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It's A Jungle Out There (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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The disappearing Amazon has lost 20% of its forest cover - Studying the toothy beasts of the Rio Negro - A Guyanan songbird's journey to NYC - How ...

Bought by WCNY, WCWP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Aug 18, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11
It's A Jungle Out There (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The disappearing Amazon has lost 20% of its forest cover - Studying the toothy beasts of the Rio Negro - A Guyanan songbird's journey to NYC

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, WCQS, WUGA (part of GPB), KMUN and more


  • Added: Aug 18, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 10
The Rising Tide (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Mapping the sinking shores of Tangier Island - Where do you go when your homeland disappears? - Measuring hurricanes with new technology - A previe...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Aug 11, 2017
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 1
The Rising Tide (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Mapping the sinking shores of Tangier Island - Where do you go when your homeland disappears? - Measuring hurricanes with new technology - A previe...

Bought by WCNY, WCWP, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
The Rising Tide (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Mapping the sinking shores of Tangier Island - Where do you go when your homeland disappears? - Measuring hurricanes with new technology - A previe...

Bought by WJCT, 'The Sea', WCQS, WVAS, WUGA (part of GPB) and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Time Blindness: Jack Alpert #222
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Frustrated at the abysmal rate of adoption when seatbelts were introduced into cars in the 1960s, Jack Alpert quit his job as an automotive enginee...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio and KTRL


  • Added: Jul 18, 2017
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
Bystander Effect: Alan Berkowitz #221
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Are we all “bystanders” when it comes to responding rationally to the serious environmental crises faced by our civilization? How is our behavior s...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio and KTRL


  • Added: Jul 11, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson (the sequel)
From: Generation Anthropocene
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What will New York City look like in 2140? Scifi author Kim Stanley Robinson’s latest novel explores a possible future in which NYC is partly subme...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 40:50
Thriving Economy: Not Rocket Science – Kate Raworth #220
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Human civilization can thrive while living within sensible limits imposed by a finite system. “Renegade economist” Kate Raworth manages to tell the...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio and KTRL


  • Added: Jul 04, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
RDD: Butterflies and Turtles, and Snakes! Oh, My!
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, you'll meet Kent Bekker, the Director of Conservation at the Toledo Zoo. Kent's local conservation work began...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Music of the Glaciers (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Composer Matthew Burtner, Credit: Matthew Burtner
Listen to how the sounds of melting glaciers are being frozen in time and woven into haunting electronic musical compositions. We also talk about d...

Bought by WCNY, WCWP, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRGY and more


  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 10
The Music of the Glaciers (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Composer Matthew Burtner, Credit: Matthew Burtner
Listen to how the sounds of melting glaciers are being frozen in time and woven into haunting electronic musical compositions. We also talk about d...

Bought by WJCT, KMUN, WCQS, WNMU-FM, WNSB and more


  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Music of the Glaciers (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
Caption: Composer Matthew Burtner, Credit: Matthew Burtner
Listen to how the sounds of melting glaciers are being frozen in time and woven into haunting electronic musical compositions. We also talk about d...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 1
Biodiversity valuable in many ways to humans and the planet
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Researchers at the University of Minnesota's College of Biological Science say we're on the brink of mass extinction, due to habitat destruction, o...

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: Jun 05, 2017
  • Length: 14:30
  • Purchases: 1
Alaska communities turning increasingly to renewable energy
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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David Shaw is a science writer, guide, photographer, and wildlife biologist living near Fairbanks, Alaska. He joined WTIP's CJ Heithoff to talk abo...

  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 19:41
Californias Alternative Energy Plan in The Trump Era
From: Coastridge Productions
Series: Planet Watch
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California's AB 32 paved the way for a bold investment in alternative energy. SB 32 will up the ante, aiming to phase out fossil fuels by 2050. Wil...

Bought by KFOI Radio


  • Added: Apr 17, 2017
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 1
Pulitzer100: Stories in Science (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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-Pulitzer Prize winning author Dan Fagin on his book "Tom's River: A Story of Science and Salvation" that tells the story of a how small town fough...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: :30
Pulitzer100: Stories in Science (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Pulitzer Prize winning author Dan Fagin on his book "Tom's River: A Story of Science and Salvation" that tells the story of a how small town fough...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KEDT, XRAY.fm and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 11
Pulitzer100: Stories in Science (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-Pulitzer Prize winning author Dan Fagin on how a small town fought against pollution and the polluters. -Marc Edwards who helped uncover the water...

Bought by WJCT, WLPR , KRZA, KMUN, WUGA (part of GPB) and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 10
Frans de Waal discusses animal intelligence
From: Janelle Brown
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Host Bob Kustra talks with biologist Frans de Waal about his bestseller, "Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?"

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: Mar 31, 2017
  • Length: 30:30
  • Purchases: 1
U of MN "Super Sponge" can clean mercury from lakes
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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A research team at the U of MN has developed a sponge that can absorb mercury from a polluted water source in seconds. WTIP's Dave TerSteeg talked ...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2017
  • Length: 12:04
U of MN researchers develop new technology to make car tires from trees & grasses
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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A team at the University of Minnesota has invented a new technology to produce renewable car tires from trees and grasses. Lead researcher Prof. P...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2017
  • Length: 10:38
National Ice Core Lab stores samples from ice sheets all over the world
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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The National Ice Core Laboratory near Denver is a really cool place. It's the repository for miles of ice that contains information about the plane...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Dec 20, 2016
  • Length: 17:20
  • Purchases: 1
Leaf to Landscape program studies & manages health of the giant sequoias
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
Caption: giant sequoias, Credit: courtesy Wendy Baxter
The iconic giant sequoias are under stress from years of drought and climate change. Wendy Baxter, of the Dawson Lab at the University of Californi...

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: Dec 13, 2016
  • Length: 19:10
  • Purchases: 1
Bob King's new book, "Night Sky with the Naked Eye," tells how to find night sky wonders without a telescope
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Bob King, creator of the Duluth News-Tribune's Astro Bob blog, has written a great new book about how to find planets, constellations, satellites, ...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Dec 06, 2016
  • Length: 18:13
  • Purchases: 1