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The Outlaw Ocean, Part One
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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The outlaw ocean, a space apart, hidden from view, a place of rampant criminality and exploitation. This week on World Ocean Radio we offer part on...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2019
  • Length: 05:07
190906: How Pro Sports Can Be a Player in Climate, 9/6/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Americans spend $56 billion attending sporting events each year — but at what cost to the climate? From stadiums packed with energetic fans to food...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
2019-09-06 How Pro Sports Can Be a Player in Climate
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Americans spend $56 billion attending sporting events each year — but at what cost to the climate? From stadiums packed with energetic fans to foo...

Bought by WJCT, KTSW 89.9, MPR News Stations, WMUU-LP, Maine Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
Mount Hope Molybdenum mine water quality control permit to be reconsidered
From: Brian Bahouth
Series: The Wild Hare
Caption: 3D rendering of Mt. Hope NV, Credit: Brian Bahouth
According to the General Moly mining corporation website, Mount Hope, Nevada is “one of the largest and highest grade primary molybdenum deposits i...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 01, 2019
  • Length: 19:57
  • Purchases: 1
2019-08-09 Land of Dreams and Drought
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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In his new book The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California, author Mark Arax reveals the tumultuous history behind the myth of abund...

Bought by WJCT, WMUU-LP, WLPR , KFCF FM, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Aug 07, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 7
190705: Winners and Losers, 7/5/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The new climate reality means that even those living on a hill will be affected by flooding in the valley, and those living in the North will be af...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
2019-05-31 If You Won't, We Will: Youth Action on Climate
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Four years ago, 21 student plaintiffs sued the U.S. government for violating their constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property by failing ...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, WLPR , WDSE, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: May 30, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 8
Special Report: Whose Economy Is It? Ours
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Our city's economy – what is it for? New York's has been very good at piling up profits and building tall buildings. But all that private profit ha...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: May 28, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
190517: Republicans and a Democrat on Climate, 5/17/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The Green New Deal is shaking up climate politics in Washington. The resolution’s ambitious clean energy goals are championed by several leading De...

  • Added: May 16, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
2019-05-03 How Climate Broke California’s Biggest Utility
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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PG&E has had a bad few years. A series of record-breaking wildfires culminating with 2018’s devastating Camp Fire propelled the California utility ...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, WMUU-LP, KFCF FM, WLPR and more


  • Added: May 02, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 8
Presenting: Broken Ground
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Picture taken after coal sludge spill from TVA coal-fired power plant in Kingston, TN December 2008
This week we’re debuting a new podcast series called Broken Ground, produced by the Southern Environmental Law Center and hosted by Claudine Ebeid ...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, KXCV, WRGY, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2019
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 10
Presenting: Broken Ground
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Picture taken after coal sludge spill from TVA coal-fired power plant in Kingston, TN December 2008
This week we’re debuting a new podcast series called Broken Ground, produced by the Southern Environmental Law Center and hosted by Claudine Ebeid ...

Bought by WJCT, WUGA (part of GPB), Kansas Public Radio, KRDP, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 10
2019-04-19 Fighting Fossil Fuels All the Way to Prison
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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How far would you go to make your voice heard on climate change? College student Tim DeChristopher disrupted an auction for oil and gas leases - an...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, NPR Now, KVMR, WDSE and more


  • Added: Apr 16, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 7
Crosstown Traffic: The Preven Report
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Joshua and Eric Preven
They say the squeaky wheel gets the grease. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak to two brothers who are trying to make a little noise for the i...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
190308: If Global Warming Exists, Why is it so Cold Outside?, 3/8/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The last five years have been the hottest on record globally. But this past winter, plunging temperatures, snowstorms and torrential rains througho...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
2019-03-08 If Global Warming Exists, Why is it so Cold Outside?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The last five years have been the hottest on record globally. But this past winter, plunging temperatures, snowstorms and torrential rains througho...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, KUHF, KFCF FM, NPR Now and more


  • Added: Mar 05, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 11
2019-02-10 Katharine Hayhoe: Why We Need to Talk About Climate Change
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Katharine Hayhoe, recipient of the 2018 Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Science Communication
Many of us find it daunting to talk with our neighbors, colleagues and family members about climate change. But climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe ...

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  • Added: Feb 07, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 8
2019-02-03 How Some Countries Are Solving Climate Change
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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When it comes to cutting emissions, there are many paths to success. Sweden, France, South Korea, and Ontario have all taken steps to replace fossi...

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  • Added: Jan 31, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 14
2019-01-13 The Hidden Health Hazards of Climate Change
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Climate change isn’t just an environmental problem – it’s also a health hazard. Air pollution and changing weather patterns give rise to heat-relat...

Bought by WJCT, KICI Iowa City, KPIP-LP, KMXT, KWIT and more


  • Added: Jan 07, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 9
2018-12-30 Going Carbon Negative
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The math is clear: lowering greenhouse gas emissions is not enough to keep the earth below 1.5 degrees Celsius of post-industrial warming. The late...

Bought by WJCT, KBBI Alaska, KVMR, Gallatin Valley Community Radio, WKAR and more


  • Added: Dec 27, 2018
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 11
2018-12-23 The Big Climate Stories of 2018
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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We’re making a list (and checking it twice) of 2018’s biggest climate stories, with the help of Vox reporter David Roberts. Roberts noted that whil...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, NPR Now, and Boise State Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 4
2018-12-16 Mind Over Chatter: Exploring Climate Psychology
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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We all know about the environmental and physical effects of climate change. But what about its impact on our mental health? Therapists report that ...

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  • Added: Dec 12, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 6
2018-12-09 Fire and Water: A Year of Climate Conversations
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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From fires and floods to hurricanes and hot temperatures, 2018 put climate on the front page in ways it hadn’t been before. Yet amidst the disrupti...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, WXXI Rochester, WKAR, NPR Now and more


  • Added: Dec 06, 2018
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 11
2018-11-11 Saudi America
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Production of oil and gas in the U.S. has surged to levels unthinkable a decade ago due to the revolution in hydraulic fracturing, which has helped...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, KWIT, WLPR , KFOI Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
All Creatures Great and Small: The Vanishing Vaquita
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Brooke Bessesen
How splendid would it be if humans could somehow find a way to truly co-exist with the rest of the planet’s creatures? This week on Sea Change Radi...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2018
  • Length: 29:00