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706-Wonders to Behold(492)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: M107, Credit: HST-NASA
From the time 3 million years ago that our ancestor Lucy walked in what is now Ethiopia until the widespread use of electric lighting began in the ...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, WTIP, RADIOLEX, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 07, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
This Week in Water for July 31, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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One Solution to the Climate Crisis is...a Pane in the Glass. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KRZA, KMXT, KGNU Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 31, 2022
  • Length: 06:09
  • Purchases: 6
This Week in Water for July 10, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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How Salt Can Predict Rain. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

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


  • Added: Jul 10, 2022
  • Length: 06:07
  • Purchases: 4
699-Last One(485)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: The last of the day's sunlight pokes through a monsoon storm building up over the northwest area of the valley, generating lightning strikes but little precipitation, Saturday, July 8, 2017, Tucson, Ariz., Credit: Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star
A huge Earth approaching asteroid is discovered right before the 2018 monsoon rains settled into the American Southwest. This weather imposed break...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KICI Iowa City, KRWG and more


  • Added: Jun 19, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Neel Dhanesha: Nurdle Hurdles
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Neel Dhanesha
What is a nurdle, you ask? Is it the latest variation on the popular New York Times puzzle, Wordle? No, not quite. Nurdles are the tiny little petr...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 25, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
This Week in Water for May 22, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Ships that Run on Ocean Plastic. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KRZA, KMXT, KGNU Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 22, 2022
  • Length: 06:07
  • Purchases: 6
695-A Large Visitor(480)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Statistically, asteroid hunters are thought to have discovered 90% of our potentially dangerous celestial neighbors greater than 1 KM in diameter. ...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KICI Iowa City, KGLP and more


  • Added: May 22, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
This Week in Water for May 1, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Using Old Face Masks to Cut Carbon. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KMXT, KGNU Community Radio, KRZA, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 01, 2022
  • Length: 06:09
  • Purchases: 7
This Week in Water for April 24, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Denver Is Using Its Sewage to Fight Climate Change. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KRZA, KMXT, KGNU Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 24, 2022
  • Length: 06:01
  • Purchases: 6
689-Botswana Bound(471)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fragments of the asteroid 2018 LA scattered over a wide area in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve., Credit: Alexande Proyer
A small space rock with a diameter less than the height of an NBA basketball player had just crossed the orbit of our Moon on a collision course wi...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KICI Iowa City, KGLP and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
687-Returnee(465)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid, Credit: NASA
After being lost for ten years, the asteroid 2010 WC9 was re-discovered about a week before it came very close to Earth.

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KICI Iowa City, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
This Week in Water for March 13, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Kite Energy Might Start to Soar. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KRZA, KGNU Community Radio, KMXT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 6
685-Exiled Asteroid(463)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist’s concept illustrating a catastrophic collision between two rocky exoplanets in the planetary system BD +20 307, turning both into dusty debris. Ten years ago, scientists speculated that the warm dust in this system was a result of a planet-to-plan, Credit: NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook
An asteroid is exiled to the outer regions of the solar system during Jupiter's rampaging tack away from the Sun long ago. During that process enou...

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  • Added: Mar 13, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
684-Our View(462)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Night Sky, Credit: NPS
Modern technology provides us with stunning views of objects in the Universe in wavelengths invisible to our eyes, however, nothing is as moving an...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, WTIP and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
This Week in Water for February 6, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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A Guilt-Free Shower…Even in Droughts? That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KRZA, KMXT, KGNU Community Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 06, 2022
  • Length: 06:15
  • Purchases: 5
680-Comets and Asteroids(454)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fragments of the Sutter’s Mill meteorite fall collected by NASA Ames and SETI Institute meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens in the evening of Tuesday April 24, 2012, two days after the fall. This was the second recovered find., Credit: NASA Ames/Eric James
If you set your mind to it, you can find and hold a sample of an asteroid, called a meteorite, which has landed on the Earth's surface. On the othe...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Feb 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Andrea Copping: The Latest on Marine Energy Projects
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Andrea Copping
We hear a lot about solar and wind power, but a renewable source of clean energy that continues to be largely untapped is the ocean. According to t...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Follow your recycling from bin to bale
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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Ride along with a sanitation worker who collects everything in San Francisco’s blue bins, and learn some dos and don’ts of recycling at a Recology ...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
This Week in Water for December 19, 2021
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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How a Kite Might Cut Carbon Emissions. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

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


  • Added: Dec 19, 2021
  • Length: 05:52
  • Purchases: 5
671-Long Winter Nights(424)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Mt. Lemmon, AZ snow storm, Credit: A.D. Grauer
Long Winter nights with good seeing, from start to finish, are those on which the asteroid hunter makes new discoveries while being treated to view...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Dec 05, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Tru Earth CEO Brad Liski: Detergent Insurgent
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Brad Liski
The next time you’re doing a load of laundry, take a second and think about all that goes into cleaning your clothes. You’ve probably contemplated ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jim Motavalli: EV Updates
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jim Motavalli
If you haven’t considered buying an electric vehicle yet, there’s a good chance that in the not-so-distant future, the decision will already be mad...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 03, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
This Week in Water for July 25, 2021
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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It Could Spell Trouble When This Stream Gets Wavy. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

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


  • Added: Jul 25, 2021
  • Length: 05:32
  • Purchases: 5
This Week in Water for July 11, 2021
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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A Toilet That Pays People to Use It. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KGNU Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WYAP


  • Added: Jul 11, 2021
  • Length: 05:31
  • Purchases: 5
This Week in Water for July 4, 2021
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Could There Be a Mask Mandate...for Cows? That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KRZA, KGNU Community Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 04, 2021
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 5