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John Fleck: Drought Dilemmas and the Colorado River
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: John Fleck
Years of extreme drought have left the Colorado River at alarmingly low levels. Earlier this month, water management experts testified in front of ...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
The Promise of Psychedelic Therapy
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Oli Mittermaier
Psychologist and pop culture icon of the 1960s, Timothy Leary, famously instructed San Francisco hippies to take psychedelic drugs in order to “tur...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Neel Dhanesha: Nurdle Hurdles
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Neel Dhanesha
What is a nurdle, you ask? Is it the latest variation on the popular New York Times puzzle, Wordle? No, not quite. Nurdles are the tiny little petr...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 25, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
William Moomaw: Climate Change Assessments
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: William Moomaw
“It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land. The scale of recent changes are unprecedented over many centurie...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 18, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
David v. Goliath: Danna Smith + Leo Woodberry v. Big Conservation
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Danna Smith
With around a billion dollars in annual revenue, The Nature Conservancy is the largest organization of its kind in America. Their stated mission is...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Hog Wild: Susanne Rust on the Feral Pig Problem
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Susanne Rust
You may not have seen them running through your yard, but just wait. Feral pigs are everywhere and they’re a growing problem. This week on Sea Chan...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Health Care’s Climate Change Contradiction
From: Tradeoffs
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The U.S. health care system is responsible for 8.5% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. We discuss how health care contributes to climate ch...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 24, 2022
  • Length: 15:11
  • Purchases: 1
Adam Sobel: A Climate Science Midlife Crisis
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Adam Sobel
Imagine you go to graduate school for a bunch of years, conscientiously studying the nuanced interactions of the variables that underlie the globe'...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Eric Lebel: Cooking With Gas?
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Eric Lebel
When momentum starts to build, people like to exclaim, “Now we’re cooking with gas!” Well, a recent study out of Stanford University might have us ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 08, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Andrea Copping: The Latest on Marine Energy Projects
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Andrea Copping
We hear a lot about solar and wind power, but a renewable source of clean energy that continues to be largely untapped is the ocean. According to t...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Daniel Oberhaus: Our Super-Charged Future (re-broadcast)
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Daniel Oberhaus
New iterations of the smartphone often focus on bells, whistles and other fancy features, when what we all really want for our devices are batterie...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jan 04, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Last Straw: Mark Marinozzi + Romain Troublé (re-broadcast)
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Romain Trouble
The next time you sip on a drink from a straw, you may want to think twice because humans are producing an inordinate amount of plastic waste on st...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
John Englander: Moving To Higher Ground
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: John Englander
Summer is nearly upon us. The next time you’re at the beach, gazing upon the blue horizon, take a moment to contemplate the depths of the sea, and ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Tim Dickinson of Rolling Stone: Anti-Vaxxer Factor
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Tim Dickinson
For many of us, the increasing availability of Covid vaccinations glows brightly, a light at the end of what has been a long and dreary tunnel. For...

Bought by KWMR and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 02, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
631-Greg's Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
My Catalina Survey Teammate Greg Leonard was asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he spotted a fuzzy object wit...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KICI Iowa City, WTIP and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Alex Gilbert on the Texas Blackouts
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Alex Gilbert
All eyes have been on the Lone Star State recently, watching the grim and undeniable impact of climate change on a population completely unprepared...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Holy Smoke! Air Quality Meteorologist Scott Landes
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Scott Landes
With record-setting wildfires blanketing large swaths of the Western United States in smoke, we thought it appropriate to speak to someone who know...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 08, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
605-Monsoon Nights
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: A lightning bolt strikes in the western part of the city, part of the second of two bands of monsoon storms to roll over the area, Tucson, Ariz., August 28, 2019., Credit: Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star
Every year the Monsoon summer rains come to the American southwest in July and August. After the threat of wild fires has been rained out, monsoo...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, WTIP and more


  • Added: Aug 28, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
602-Solar Flares
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Some stars can have flares which can cause them to more than double in brightness in a few minutes. Fortunately our Sun does not do that and the Ea...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, WTIP and more


  • Added: Aug 07, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
600-Big and Close
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groeller was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Pegasus with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Ariz...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Simply Beautiful, WLPR , WTIP and more


  • Added: Jul 24, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Paul Wheaton Pt. I: Home Heating Solutions
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Paul Wheaton
Many of us are spending a whole lot more time at home these days, and are consequently knee-deep in a bunch of home improvement projects. A great a...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Chinese Air Quality + Ekoru Search Engine
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Liz Kimbrough
Looking for some good news as we enter yet another week of sheltering-in-place? Perhaps you feel like doing a Google search to discover an upside t...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
580-Kacper's Debut
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On his first night of solo observing with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Kacper Wierzchos discovere...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WLPR and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
572-David's Fireball
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Recently, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin's backyard all sky camera in Tucson, Arizona recorded a brilliant fireball meteor which took...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jan 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Bob Berwyn: Water In The West
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Bob Berwyn
As we embark upon a new decade, many of us are contemplating ongoing environmental challenges and what may be in store for the earth in the decade ...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2020
  • Length: 29:00