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Are white sharks doing something different this year? Or are we?
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: A white shark (commonly referred to as a great white shark)., Credit: "GREAT WHITE SHARK - CAL RIPFIN" BY GEORGE PROBST, CC LICENSE, RESIZED AND RECROPPED
White sharks are uncommon — some research shows there could be fewer than 500 along our coast. Scientists are pretty sure that no one has ever reco...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WABE


  • Added: Jan 15, 2016
  • Length: 08:16
  • Purchases: 2
Rat People of New York
From: Karen Robins
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Animals are easy to love - most of them. But it takes a special breed of human to fall for one particular type animal.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2016
  • Length: 08:18
After a flood, solving the mystery of water
From: Jenny Chen
Caption: 2013 flood in Estes Park, Credit: Town of Estes Park
Recent floods in Texas and Oklahoma cost the country over $3 billion in economic losses. In some areas of the country, floods are growing in intens...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 23, 2015
  • Length: 08:45
  • Purchases: 1
Rodney Learns to Fly
From: Ari Daniel
Caption: Mr. Hoots is a Eurasian eagle owl, and one of Rodney Stotts' favorite raptors., Credit: Ari Daniel
Rodney grew up selling dope and guns. But he's always loved caring for birds. The drugs landed him in jail. The birds helped set him free.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, The Allegheny Front: Reporting on the Environment, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 20, 2015
  • Length: 11:23
  • Purchases: 4
Owning The Clouds
From: Steven Jackson
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Cloud seeding -- intervening in clouds to squeeze out precipitation -- is done all over the world. But it's not an exact science; we still have muc...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, The Allegheny Front: Reporting on the Environment, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 20, 2015
  • Length: 09:38
  • Purchases: 3
Buds on the Tracks: Prehistoric Plants Thrive in D.C.'s Subway
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Unbeknownst to most commuters, ferns grow at the Van Ness-UDC Metro station in Washington, D.C.., Credit: Andy Baldwin
What's the perfect environment for a fern species dating back 65 million years? Look no further than Washington, D.C.'s subway system.

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Oct 26, 2015
  • Length: 05:52
  • Purchases: 1
The hidden afterlife of a sperm whale skeleton
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: A dead sperm whale in Pacifica's Mori Point, Credit: Hannah Kingsley-Ma
Back in April, a 48 foot-long sperm whale was found on a beach in Pacifica called Mori Point. A lot of people had gathered around the whale to bear...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Sep 18, 2015
  • Length: 08:29
  • Purchases: 1
Good vibrations! These bugs do their sexting via plant stem
From: Veronique LaCapra
Caption: Twomarked treehoppers, Credit: Kasey Fowler-Finn, Saint Louis University
Most insects communicate in a way that we can’t hear. A scientist at Saint Louis University is using a laser to eavesdrop on one insect’s “conversa...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2015
  • Length: 05:38
Episode 1: Living with the Deer
From: Willow Belden
Series: Out There
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Wyoming naturalist joins game herd, 'becomes' a mule deer

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 21:04
At a ranch in Cazadero, it's sheep, spirituality, and science
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - The Spiritual Edge
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Three hours north of San Francisco, just east of the ocean, rise the steep, green hills of Cazadero. It’s an idyllic setting: open space with farms...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2015
  • Length: 07:57
Monarch butterflies and the Mona Lisa
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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“There's one on the ground there. Are there two? No way! Are they mating?” I turn to ask longtime monarch sanctuary volunteer, Barb Thomas. We hove...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Jul 20, 2015
  • Length: 08:22
  • Purchases: 1
Virginia’s Restless Archipelago Part 3
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Colony of American oyster catchers on a lesser Barrier Island., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Oyster Virginia is an old fishing village on the seaside of the Easter Shore. On the road in there are old dead rises, some half submerged in the s...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2015
  • Length: 26:36
Science fiction writer Paolo Bacigalupi & "The Water Knife"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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This Paonia, Colorado National Book Award finalist describes a thriller version of possible future water wars in the American Southwest. Is this an...

Bought by KRZA, Radio Newark, and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 04, 2015
  • Length: 09:57
  • Purchases: 3
Island Stories: Virginia's Restless Archipelago, Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: Barry Truitt., Credit: Charles McGuigan
This is the fastest moving real estate on the entire East Coast, and behind the sandy shores of these Virginia Barrier Islands is the purest ocean...

  • Added: May 29, 2015
  • Length: 27:16
How a warming Arctic affects Yellowstone grizzlies
From: gretchen king
Caption: A bear in Yellowstone National Park in April 2013, Credit: . Jim Peaco, National Park Service
For some bears, weird spring weather was a wake-up call. For humans, not so much.

  • Added: May 15, 2015
  • Length: 08:47
LOVE THY NATURE -- Sylvie Rokab Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Sylvie Rokab, San Francisco, CA 4/14/15, Credit: Andrea Chase
Sylvie Rokab talks unexpected relatives, the hidden dangers of city life, and dancing with Liam Neeson.

  • Added: Apr 16, 2015
  • Length: 20:50
Dragons of Inaction Feature
From: With Good Reason
Series: Earth Day Specials
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Today, about half of all Americans believe in human-caused climate change, and yet, few Americans modify their behaviors in any serious ways. Allis...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KCMJ Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KKRN, WEZU and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2015
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 6
Cardinal Accents Feature
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Birds are making adjustments to live with increasing levels of human-generated noise. One Virginia scholar says that some city-dwelling birds are ...

Bought by KENW, WABE, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, KPVL and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2015
  • Length: 03:52
  • Purchases: 6
Does single-stream recycling really work? Yes! And no
From: Veronique LaCapra
Caption: Trucks dump their loads of single-stream recycling on the "tip floor" at Resource Management's Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) in Earth City, Mo., Credit: Véronique LaCapra
If you recycle at home, chances are you take advantage of a system called “single-stream” recycling: you mix all your bottles, newspapers, cans and...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2015
  • Length: 03:33
A Conversation on Crystal Healing with The Founder of The Center For Creative Healing, Maria Celeste Pt.1
From: Alix Litwack
Series: Another Day Of Living; Join the Conversation!
Caption: Another Day of Living , Credit: graphics by Scott Spitz
Join our conversation with Maria Celeste as she shares her battle with cancer and discovery of the Crystal's healing power. Founder and owner of Th...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
Coast Report
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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If we gave our coastlines an environmental report card, what grade should they get?

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Health Factors Threaten Gorillas – But Why?
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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What's a significant threat to the survival of captive gorillas? Surprisingly it's heart disease.

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Coal Gasification
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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It's no news flash that, over the years, one of the dirtiest sources of energy has been coal; in fact, it's among the top contributors to carbon di...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Recipe For Plastic Decomposition
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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It's good to know that tomorrow's scientists are solving environmental problems today. Meet Daniel Burd from Waterloo, Canada. Daniel's interested ...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Brighter Bulbs
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2015 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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What do you get when you cross folk art with photonic technology? A very bright idea.

Bought by KSKQ and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2

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