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This 90-second short feature briefly explores whether the often frantic reporting on a severe weather event mirrored the reality of those who exper...
- Added: Aug 28, 2011
- Length: 01:24
Exploring the scientific debate over the risk of another major earthquake along the New Madrid fault system in the Midwest.
- Added: Aug 28, 2011
- Length: 04:36
Until very recently Philadelphians recycled a dismal five-percent of their trash. But all that began to change a few years ago when the city steppe...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WTIP
- Added: Aug 04, 2011
- Length: 04:21
- Purchases: 2
On the 22nd of July 2011, witnessed by Africa’s top elephant conservationists, the Kenya Government burned 5 tons of ivory worth 15 million dollars...
- Added: Jul 26, 2011
- Length: 03:08
"The Boom" is a collection of Pinedale, Wyoming residents' reactions to the recent natural gas boom in surrounding Sublette County. Townsfolk refle...
- Added: Jul 08, 2011
- Length: 05:21
How a small community of gold miners in the Colombian jungle is fighting to turn a toxic industry into a green and global market.
- Added: Jul 07, 2011
- Length: 34:24
Cleanup is continuing along the Yellowstone River in south-east Montana where an estimated 42,000 gallons of crude oil spewed from a burst ExxonMob...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jul 05, 2011
- Length: 03:24
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jul 01, 2011
- Length: 29:36
The gargantuan Three Gorges Dam over the Yangtze River in China is the largest hydroelectric project in the world and is a poster child for China's...
- Added: Jun 22, 2011
- Length: 02:00
Biologists estimate thousands of pronghorn antelope died in Montana over the long, harsh winter...thousands more are stranded at the Fort Peck Rese...
- Added: Jun 10, 2011
- Length: 04:11
Japan's recent tsunami and nuclear disaster have devastated its fishing industry. Fish are at the heart of Japanese culture, yet worldwide stocks o...
- Added: Apr 29, 2011
- Length: 02:00
From: Claudia Cragg
THIS IS AN UPDATE dated 1 April 2011 from Dr. Helen Caldicott, physician, paediatrician, and author of 'Nuclear Is Not The Answer' on the current ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Apr 01, 2011
- Length: 13:09
- Purchases: 1
Colette Lespinasse discusses pre-existing governance and human rights issues in disaster-stricken Haiti. She addresses the recent earthquake and ch...
- Added: Mar 01, 2011
- Length: 27:57
The global circulation of goods is a major source of both prosperity and carbon emissions. This short video on ethics asks: Can trade be regulated ...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Feb 28, 2011
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Exploring the appeal and annoyances of backyard chickens as some Denver residents push for an initiative to change the city's current hen laws.
- Added: Feb 21, 2011
- Length: 05:09
They say death, like taxes, is one of the few certain things in life. But the way that culture deals with death is not a static institution. In New...
- Added: Jan 24, 2011
- Length: 04:17
Coral reefs are the "canary in the coal mine" for the oceans, and they are not doing well.
- Added: Dec 13, 2010
- Length: 01:59
In this program recorded on site in northeastern Pennsylvania, we follow the Marcellus Shale trail and find the fracturing of the bedrock under thi...
- Added: Nov 09, 2010
- Length: 55:30
- Purchases: 2
A fungal disease has been destroying bat colonies in the northeastern United States and is now spreading south and west across the country. What is...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Nov 05, 2010
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
As worldwide population increases and the world gets hotter, water shortages are expected worldwide, including in the US.
- Added: Sep 20, 2010
- Length: 01:59
Revised edition. An international scientific study concludes that the negative effects of climate chanage will be irreversible for at least 1000 ye...
Bought by WMPG
- Added: Sep 20, 2010
- Length: 03:58
- Purchases: 1
Scientists believe the earth is in the midst of the 6th mass extinction of species now, due to human-induced causes.
- Added: Sep 15, 2010
- Length: 02:00
Revised piece. Too much carbon is flooding the ocean with carbolic acid, with devestating effects on life in the sea.
- Added: Sep 15, 2010
- Length: 01:58
A scientific conference in London, England studied the geologic impacts of climate change by reviewing the records of previous warming periods. It...
- Added: Sep 15, 2010
- Length: 02:00
In New York City people are swimming in pools made out of dumpsters, right on Park Avenue!
Bought by PRX Remix and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Aug 19, 2010
- Length: 02:31
- Purchases: 2
