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Caption: Image of Arctic Ice, Credit: Pink floyd88 a, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
In recent years, scientists have begun testing geoengineering technologies to slow down or even stop global warming. But, is geoengineering safe? A...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Disasters caused by burning fossil fuels are becoming more frequent, and in the aftermath of hurricanes, floods and wildfires, federal and state re...

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


  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
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Disasters caused by burning fossil fuels are becoming more frequent, and in the aftermath of hurricanes, floods and wildfires, federal and state re...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
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Jess digs into the science of soils and farming in the century of climate change with Dr. Rick Cruse of Iowa State University.

  • Added: Oct 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:49
Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series
My guest today, Dr. Noah Whiteman, tells us to scratch beneath the surface of a coffee bean, a red pepper flake, a poppy seed, a mold spore, a foxg...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2023
  • Length: 35:16
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Science fictions are widely held dangerous beliefs that are not supported by science. Jess explores a few of these in anticipation of the continued...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2023
  • Length: 29:00

  • Added: Sep 21, 2023
  • Length: 30:37
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Fourteen years after receiving its permit, the nation’s first new nuclear reactors in decades just fired up in Georgia. Massive, traditional nuclea...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Maine Public Radio, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14
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Fourteen years after receiving its permit, the nation’s first new nuclear reactors in decades just fired up in Georgia. Massive, traditional nuclea...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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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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We are nearing the end of the RESCUE series. This week, in its 30th edition, we're talking about water: the well-spring of world ocean health and t...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2023
  • Length: 04:57
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This year is shaping up to be the hottest year in 125,000 years. It may also be the coolest year a child born today will ever see. In “The Quickeni...

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


  • Added: Aug 17, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 10
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This year is shaping up to be the hottest year in 125,000 years. It may also be the coolest year a child born today will ever see. In “The Quickeni...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
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Microbiologist Irene Garcia Newton shares her knowledge about the many organisms involved in keeping a colony of honeybees healthy.

  • Added: Aug 15, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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In the early 20th century, terrapins–a kind of turtle–were a culinary delicacy. Then humans nearly hunted them to extinction.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KXCV, WRMU and more


  • Added: Aug 04, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
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In the early 20th century, terrapins–a kind of turtle–were a culinary delicacy. Then humans nearly hunted them to extinction.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, WYAP, and KHEN-LP


  • Added: Aug 04, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
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In the early 20th century, terrapins–a kind of turtle–were a culinary delicacy. Then humans nearly hunted them to extinction.

Bought by WTJU, KXCV, WMUU-LP, KEDT, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Aug 04, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
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In the early 20th century, terrapins–a kind of turtle–were a culinary delicacy. Then humans nearly hunted them to extinction.

Bought by WABE, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KXCV, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Aug 04, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Paul Pino of Carrizozo, New Mexico., Credit: Nate Hegyi
From NHPR's Outside/In comes two stories that shed light on unseen consequences of America's nuclear ambitions.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Vermont Public, and Valley Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 01, 2023
  • Length: 56:30
  • Purchases: 4
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In the last full episode of the season, we travel to the Greenland ice sheet and hear from a researcher who collects data at the face of tidewater ...

  • Added: Jul 12, 2023
  • Length: 23:22
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This week we continue the multi-part RESCUE series with a proposed solution to advance successful connection and communication within and with thos...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2023
  • Length: 10:25
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Humanity’s impact on Planet Earth has a name: the Anthropocene. The start of Earth’s human age can be pinpointed in ice and biological cores, and t...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jul 04, 2023
  • Length: 59:33
  • Purchases: 1
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We hear what makes tidewater glacier habitat an acoustic refuge, and why glaciers are important to other species in the ecosystem.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 19:11
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We listen to part of the glacier travel story shared in the book "Do Glaciers Listen?" Frank Olive, from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, shares...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 08:30
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We hear from Judy Ramos in Lingít Aaní. She tells us about the history of glacier travel in the region, and about the Spirit of the Glacier.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 24:28