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In Moab, climate change has greatly reduced the size of the wetlands and many of the mosquitoes’ natural predators that used to live there have als...
Bought by KDXI - Radio St George
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 18:10
- Purchases: 1
These days, it seems like there’s an organic option for every type of food out there, including meat. But organic usually means more expensive. Tha...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Apr 05, 2021
- Length: 03:54
- Purchases: 1
Recorded in August of 2002, a generational discussion about smoking
- Added: Mar 30, 2021
- Length: 24:40
I order a lot of takeout food these days. And I often cringe when I see the packaging, especially when I get all of those little soy sauce packets....
- Added: Mar 15, 2021
- Length: 03:54
There are about 5.5 million different species of bugs and they make up nearly 80% of all animals on Earth. But all is not well with the world’s mos...
- Added: Mar 08, 2021
- Length: 03:53
This week on World Ocean Radio: part twenty-five of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode: the importance of ocean literacy and ocean ed...
- Added: Feb 16, 2021
- Length: 05:15
Take a look out your window. What color is the ground? It turns out that what you see plays a big role in the speed of climate change.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 15, 2021
- Length: 03:35
- Purchases: 1
An ode to the coyote. Dan Flores and his book Coyote America, dueling press releases, and The Wind Inaugural Coyote Calling Contest.
- Added: Feb 02, 2021
- Length: 47:41
Today, we have a question from listener David Kellogg. He’s a big fan of solar power, but he wants to know, is it better to put solar panels on you...
- Added: Jan 18, 2021
- Length: 03:41
Dave visits with one of the world's leading climate scientists, Dr. Michael Mann. The professor of atmospheric sciences at Penn State's just publis...
Bought by KSPB Pebble Beach
- Added: Jan 14, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Today, we’re answering a question from Ada, a student from Bristol, Rhode Island. She wants to know the best thing kids can do at home to help stop...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 03:33
- Purchases: 1
Our own Fatima Husain was looking to buy holiday lights and she wondered— which type should I buy? Is there really a big difference between incande...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Dec 14, 2020
- Length: 03:43
- Purchases: 1
El alba. Un tiempo para amaneceres, café y pájaros extremamente ruidosos ¿Se han vuelto más ruidosos, o se ha calmado el mundo?
Bought by RADIOLEX
- Added: Nov 07, 2020
- Length: 02:59
- Purchases: 1
When it comes to arid climates, junipers are some of the toughest trees around. But in the past two years, southeastern Utah has seen huge swathes ...
Bought by KDXI - Radio St George
- Added: Oct 31, 2020
- Length: 21:03
- Purchases: 1
A unique combination of events came together at the end of Permian time (250 million years ago)that resulted in the extinction of more the 90% of l...
Bought by KDXI - Radio St George
- Added: Oct 31, 2020
- Length: 31:05
- Purchases: 1
There is a growing movement in colleges and universities to bring together Native Science with Western Science, to produce better informed, well-ro...
- Added: Oct 08, 2020
- Length: 07:57
This episode, we’re going to take a crack at nuts. You might’ve seen ads for healthy almonds, packs of pistachios, and more. They seem to be the “i...
- Added: Sep 22, 2020
- Length: 03:37
Some take-out food containers, cups, and utensils are called “certified compostable.” What does that really mean?
- Added: Sep 14, 2020
- Length: 04:00
About a month ago, I got a text message, asking me if I was ready to “shave the peak.” The message included a link with tips for using less electri...
- Added: Aug 31, 2020
- Length: 03:41
A couple of weeks ago, we did a show on how many greenhouse gas emissions are created by the fashion industry and that got us wondering which indus...
- Added: Aug 24, 2020
- Length: 03:55
Whether you’re shopping for a t-shirt, bedsheets, or q-tips, you might have noticed that cotton products are more expensive if they’re organic. We ...
- Added: Aug 17, 2020
- Length: 03:34
- Purchases: 2
Extreme heat can be dangerous and is often called the "silent killer". We talk with Kirsten Goldstein, a grad student at Utah State University in ...
Bought by KDXI - Radio St George, KVSC, and KRZA
- Added: Aug 05, 2020
- Length: 23:58
- Purchases: 3
The truth is, we don't need trees to breathe! You could get rid of all of the trees on the planet and we'd still have enough oxygen. That's because...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 20, 2020
- Length: 03:32
- Purchases: 1
Scientist and lawyer Dr. Adrienne Hollis connects the dots of the pandemic, and why a disproportionate number of Black and Brown people are dying.
- Added: Jul 07, 2020
- Length: 28:31
- Purchases: 2
This week on World Ocean Radio we discuss the Sargasso Sea--a verdant, vital, biodiverse ecosystem that supports a great diversity of life, provide...
- Added: Jun 16, 2020
- Length: 05:25
