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According to NASA, over 135 million pieces of man-made metal debris orbit the Earth. While the space race may be over, someone's got to do the clea...
- Added: Oct 11, 2011
- Length: 02:00
You cannot see molecules, but human-made chemicals flow through every living thing on earth today and have a profound impact on every person’s life...
Bought by 'The Sea', KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KXOT Public Radio
- Added: Sep 26, 2011
- Length: 55:02
- Purchases: 4
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Neurophilosophy blogger Mo Costandi takes us on a tour of the brain and Astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell reveals the sounds in space
- Added: Aug 26, 2011
- Length: 28:03
- Purchases: 2
The climate crisis is a crisis of governance and leadership. Will we move rapidly enough to realign our policies, politics and economy to stabilize...
- Added: Aug 08, 2011
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
The visionary primatologist and conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall revolutionized primatology and helped us realize how close our kinship is with the...
- Added: Aug 01, 2011
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 2
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Author and activist Mark Lynas discusses his new book on global climate change The God Species
- Added: Jul 15, 2011
- Length: 26:37
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This week Nell Boase discovers the radical and reckless side of great science when she meets Michael Brooks, who's new book Free Radicals: The Secr...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 01, 2011
- Length: 30:37
- Purchases: 1
Global warming is no longer a fear for the future. It’s threatening human civilization, now. Part 2 of a special 2 part series produced by Brian E...
- Added: Jun 29, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Global warming is no longer a fear for the future. It’s threatening human civilization, now. Part 1 of a special 2 part series produced by Brian Ed...
- Added: Jun 21, 2011
- Length: 29:00
In this episode, Charlie Nardozzi debunks mosquito myths and shares some advice for coping with mosquitoes without harming the environment.
- Added: Jun 13, 2011
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
Glaciers around the world are melting at an unprecedented rate and glacier shrinkage is evidence of climate change. Paleoclimatologist Lonnie Thomp...
- Added: Jun 04, 2011
- Length: 30:02
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This week Alok Jha corners one of the UK's leading scientist Sir Paul Nurse who alongside being a Nobel winning geneticist, is also the present Pre...
- Added: May 27, 2011
- Length: 34:11
Charlie Nardozzi, expert horticulturist, talks about red hot chili peppers that range in intensity from mild to so-strong-they-are-used-for-nationa...
- Added: May 23, 2011
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
Alok Jha talks to science writer Carl Zimmer about the awesome power of viruses and his new book Planet of Viruses, also Nell Boase meets evolution...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 06, 2011
- Length: 01:13:10
- Purchases: 1
Hope or Despair on the 41st Earth Day? US Whistleblower Says Fukushima Hydrogen Explosion Could Happen Here. Oil Companies’ Control Over Media
Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and KQED
- Added: Apr 23, 2011
- Length: 57:03
- Purchases: 2
The world is facing a potentially devastating 'Food Bubble,' that according to pioneering environmentalist Lester Brown.
- Added: Apr 22, 2011
- Length: 56:59
Not all owls hunt at night and nest in trees. Burrowing owls greet the sun from abandoned prairie dog dens. What else makes these tiny birds unique?
Bought by KENW
- Added: Apr 19, 2011
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Big Bend National Park is home to many rare and endangered species, but the Big Bend gambusia lives particularly close to the edge of extinction. H...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Apr 19, 2011
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Some birds sing. Others twitter, tweet or trill. But the common nighthawk goes boom in the night. This noise isn’t all that sets nighthawks apart i...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Apr 19, 2011
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Learning to vocalize is a surprisingly unusual ability in the animal world. How do young songbirds master their musical talents?
Bought by KENW
- Added: Apr 19, 2011
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
The 21 oak species in our region assume many forms and are survivors of the last Ice Age. Who are these tenacious trees? And what animals depend on...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Apr 19, 2011
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
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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
Head to the Kamchatka Pennisula with Elizabeth Arnold to the Valley of the Geysers
Bought by KMXT and KTRT RADIO INC
- Added: Apr 12, 2011
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 2
David Eagleman suggests prejudices may be hard-wired into our brains; a new real-time film celebrating 50 years since Yuri Gagarin went into space;...
- Added: Apr 08, 2011
- Length: 28:53
- Purchases: 2
You’ve seen their sprawling, barren mounds, like little moonscapes in your field or lawn. But what lies beneath harvester ants’ conspicuous mounds?
Bought by KENW
- Added: Apr 07, 2011
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
