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Jess talks with UCLA climate scientist and Weather West blogger Dr. Daniel Swain about this summer of extremes.

  • Added: Sep 05, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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What's wrong with dumping a million gallons of radioactive wastewater into the Hudson River?

Bought by WRFA-LP, WYAP, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 04, 2023
  • Length: 28:23
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Chad Hanson
Contemporary Western fire science is integrating what Indigenous Peoples discovered over thousands of years of observation, and trial and error: fi...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
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World renowned epidemiologist Shanna Swan has an important warning for couples planning to have a baby.

Bought by WRFA-LP, WMUU-LP, and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 3
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After the news, author and investigative journalist Alden Wicker talks about toxic chemicals in the fashion industry.

Bought by WRFA-LP and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:14
  • Purchases: 2
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch was just the beginning for author and photographer Erica Cirino.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 28:25
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NY Sierra Club's Tracy Frisch tells why spreading sewage sludge on farmland is a really bad idea that will contaminate fields forever.

Bought by WRFA-LP, WMUU-LP, and WNED Buffalo


  • Added: Jun 05, 2023
  • Length: 28:15
  • Purchases: 3
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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
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The class of chemicals known as PFAS causes cancer and disrupts the endocrine system, and will pollute the world forever.

Bought by WRFA-LP and WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 22, 2023
  • Length: 28:20
  • Purchases: 2
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Our brains have evolved over millions of years to deal with immediate and direct challenges, but they’re not so great at processing large existenti...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 10
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Our brains have evolved over millions of years to deal with immediate and direct challenges, but they’re not so great at processing large existenti...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
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Every place we inhabit has its own tapestry of sound, whether you’re hiking through the woods or sitting in a cafe with a friend. And not only are ...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KGUA and more


  • Added: Mar 09, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 11
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Every place we inhabit has its own tapestry of sound, whether you’re hiking through the woods or sitting in a cafe with a friend. And not only are ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
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Is a 100% clean, renewable energy future by the year 2050 possible? Stanford Professor Mark Z. Jacobson proposes that the most efficient and social...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
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When most of us think about using nature to remove carbon dioxide from the air, we think of trees. Yet blue carbon, a new name for storing carbon ...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KGUA, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 26, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 10
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When most of us think about using nature to remove carbon dioxide from the air, we think of trees. . Yet blue carbon, a new name for storing carbon...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
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Every year, Climate One grants an award in memory of pioneering climate scientist Steve Schneider, who fiercely took on the denial machine from the...

Bought by 90.5 WESA, WMUU-LP, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 11
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Every year, Climate One grants an award in memory of pioneering climate scientist Steve Schneider, who fiercely took on the denial machine from the...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
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Our guest Dr. Scott Coffin [https://scottcoff.in/] has been studying plastic since 2014. He is a toxicologist and Research Scientist at California ...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
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Listen to author Didi Pershouse [https://www.didipershouse.com/], founder of the Land & Leadership Initiative [http://www.landandleadership.org], s...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
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We talk to Raj Patel and Rupa Marya about their new book "Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice."

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Sep 23, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Elizabeth Azzuz, Secretary of Cultural Fire Management Council, discusses her work using Traditional Native Karuk methods of prescribed burning to ...

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


  • Added: Sep 18, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
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In the tech world, there’s a common belief that once a new device hits 5% market penetration, it rapidly goes from a niche to mass adoption. Accord...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WGCU, WMUU-LP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KGUA and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
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In the tech world, there’s a common belief that once a new device hits 5% market penetration, it rapidly goes from a niche to mass adoption. Accord...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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Allen Williams of Understanding Ag [understandingag.com/] and the Soil Health Academy [soilhealthacademy.org/] discusses the importance of abiding ...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2022
  • Length: 58:00