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As part of NautiWeek, Audacious brings you two people who broke world records underwater! One is for breath-holding, the other is for living underw...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Caption: Aboard an LL6 rescue plane in the BWCA, Credit: Joe Friedrichs
Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area is known as one of the most beautiful places in the country. It can also be a dangerous place.

  • Added: Feb 29, 2024
  • Length: 27:05
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Since the industrial revolution, the global north has seen massive economic growth. Yet that growth has been linked to increasing greenhouse gas em...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., Nevada Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 11
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Since the industrial revolution, the global north has seen massive economic growth. Yet that growth has been linked to increasing greenhouse gas em...

  • Added: Sep 07, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
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What would it take to transform a 100 year old house sitting near oil fields into the most sustainable clean energy zero-emissions house? That was ...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
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Cooper must abruptly leave Wyoming for an unexpected trip home. But there's no break in reporting on coal country: another coal-fired power plant h...

  • Added: May 10, 2021
  • Length: 46:20
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The ‘California Air Resources’ board in the summer of 2018, conclusively showed that California had met its 2020 emissions goal four years earlier ...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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Today, we're talking to Adam Cassi, who has his degree in Restoration Ecology from Defiance College, and is currently the Executive Director for K...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2020
  • Length: 06:22
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The Living Well Show presents Arthur Firstenberg. Mr. Firstenberg is the author of The Invisible Rainbow- A History of Electricity and Life. Mr. Fi...

Bought by WPCA-LP and KRZA


  • Added: Jul 11, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Julie Cataldo prepared to be lifted from her wheelchair into an accessible kayak on the Erie Canal., Credit: Veronica Volk
The Great Lakes region provides recreational opportunities all year – whether it’s hiking in the fall, ice fishing in the winter, or boating in the...

Bought by KSKA, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WRVO Public Media, Interlochen Public Radio, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 7
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Environmental issues are mounting, and the stakes are huge. So how might big data be used to tackle the issues of sustainability, climate change, h...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2016
  • Length: 34:51
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Simon Clydesdale of GPUK describes fugitive emissions and the prank GPUK pulled trying to frack the PM's house

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 01:47
  • Purchases: 1
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Design Editor at Treehugger.com, Llloyd Alter tells us what makes a building a LEED building. (Hint: bike racks help.)

  • Added: Mar 24, 2016
  • Length: 01:38
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It's hard to let go of owning a car. What passes through those pipelines we hear so much about?

  • Added: Mar 13, 2016
  • Length: 14:05
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Did you know that most insects are “good” and that they have a critical role to play in our national food security and good nutrition? Join Food Sl...

Bought by Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Dec 31, 2015
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Seventy percent of pesticides used in agriculture today are herbicides, designed to kill weeds growing in farmers’ fields across the U.S. However ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Nov 06, 2015
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Advertisements promoting natural gas drilling promise jobs and energy independence from foreign oil. But what are the unintended consequences of na...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: Hamburg, Iowa residents dancing at the "flash mob".
While much of Iowa is now dealing with drought, last summer Hamburg, IA residents held up to 17 feet of floodwater at bay. Eight feet of dirt was ...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2012
  • Length: 03:54
Caption: Nation Books, Credit: Alyssa Stepien
Reports of the health of our planet appear dim. Our conditions are becoming worse as hunger increases, and the variety of species disappear. Autho...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
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 Like “Made in Japan” a generation ago, the “Made in China” label has long been viewed by Americans as a low-cost, low quality knock-off of a costl...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 17, 2011
  • Length: 55:02
  • Purchases: 2
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China today is the most polluted nation on earth. But it’s also on its way to becoming the most environmentally advanced. And it’s no coincidence. ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 10, 2011
  • Length: 55:02
  • Purchases: 2
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Earth Day Project by 8th Grade Science students Hameed Mourani and Joseph Ricciardella.

  • Added: May 30, 2011
  • Length: 16:44
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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A daily one-minute news feature about the greening of America

  • Added: Oct 22, 2007
  • Length: 01:00
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Budget troubles could be comming to NREL

Bought by KSUT


  • Added: Jan 13, 2006
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1