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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
A renowned marine biologist is studying a silent killer in oceans and bays. Allison Quantz has the story.
Bought by KENW
- Added: May 10, 2012
- Length: 02:39
- Purchases: 1
Al Bartlett talks about how we must achieve a sustainable world. This piece has aired on KGNU Boulder.
- Added: May 02, 2012
- Length: 24:14
Into the national conversation about climate change and our planet's natural resources comes The Global Warming Reader: A Century of Writing About ...
- Added: Apr 10, 2012
- Length: 28:40
Ice Age survivors that once roamed the far north alongside the woolly mammoth, now struggling on the slopes of Norway.
Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon
- Added: Oct 05, 2011
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
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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
In recent years, sea ice in the Arctic has been melting at an alarming rate, and scientists are asking why. The science community has recently take...
Bought by KENW and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Aug 24, 2011
- Length: 02:29
- Purchases: 2
There have been mysterious purple boxes popping up in trees along roadsides and throughout forests. Charlie Nardozzi has some silly ideas about wha...
- Added: Jul 19, 2011
- Length: 02:30
- 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
From: Richard Ziglar
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
Most of us shudder to imagine the impact of another large oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and for good reason. A spill in future decades could hav...
- Added: Jul 05, 2011
- Length: 04:36
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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
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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
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
Sam Bowring studies mass extinctions in the Earth's past. He says humans might not be around much longer... geologically speaking.
Bought by Radio Newark, KRUA, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 22, 2011
- Length: 01:29
- Purchases: 3
Anthropologist and explorer Kenny Broad studies some of the world's most dangerous places—underwater caves called "Blue Holes."
Bought by Radio Newark, KRUA, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 22, 2011
- Length: 01:29
- Purchases: 3
Leech expert Mark Siddall explains why leeches can survive on nothing but blood.
Bought by Radio Newark, KRUA, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 22, 2011
- Length: 01:14
- Purchases: 3
Planetary scientist Geoff Marcy describes how the Earth got just the right amount of water to support life.
Bought by Radio Newark, KRUA, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 22, 2011
- Length: 01:29
- Purchases: 3
From: SQRadio
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
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We dial up researchers investigating climate change in Antarctica; plus, internet guru Clay Shirky explains his answer to this year's Edge Question
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 20, 2011
- Length: 27:59
- Purchases: 1
Commentary that argues that to be environmentally friendly we want products designed so that the high value materials can be removed - reserving re...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:48
Energy from the wind is renewable and pollutes very little, yet the wind supplies only a small percent of the United States electricity. Why?
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:51
Two of the greatest environmental threats of the twentieth century - leaded gas and freon - were the work of a single man named Thomas Midgley. His...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:35
." The key obstacle to these cars, and their achilles heel, is getting the hydrogen to the car.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:40
Natural chemical processes kick into high gear in the autumn; turning leaves, ripening vegetables, and the fermentation of apples into cider.
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Oct 22, 2009
- Length: 11:42
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jul 29, 2009
- Length: 04:19
- Purchases: 2
