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Living Planet 03/02/2018

From: DW - Deutsche Welle

Living Planet: Surprise, surprise… Our planet is full of surprises, from burning ice to clever fish! Expect the unexpected on this week's episo...

Bought by KUPR low power FM, WFIU, and KMXT

Added: Mar 01, 2018
Length: 30:00
Purchases: 3

403-Double Comet

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

A strange object consisting of two mile diameter asteroids surrounded by a gas cloud is orbiting our Sun.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KSFR, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KKRN and more

Added: Oct 26, 2017
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 6

365-Tabby's Star

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Tabby's star varies in brightness suggesting that it swallowed one or more of it's planets in the very recent past.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KKRN, KUPR low power FM, and WLPR

Added: Jun 15, 2017
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 5

349-Big and Fast

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Large dangerous asteroids can still appear out of nowhere.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KTRT RADIO INC, KRWG, KUPR low power FM and more

Added: Apr 20, 2017
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 7

Drilling into a side of an ocean trench....for science

From: Amy West

By sending pipe from a moving ship roughly three miles down to collect sediment and rocks a third of a mile beneath the sea floor in an ocean trenc...

Added: Aug 28, 2016
Length: 04:22

Where Have All the FEMA Trailers Gone?

From: Distillations
Series: Distillations

Caption: FEMA trailer with bicycles. , Credit: Courtesy of Akasha Rabut

Ten years later and thousands of miles away, Hurricane Katrina lives on.

Added: Dec 02, 2015
Length: 27:58

Hum...

From: Terrascope Radio

A short, evocative audio postcard made while visiting power-generation facilities in northern California.

Added: May 13, 2015
Length: 02:22

Trash Talk: The Persistence of Waste

From: Distillations
Series: Distillations

Caption: Buckhorn Mesa landfill., Credit: courtesy of Flickr user Alan Levine.

During our short time on Earth we humans have created a lot of stuff. Some of it's life-altering, like the device you’re using right now and some o...

Bought by XRAY.fm and WTJU

Added: Jan 21, 2015
Length: 39:39
Purchases: 2

Fuel

From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Fusion - Everlasting and Clean Energy

Physicists are approaching closer and closer to one of the Holy Grails of modern science: creating self-sustaining fusion reactions on Earth, and u...

Added: Jun 04, 2014
Length: 02:00

231: Water, Water Everywhere

From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio

Fresh water as a resource is under constant threat by over-consumption, toxins, pollutants and waste from industrial and agricultural production. I...

Added: Jul 22, 2013
Length: 05:06

Sailing The High Seas 2.0

From: Jason Albert

Caption: Wing sails on San Francisco Bay, Credit: Jason Albert

90% of the world's goods are carried by cargo ships. And the oceans they sail on are streaming with wind: High tech wing sails used on America's Cu...

Bought by Hark!, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WTIP, and PRX Remix

Added: Jul 15, 2013
Length: 06:41
Purchases: 5

Wells to Wheels: Can shale gas power cars?

From: Reid Frazier
Series: Breaking the Land: Marcellus Shale and the Gas Age

Caption: Making way for the Marcellus, Credit: Reid R. Frazier/Allegheny Front

We use natural gas to heat our homes and generate our power. Can we use it to fuel our cars? Big Gas thinks shale gas is the key to cleaning up our...

Added: Dec 22, 2011
Length: 06:57

Biomimicry

From: Sarah Lilley

Designers, engineers and corporations around the world have begun seriously to study Evolution's most successful problem-solving strategies in natu...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix