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In our continuing coverage of the ongoing climate catastrophe, we often ask what we can learn from the experiences of people living on its frontlin...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, WNYE, and KWMR


  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Climate change isn’t looming, it’s here. We have crossed what some call the change horizon. Can it also be a liberation horizon? “There’s beautifu...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Radio Catskill, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Today on the show, the Endangered Species Act became law 50 years ago. Since then, hundreds of species have been put under its protection. Wyoming ...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2023
  • Length: 50:22
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The Earth's temperature is rising and time is running out to change direction according to the IPCC. But veteran organizer/strategist Ben Jealous (...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: Apr 19, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
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We feature a lecture by Mike Davis about his book Planet of Slums, which investigates the increasing inequality of the urban world. According to th...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
Caption: Risk in the North Reach, Credit: Kandace Manning
A tale about how Portland, Oregon abused and degraded the river that runs through it, and the current campaign to reclaim this stretch of river as ...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2023
  • Length: 54:05
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Sheri McWhirter talks with environmental authors Jerry Dennis and Dave Dempsey.

Bought by Michigan Radio and WKAR


  • Added: Oct 10, 2022
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on World Ocean Radio we're offering two extremely important ocean examples where the opposition of sovereignty and commonality collide. T...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2022
  • Length: 05:21
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Real estate development conjures up images of gentrification with sleek buildings and polished store fronts often built under the guise of urban re...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN, and WNYE


  • Added: Feb 09, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Water is essential for life, and throughout history we have sought to control and make use of it. As Giulio Boccaletti explores in his new book, Wa...

Bought by KUHF, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WMUU-LP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Maine Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
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Water is essential for life, and throughout history we have sought to control and make use of it. As Giulio Boccaletti explores in his new book, Wa...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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On the last leg of a long journey, Water faces a final foe: Aging infrastructure.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 51:52
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Topic 1: What We Learned From the Crack Crisis in America. Topic 2: The Future is Peat

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KQRU FM LP, KOWS, and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 17, 2020
  • Length: 51:38
  • Purchases: 4
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When veterans retire from the military—whether voluntarily or from injury—it can be a difficult transition. Gone is the camaraderie that gave their...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and KVNF


  • Added: May 07, 2020
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 2
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California has long led the country in environmental action. It established strong automobile emission standards; it preserved fragile lands from d...

Bought by WJCT, WMUU-LP, WFHB, KBBI Alaska, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and more


  • Added: Nov 07, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
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California has long led the country in environmental action. It established strong automobile emission standards; it preserved fragile lands from d...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
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As climate disinformation campaigns ramped up in the 1990s, oil companies and their PR firms exploited weaknesses in the U.S. media system and prop...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2019
  • Length: 17:38
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In the late 1980s and early 1990s, fossil fuel companies shifted their approach on global warming.

Bought by Radio Catskill


  • Added: Jan 21, 2019
  • Length: 17:56
  • Purchases: 1
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It's the 1970s and Exxon Research and Development wants to be the "Bell Labs of Energy."

  • Added: Jan 21, 2019
  • Length: 19:18
Caption: The Crevasse, viewed from the levee., Credit:  The Historic New Orleans Collection
For the next few episodes TriPod dives into the city’s messy relationship with water through a new series called NOLA vs. Nature. First up: a look ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 11:45
  • Purchases: 1
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Radio Curious discusses whales and the history of whale hunting with Michael Dyer, senior historian at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in New Bedfor...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
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Aug. 25 marked the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service. WTIP's Dick Swanson spoke with Professor Michael Tarrant, who believes the parks...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2016
  • Length: 21:42
Caption: Glensheen beach
When you visit Glensheen, you get a glimpse into the past, of life at the turn of the last century. But this is not just a time-capsule museum, th...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Jun 17, 2015
  • Length: 04:25
  • Purchases: 1
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During the last 150 years, most of Minnesota’s native prairies have been destroyed—converted into farmland for crops like corn and soybeans. But a ...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 05:55
  • Purchases: 1
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Nights are getting brighter and most of us no longer experience true darkness.

Bought by WJCT, KVSC, KWMR, KCPW Salt Lake City, KENW and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 6