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Season 1, Episode 42 - 'Snowfall' feat Dr Andrew Schwartz
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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The study of snowfall and snowpack, and its importance in our lives.

Bought by WOJB


  • Added: May 19, 2024
  • Length: 58:02
  • Purchases: 1
Season 1, Episode 34 - 'Ecological Civilization' feat Dr Philip Clayton
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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"What gives me hope is watching the sparkle in the eye of a child, a young mother, a middle-aged business person, or an elderly person when they im...

Bought by WOJB


  • Added: Apr 22, 2024
  • Length: 58:02
  • Purchases: 1
Season 1, Episode 23 - 'Rainforest Trust' feat James Deutsch
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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A bottom up solution for saving rainforests worldwide.

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB


  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:34
  • Purchases: 2
The Promise and Peril of Geoengineering
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Image of Arctic Ice, Credit: Pink floyd88 a, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
In recent years, scientists have begun testing geoengineering technologies to slow down or even stop global warming. But, is geoengineering safe? A...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 13
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Long Covid -- a complex ailment driving lots of people down. Moms, babies and bacteria -- the relationship starts before you’re born, then you’re c...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2023
  • Length: 57:27
To Hell And Back
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
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Jess investigates what connects giant salamanders, community organizing, and fracking via a conversation with journalist Annie Roth and biologist J...

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
Feedback Loops: Climate Change's Most Critical Dynamic - EcoJustice Radio
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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On this show we sit down with the creators of the five-part documentary series, “Climate Emergency: Feedback Loops.” Narrated by Richard Gere, this...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
Spectrum 11/13/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Your breath smells like emotional tension - Follow us into a darkened German cinema to talk about how the stuff we breathe...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Nov 14, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
2017-10-29 Deep Dive Into the Arctic
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Greg Dalton, Executive Producer and Host
On the front lines of climate change, the Inuit of the high Arctic - together with scientists, educators and policymakers – are fighting a battle f...

Bought by KBBI Alaska, KUHF, NPR Now, and KWIT


  • Added: Oct 26, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Sound Ecology: Arcata Marsh
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An audio postcard highlighting the city of Arcata's Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary that also functions as an innovative wastewater treatment facility.

Bought by KZYX, WNED Buffalo, and Radio Newark


  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 3
Sound Ecology: Martens and Fishers
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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This segment of Sound Ecology highlights two small mammalian predators of the Pacific Northwest: the marten and the fisher.

Bought by WNED Buffalo and Radio Newark


  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 01:57
  • Purchases: 2
Sound Ecology: Allen's Hummingbird
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An audio postcard highlighting the amazing migration of Allen's Hummingbirds along the pacific flyway. Best aired late winter through spring and su...

Bought by WNED Buffalo and Radio Newark


  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 2
Sound Ecology: Manzanitas
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An audio postcard highlighting the spectacular diversity and adaptability of manzanitas

Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jul 15, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 3
Sound Ecology: Eelgrass
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An audio postcard highlighting the importance of eelgrass to ecosystem health.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jul 15, 2016
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
Sound Ecology: Phenology
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An audio postcard exploring seasonal changes and timing of wildlife events, a field called phenology.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jul 15, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 3
Sound Ecology: Macrofungi
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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Mycologist Terry Henkel discusses the diversity of fungi, loosely called mushrooms, and their importance to ecosystem health and the Klamath bioreg...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jul 15, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 3
Sound Ecology: Cetaceans
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An audio postcard highlighting the wide variety of whales, porpoises and dolphins that inhabit the waters along northern California and southern Or...

Bought by KLCC, WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 4
Sound Ecology: Coho Salmon
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An audio postcard highlighting Coho Salmon - their spawning habitat and behavior and their specialized adaptation for long-term survival.

Bought by KZYX, WNED Buffalo, and Radio Newark


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 3
Impact of Automated Transportation
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Maglev - Hi-speed transportation
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Back in 1958 Popular Science published an article about General Motor’s plan to build self-driving cars guided by electrical cables in roadways. Gi...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
32: 52 Hz (Extended cut)
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
Caption: Pinball the Humpback whale, Credit: Craig Shank
52 Hz is the name given to a mysterious whale that vocalizes at a different frequency than other whales. Some refer to him as "The World's Lonelies...

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Jul 18, 2013
  • Length: 15:17
  • Purchases: 1
Poisoned Water, Fossil Fuels
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Still from the film 'Burning the Future: Coal in America' , Credit: http://www.burningthefuture.org
The endless search for fossil fuels is polluting our waterways, and our water supplies. The fight to protect clean drinking water is motivating Ame...

Bought by WZEN.org


  • Added: May 11, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Poisoned Water, Fossil Fuels
From: Making Contact
Caption: Still from the film 'Burning the Future: Coal in America', Credit: http://www.burningthefuture.org
The endless search for fossil fuels is polluting our waterways, and our water supplies. The fight to protect clean drinking water is motivating Ame...

Bought by WUAL


  • Added: May 11, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Cities Underwater: Venice and New Orleans Seek Solutions
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Two historic jewels: New Orleans & Venice, Italy are struggling to plan for sea level rise, in cities that already routinely flood because of quest...

Bought by WZEN.org and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 19, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
HEALing Energy: Engineer aims for a global renewable energy plan by 2012
From: SQRadio
Caption: Mark Jacobson, Credit: Sheri Quinn
Stanford University Engineer Mark Z. Jacobson is trying to convince the world that his energy plan based soley on renwables: wind, water, and solar...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 31:08
Single Male with Strong Roots Searching For Fertile Ground to Plant Seed and Grow Together
From: SQRadio
Caption: Pando, Credit: Sheri Quinn
The Pando Aspen is a clonal colony of a single male Quaking Aspen (populus tremuloides) also known as the trembling giant because of its elliptical...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2011
  • Length: 27:33