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Dr. Katherine Loflin joined WTIP's Ann Possis recently to talk about her work in "placemaking". She advises elected officials, planners, businesspe...

  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 16:11
Caption: Fishing guides spend their days reading the water, seeing fish., Credit: Susan Cook
The strident opponents of a rapid, unregulated re-introduction of alewives to the St. Croix believe that at one important juncture in the river, ...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2013
  • Length: 04:40
Caption: David Suzuki
Author, radio host, and scientist David Suzuki has spent a lifetime working to protect the environment. But he says that work is failing, and a pa...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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The plight of approximately 4000 Montana Buffalo, related to the tens of millions of buffalo who roamed North America as recently as 160 years ago,...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
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Filmmaker Mark Lewis on challenging himself, glamorizing amphibians, and the human folly of trying to outsmart Mother Nature.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2012
  • Length: 19:17
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss a system which does on occasion fail us, if we don't fail it first; and he'll a...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2012
  • Length: 05:37
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New methods of drilling for natural gas and oil have opened up previously unreachable resources deep below the Earth’s surface in Ohio. Depending o...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2012
  • Length: 58:44
Caption: The Ocean, Our Future, Credit: Mario Soares, Independent World Commission on the Future of the Oceans
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will suggest that we must move beyond the narrow perception of the ocean as a natural system...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2012
  • Length: 05:38
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ARAPAHOE COUNTRY, Colo. - Tents and makeshift stores selling holidays goods have popped up throughout Colorado in the past few weeks leading up to ...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:45
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CASPER, Wyo. - A federal study of the use of silica in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in oil and gas fields found that workers are sometimes ov...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2012
  • Length: 02:07
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CAPE HATTERAS, N.C. - Scientists say the waters are rising fast off the coast of North Carolina as a result of climate change. A new report publish...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:53
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FORT COLLINS, Colo. - Triple-digit record temperatures, wind, and extreme low humidity combined to spark five new wildfires in Colorado this weeken...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2012
  • Length: 01:56
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OLYMPIA, Wash. - Scores of Peninsula business owners are joining local farmers, clergy and elected officials in applauding a measure introduced Thu...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2012
  • Length: 02:01
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INDIANAPOLIS - A letter is going out to Indiana's gubernatorial candidates - Democrat John Gregg and Republican Mike Pence - urging them to get on ...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2012
  • Length: 01:50
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LONGMONT, Colo. - Grassroots organizations in Colorado are fighting the use of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in residential areas. They're hop...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2012
  • Length: 01:29
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CONCORD, N.H. - The risks to water and wildlife if tar sands from Alberta are sent through an existing, aging pipeline across Vermont, New Hampshir...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2012
  • Length: 01:34
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New York, NY - The Cuomo administration appears to have a new "fracking plan" that would place geographic limitations on shale gas drilling in New ...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2012
  • Length: 01:55
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RALEIGH, N.C. - Fracking is on the fast track in North Carolina. A state Senate bill already has passed, and now the House, after making some chan...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2012
  • Length: 01:37
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FORT COLLINS, Colo. - The fast-moving High Park Fire sent a plume of choking smoke over the Front Range urban corridor on Tuesday morning - the mos...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2012
  • Length: 01:52
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When the state begins auctioning off cap-and-trade revenues next year, a new report suggests those dollars be put into California's clean-energy ec...

  • Added: May 31, 2012
  • Length: 01:29
Caption: A resident of Chicago's 49th Ward., Credit: Melissa Beck
A timely one-hour special, hosted by NPR's Scott Simon, that tells stories of American democracy at the local level. We listen in as people wrestle...

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  • Added: May 30, 2012
  • Length: 54:01
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LIVINGSTON, Mont. - Adjacent public lands, and how they're managed, provide insight into the economic health and well-being of rural counties in Mo...

  • Added: May 29, 2012
  • Length: 01:51
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PARK RAPIDS, Minn. – Communities in Central Minnesota face frequent exposure to multiple pesticides in the air they breathe, according to a new rep...

  • Added: May 18, 2012
  • Length: 01:28
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DENVER - Una nueva encuesta de la organización Small Business Majority (Mayoría de Empresas Pequeñas) reporta que los propietarios de negocios de C...

  • Added: May 17, 2012
  • Length: 01:54
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Farmer Steve Mello has put down roots in “The Delta” in central California. But climate change is threatening the levees which protect Delta farms....

  • Added: May 04, 2012
  • Length: 29:01