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Homeowners battle flood waters on Lake Ontario
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Residents assess the damage of flooding along the south shore of Lake Ontario., Credit: Veronica Volk
Residents along the south shore of Lake Ontario are cleaning up after a storm pushed flood water into their yards and homes. With heavy rains forec...

Bought by North Country Public Radio and WBFO


  • Added: May 01, 2017
  • Length: :58
  • Purchases: 2
Drug Take Back Day helps protecting fish in Great Lakes
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Prescription Drug Take Back Day
The New York Sea Grant is urging residents and those who live in the Great Lakes basin to help protect the fresh water source.

Bought by WXXI Rochester, WCPN, WCMU Michigan, WKSU, and WBFO


  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: :53
  • Purchases: 5
Study: Warnings about contaminated fish fall short
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: EPA Photo / Fish Advisory , Credit: EPA Photo / Fish Advisory
The EPA Office of inspector General (OIG) issued a report regarding fish advisory risk communications. The agency found that several states and tri...

Bought by North Country Public Radio, WKSU, WCPN, and WBFO


  • Added: Apr 24, 2017
  • Length: 01:25
  • Purchases: 4
Teachers worry about Trump cuts to Sea Grant program
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Teachers test a classroom activity at SUNY Oswego's Rice Creek field station, Credit: Payne Horning
For years, the Sea Grant program has helped Americans learn about the oceans, the Great Lakes and other waters. Now President Trump wants to stop f...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, WCMU Michigan, North Country Public Radio, WKSU and more


  • Added: Apr 05, 2017
  • Length: 01:26
  • Purchases: 7
Trump recommends 2017 Great Lakes cuts
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: International Joint Commission meeting in Buffalo March 28., Credit: Eileen Koteras Elibol/WBFO
Lots of people were already upset about President Trump’s plan to slash Great Lakes funding in next year’s federal budget. Now he’s recommending a...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, North Country Public Radio, Interlochen Public Radio, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Mar 29, 2017
  • Length: 01:01
  • Purchases: 9
International Joint Commission Visits Buffalo
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Buffalo's view of Lake Erie, Credit: Elizabeth Miller/ideastream
US and Canadian Commissioners representing the Great Lakes met in Buffalo, New York Tuesday to hear from the public on the region’s progress.

Bought by WCMU Michigan, WKSU, WCPN, and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Mar 28, 2017
  • Length: 01:14
  • Purchases: 4
Wetlands an issue for IJC meeting in Buffalo
From: Great Lakes Today
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The International Joint Commission is a bi-national group that helps regulate the Great Lakes. They're hosting a series of public meetings on Great...

Bought by WCPN, WXXI Rochester, WCMU Michigan, and WMUK


  • Added: Mar 20, 2017
  • Length: 01:35
  • Purchases: 4
Trump budget cuts Great Lakes restoration, Sea Grant programs
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Donald Trump, Credit: Nick Castele/ideastream
The proposal now moves to Congress, where Great Lakes Senators and Representatives on both sides of the aisle have pledged to fight back and try to...

Bought by WRVO Public Media, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, North Country Public Radio, WMUK, WKSU and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2017
  • Length: 01:27
  • Purchases: 7
Great Lakes groups lobby Congress for funding
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Tim Eder, executive director of the Great Lakes Commission
Great Lakes advocacy groups are meeting with members of Congress this week to shed light on the region’s priorities.

Bought by WRVO Public Media, WXXI Rochester, WCMU Michigan, WMUK, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 7
Proposed EPA budget cuts 97% from Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Lake Erie, Credit: Elizabeth Miller/ideastream
When the Trump Administration reveals its proposed budget for 2018, it might include a 97 percent cut to the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, a ...

Bought by North Country Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WMUK, WILL, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Mar 03, 2017
  • Length: 01:26
  • Purchases: 6
Great Lakes group calls for rebuilding campaign
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: A combined sewer over flow in Avon Lake, Ohio's Heider Creek, Credit: Elizabeth Miller/ideastream
The Great Lakes Commission, a binational group, released its annual list of priorities, which includes recommendations to improve and rebuild water...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, North Country Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, WRVO Public Media, WMUK and more


  • Added: Mar 02, 2017
  • Length: :58
  • Purchases: 8
Kirk Lombard, Sea Forager
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Kirk Lombard
As more of us are becoming aware of the dark side of the seafood industry, the locavore revolution has been moving full throttle into seafood. This...

Bought by WMUU-LP and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 01, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 2
Local Entrepreneur Works to Reduce Carbon Footprint
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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Local entrepreneur Joe Davis is the creator of the Community Carbon Exchange, or CCX. Davis says carbon-saving actions like carpooling and walking,...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2017
  • Length: 08:55
Teens Sue U.S. Gov’t over Climate Change
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Philip Gregory
What do a 13 year old in Louisiana, a 14 year old in Oregon and a 16 year old in Hawaii all have in common besides possibly the number of hours a d...

Bought by WMUU-LP, Yellowstone Public Radio, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 22, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 3
“Do you believe in climate change and do you think that it is caused by us?”
From: WFHB
Series: Voices in the Street
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This week's edition asks Bloomington residents if they believe the scientific consensus on climate change.

  • Added: Feb 16, 2017
  • Length: 04:54
Episode 10: Big Fish, Big Science
From: David Levin
Series: The Loop: Stories from the Gulf
Caption: Biochemist Dana Wetzel dissects a fish exposed to oil in the lab., Credit: David Levin
Scientists at the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida, are leading a new experiment that will help uncover the effects of oil spills on fis...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 08:20
Episode 9: Mapping Oil Spills by Satellite
From: David Levin
Series: The Loop: Stories from the Gulf
Caption: Chuanmin Hu, an optical oceanographer at USF, points to a map of the Ixtoc-1 spill made from archival satellite data.
The 1979 Ixtoc-1 oil spill spewed millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, but has since been largely forgotten. More than 35 years late...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 09:50
Trump 'priority list' includes big construction projects in Great Lakes
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: The Peace Bridge connects Buffalo, New York to Fort Erie, Ontario in Canada, Credit: WBFO file photo
A leaked list of infrastructure priorities for the Trump administration includes some big projects for the Great Lakes region.

Bought by WMUK, WXXI Rochester, WKSU, WCMU Michigan, and WBFO


  • Added: Jan 25, 2017
  • Length: 01:17
  • Purchases: 5
Workshops Bring Activists from Standing Rock to Bloomington
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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During Friday’s “Inaugurate the Revolution” event in downtown Bloomington, residents packed into the Monroe County Public Library to hear from Nati...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2017
  • Length: 08:05
Got pollution? Canadian city puts it in giant box
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: John Gee with Environment and Climate Change Canada stands on a platform overlooking the Randle Reef restoration project., Credit: Veronica Volk
Imagine a huge steel box – whose lid is 10 football fields across. It's being built in Hamilton's harbor on the western end of Lake Ontario. It’s d...

Bought by WMUK, WRVO Public Media, North Country Public Radio, WLPR , WCPN and more


  • Added: Jan 23, 2017
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 8
Great Lakes shipping slumped in 2016
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: The SS Calumet on the Cuyahoga River, Credit: Elizabeth Miller
The Welland Canal closed in December and the Soo Locks will close January 15, which marks the end of shipping season for most vessels on the Great ...

Bought by North Country Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, WCPN, and WBFO


  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: :49
  • Purchases: 4
Homeowners fear damage from new Lake Ontario regulations
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: In 1973 waves crashed over Zieres' family's breakwall and flooded their home., Credit: Provided
INTRO: There’s a simmering controversy on the northern border of the United States -- it’s all about water. For the first time in over fifty years,...

Bought by WRVO Public Media, WCPN, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, North Country Public Radio, and WBFO


  • Added: Jan 06, 2017
  • Length: 04:46
  • Purchases: 5
Great Lakes pollutant lurks in your laundry pile
From: Great Lakes Today
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The United States and Canada are moving to ban microbeads -- the tiny plastic bits in toothpaste and facewash that are big water polluters. Now sci...

Bought by WKSU, North Country Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, WCPN and more


  • Added: Dec 29, 2016
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 7
EcoReport Feature - Part One of Our Interview with Dana Recklehoff, Naturalist at Patoka Lake
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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In today's EcoReport feature, we bring you part one of Julianna Dailey's interview with Dana Recklehoff, Naturalist at Patoka Lake in southern Indi...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2016
  • Length: 09:28
EcoReport - December 29, 2016
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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EcoReport is a weekly program providing independent media coverage of environmental and ecological issues with a focus on local, state and regional...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2016
  • Length: 32:04