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Drugs in the Drinking Water
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Many of us drink tiny doses of drugs like ibuprofen and birth control pills with each glass of tap. Should we care?

Bought by WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KRUA


  • Added: Oct 14, 2008
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 4
DIY Green Building
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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On the frontiers of green building

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 01, 2008
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 1
Natural Maryland-Episode 1 Nature's Bounty
From: Baltimore Public Media
Series: Natural Maryland
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International convergence of Red Knot, Horseshoe Crab and man on the Delaware Bay shore.

Bought by The Nature Podcast


  • Added: Oct 01, 2008
  • Length: 56:20
  • Purchases: 1
Disappearing Plants
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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For plants, global warming means move or die.

Bought by WABE, KZYX, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Sep 17, 2008
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 3
Acidic Seas
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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What's global warming doing to the ocean?

Bought by KZYX, KRUA, KUOW, WRNC-LP, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 17, 2008
  • Length: 04:57
  • Purchases: 6
Oyster Larvae Dying Off at Alarming Rates
From: KUOW
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The oyster industry in the Pacific Northwest could be facing serious trouble.

  • Added: Aug 25, 2008
  • Length: 05:16
How to Eat a Low-Carbon Diet
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Is local food necessarily low-carbon?

Bought by WRVO Public Media, KVNF, KGOU, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 24, 2008
  • Length: 04:38
  • Purchases: 4
Does the Internet Have A Carbon Footprint?
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Server farms drive the Internet -- and global warming. How do we clean them up?

Bought by WABE, KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, WRVO Public Media, and KGOU


  • Added: Jun 19, 2008
  • Length: 04:52
  • Purchases: 5
Designer Biofuels
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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How do you make fuel from plants?

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 05:02
  • Purchases: 2
It's Not Easy Going Green
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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It's one thing for a city to set environmental goals -- another thing entirely to meet them.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 04:54
Stamping Out the Light Brown Apple Moth
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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How should we be of the light brown apple moth?

  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 05:15
Sewage Happens
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Think your city has a sewage problem? You haven't seen the half ot it.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 1
The Mysterious Death of the Barn Owl
From: Guy Hand
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Barn owls die in larger numbers than any other animal on Idaho highways. Why?

  • Added: Jan 16, 2008
  • Length: 03:56
QUEST The New Clean Tech
From: KQED
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Who will be the Googles and Yahoos of clean tech?

Bought by KLCC


  • Added: Jan 07, 2008
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 1
Paper or Plastic?
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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What's better for the environment?

Bought by KZYX and KLCC


  • Added: Dec 18, 2007
  • Length: 05:26
  • Purchases: 2
QUEST_How Do You Clean Up An Oil Spill?
From: KQED
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Why San Francisco's recent oil spill will be so hard to clean up.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 16, 2007
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 1
Quest_Marine Protected Areas
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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One Fish, Two Fish: The Science of Protecting Sea Life

  • Added: Oct 26, 2007
  • Length: 04:45
Quest_Geothermal
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Solar and wind get all the press, but geothermal is poised for a comeback

Bought by WBEZ and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 16, 2007
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 2
Quest_Greening Man
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Burning Man Meets Clean Tech

  • Added: Sep 21, 2007
  • Length: 05:47
Quest_Sharks of the SF Bay
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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No great whites here, but the SF Bay is teeming with 5 species of sharks.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2007
  • Length: 05:47
Quest_The Salt Water Solution
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Is desalination the solution to the California's chronic water woes?

  • Added: Aug 17, 2007
  • Length: 05:47
Quest_Graywater Guerillas
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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A report from the frontlines of D.I.Y eco-plumbing.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 23, 2007
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 1
Grand Experiment in Wildlife Management
From: Northwest News Network (N3)
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Scientists Attempt to Move Massive Commorant Colony from mouth of Columbia River

  • Added: Jul 17, 2007
  • Length: 04:13
QUEST_The Legacy of Salt
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Quest radio takes a look at the largest wetlands restoration in the West - the South Bay Salt Ponds Restoration Project.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2007
  • Length: 05:48
Crossing Admiralty Inlet
From: John Ryan
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The rough seas -- real and virtual -- of Puget Sound

  • Added: Apr 06, 2007
  • Length: 06:08