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Global Plastics Crisis with Dr. Leo Trasande
From: Doug Wood
Series: Grassroots
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After the news, Dr. Trasande, a delegate to the UN conference on plastics, talks about plastic as a human health issue.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Apr 29, 2024
  • Length: 28:09
  • Purchases: 1
782-Probing The Cosmic Web
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: A Cosmic Thread, Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Feige Wang (University of Arizona)
In the past two decades astronomers have discovered that galaxies are not randomly distributed in space but rather occur along filaments of mass wi...

Bought by Raven Radio, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KGLP and more


  • Added: Jan 21, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
This Week in Water for January 7, 2024
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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How Whales Might Help Us Communicate with Extraterrestrials. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KRZA, KGNU Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Jan 07, 2024
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 6
This Week in Water for December 10, 2023
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Phase Down? Or Phase Out? That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KMXT, KRZA, KGNU Community Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 10, 2023
  • Length: 06:05
  • Purchases: 8
This Week in Water for November 19, 2023
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Going Nuclear in a Small Way. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KRZA, KMXT, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Nov 19, 2023
  • Length: 05:58
  • Purchases: 7
This Week in Water for October 15, 2023
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Fireproofing Your Home…with Fungi? That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KRZA, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Oct 15, 2023
  • Length: 06:10
  • Purchases: 7
764 Green Airglow
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Green Airglow Over Colorado, Credit: Aaron Watson
The natural night sky is alive with its own lights. In addition to celestial sources often there is natural night sky airglow powered by space wea...

Bought by Raven Radio, RADIOLEX, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WTIP, KGLP and more


  • Added: Sep 17, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
This Week in Water for May 21, 2023
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Footprints You Leave on the Beach Contain Your DNA. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KRZA, KMXT, RadioFreePalmer, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WYAP and more


  • Added: May 21, 2023
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 6
This Week in Water for May 7, 2023
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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When a Dustup Is a Good Thing. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KRZA, KGNU Community Radio, RadioFreePalmer, WYAP and more


  • Added: May 07, 2023
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 7
This Week in Water for April 30, 2023
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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How Climate Change Means More Pirates. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KRZA, KGNU Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 6
Finless Foods: A Different Kettle of Fish
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Shannon Cosentino-Roush
Long time Sea Change Radio listeners know a thing or two about the challenges of being both a seafood lover and an environmentalist. It’s hard to k...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Apr 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Cracking the Havana Syndrome with Dr. Beatrice Golomb
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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The symptoms suffered by diplomats and White House staff came from the same kind of radiation emitted by cell phones and cell towers.

Bought by WNED Buffalo and WYAP


  • Added: Apr 03, 2023
  • Length: 57:10
  • Purchases: 2
This Week in Water for April 2, 2023
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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A Grueling Sporting Event Is Doing Science. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KRZA, KMXT, KGNU Community Radio, KICI Iowa City, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Apr 02, 2023
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 7
A Royal Pain—How King Tides in California Reveal a Troubling Future
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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California has been inundated with heavy rain in recent weeks as atmospheric rivers from the Pacific Ocean unleash moisture. But within a few decad...

Bought by KRZA, KGNU Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jan 15, 2023
  • Length: 05:34
  • Purchases: 4
This Week in Water for October 30, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Skip This Chore to Help the Climate. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KRZA, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KGNU Community Radio, and WYAP


  • Added: Oct 30, 2022
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 4
The Revelator’s John Platt on Endangered Species
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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Historian and philosopher Yuval Harari writes, “When the first humans reached Australia about 45,000 years ago, they quickly drove to extinction 90...

  • Added: Jul 13, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
John Fleck: Drought Dilemmas and the Colorado River
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: John Fleck
Years of extreme drought have left the Colorado River at alarmingly low levels. Earlier this month, water management experts testified in front of ...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
The Promise of Psychedelic Therapy
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Oli Mittermaier
Psychologist and pop culture icon of the 1960s, Timothy Leary, famously instructed San Francisco hippies to take psychedelic drugs in order to “tur...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Hog Wild: Susanne Rust on the Feral Pig Problem
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Susanne Rust
You may not have seen them running through your yard, but just wait. Feral pigs are everywhere and they’re a growing problem. This week on Sea Chan...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Holy Smoke! Air Quality Meteorologist Scott Landes
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Scott Landes
With record-setting wildfires blanketing large swaths of the Western United States in smoke, we thought it appropriate to speak to someone who know...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 08, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Bob Berwyn: Water In The West
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Bob Berwyn
As we embark upon a new decade, many of us are contemplating ongoing environmental challenges and what may be in store for the earth in the decade ...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
A Greener Commute
From: Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Series: Ways & Means "Shorts"
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Research with commuters in Durham, NC shows what gets them to leave their cars behind and take alternate transportation.

  • Added: Apr 03, 2019
  • Length: 03:18
Scientists forecast significant algae bloom on Lake Erie
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Western Lake Erie in September 2017 , Credit: Elizabeth Miller/ideastream
The annual algae bloom forecast for western Lake Erie is out and scientists predict a significant bloom.

Bought by WCMU Michigan, WKSU, and Interlochen Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 13, 2018
  • Length: :48
  • Purchases: 3
477-Hannes's Discoveries
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently, my newest Catalina Sky Survey Teammate, Hannes Groeller, had an excellent training night, working with Greg Leonard, on our 60 inch teles...

Bought by KENW, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, WTIP, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jul 12, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Erosion threatens coastal property along Great Lakes
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: The effects of erosion in Euclid, Ohio, Credit: Elizabeth Miller/ideastream
Great Lakes water levels are high right now – Lake Erie’s are two feet above average, which threatens coastal properties from Ashtabula to Toledo. ...

Bought by WVBI-LP, WKAR, WOUB, WDET Detroit Public Radio, and WCMU Michigan


  • Added: Jun 15, 2018
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 5