Survey Teammate Vivian Carjaval was scheduled for three 13h long winter nights for her first solo observing run on our Schmidt ...

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  • Added: Mar 17, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: The Catch Logo, Credit: Foreign Policy
On this episode of The Catch hear how one of the Arctic’s most valuable fisheries—cod—is being impacted by the politics of Russia’s war in Ukraine ...

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  • Added: Mar 15, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
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A deep dive into mining in Brazil. The Latin American country is the second largest exporter of iron ore in the world. The resource makes up a sub...

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  • Added: Mar 14, 2024
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Comet ISON, Credit: HST
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Josh Hogan was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Taurus with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona wh...

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  • Added: Mar 10, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
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Caption: Milky Way Rising Cosmic Campground, Credit: David Thornburg
In 1924 the Aldo Leopold Wilderness in southwestern New Mexico became the first designated wilderness and is an island from which to view the natur...

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  • Added: Mar 03, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Can you teach a flock of birds how to migrate? We find out on a journey from Germany to Spain. And the latest in our environmental dilemma segment ...

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  • Added: Feb 29, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2