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Christmas Island Crab Bridge

From: Andrew Kornblatt

Almost every year a small island off the coast of Java is flooded with crabs. The local National Park staff came up with a unique solution to help ...

Added: Dec 23, 2017
Length: 07:28

Planes, drone monitor harmful algae in Lake Erie

From: Great Lakes Today

Caption: A photo captured by Ansari 9-24, Credit: Dr. Rafat Ansari

Algae blooms continue to color western Lake Erie a deep green. Now researchers and scientists want to know more about toxins produced by the algae....

Bought by KPIK-LP, WBFO, WOSU, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WDET Detroit Public Radio and more

Added: Oct 13, 2017
Length: 03:38
Purchases: 9

How can cities keep sewage out of Great Lakes? Go underground

From: Great Lakes Today

Caption: A photo of the finished Euclid Creek Tunnel, the first of 7., Credit: Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District

Combined sewer overflows are common in over 700 cities and towns in the country. Several cities are under consent decrees to solve this problem --...

Bought by WRVO Public Media, WXXI Rochester, WCPN, WCMU Michigan, and WBFO

Added: Jun 06, 2017
Length: 03:33
Purchases: 5

Got pollution? Canadian city puts it in giant box

From: Great Lakes Today

Caption: John Gee with Environment and Climate Change Canada stands on a platform overlooking the Randle Reef restoration project., Credit: Veronica Volk

Imagine a huge steel box – whose lid is 10 football fields across. It's being built in Hamilton's harbor on the western end of Lake Ontario. It’s d...

Bought by WMUK, WRVO Public Media, North Country Public Radio, WLPR , WCPN and more

Added: Jan 23, 2017
Length: 04:32
Purchases: 8

Great Lakes targeted for offshore wind farms

From: Great Lakes Today

Caption: Lorry Wagner, CEO of LEEDCo, Credit: Elizabeth Miller

The nation's first offshore wind farm recently began operating in New England, and developers now are eying vast body of water: the Great Lakes. Pr...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, KUVO, WCMU Michigan, WRVO Public Media, WDET Detroit Public Radio and more

Added: Dec 20, 2016
Length: 03:28
Purchases: 8

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

Gridlocked

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Outside/In

Something very different is going on up in Boothbay, Maine. It was an experiment which – if it works – could represent a fundamental shift in the w...

Added: Aug 11, 2016
Length: 22:15

Is Space the Place?

From: Distillations

Trying to save humanity by mining asteroids.

Bought by WTIP

Added: Jan 06, 2016
Length: 22:24
Purchases: 1

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

Owning The Clouds

From: Steven Jackson

Cloud seeding -- intervening in clouds to squeeze out precipitation -- is done all over the world. But it's not an exact science; we still have muc...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, The Allegheny Front: Reporting on the Environment, and PRX Remix

Added: Nov 20, 2015
Length: 09:38
Purchases: 3

Gary Cohen, Founder and President of Health Care Without Harm

From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Gary Cohen, 2015 MacArthur Fellow and Founder and President of Health Care Without H...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WJCU, KMUD, KPIP-LP, KRZA and more

Added: Nov 11, 2015
Length: 29:59
Purchases: 6

The Fog Harvester

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

Caption: John Lovell checking his fog harvest, Credit: Leila Day

Lovell is a fog harvester. He’s obsessed with the fog, and the water resources that are floating right over our heads. He points at a little white ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio

Added: Nov 28, 2014
Length: 08:45
Purchases: 1

The Altamont Pass -- good for renewable energy, bad for birds

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

Caption: Wildlife biologist Doug Bell birdwatching at the Altamont Pass, Credit: Judy Silber

California entrepreneurs saw potential in the gusty winds that blew out at the Altamont Pass, between the Central Valley and Bay Area. By the mid-’...

Added: Oct 27, 2014
Length: 07:09

Zero waste in San Francisco is a 2020 vision

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

“The goal is Zero Waste by 2020, and we think that is an achievable goal.” Those words from former San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom back in 2009 p...

Added: Oct 27, 2014
Length: 06:04

Robin Guenther, FAIA, Sustainable Healthcare Design Expert

From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care

This week on Conversations on Health Care, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Robin Guenther, FAIA, Principal at the global archit...

Bought by KRZA, KVSC, and WRIR

Added: Oct 06, 2014
Length: 30:00
Purchases: 3

Sounding the Alarm: Noise Pollution

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Noise pollution is a growing problem. Effecting everything from the lives of people living under airplane flight paths, to marine life. On this edi...

Bought by WFHB and WXDU

Added: Mar 30, 2014
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

Landfill expansion pits Marin environmentalists against nation's largest waste company

From: KALW

If you drive north from San Francisco and through most of Marin County, you get to the town of Novato. Turn east from Highway 101 and you run into ...

Added: Nov 06, 2013
Length: 04:39

A Kickstarter for your electricity bill

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

Caption: Solar workers installing panels on the Shawl Anderson Dance Center, Credit: Andreas Karelas

Among these new and creative ways to finance solar panels is crowdfunding. Instead of one person or organization paying tens of thousands of dollar...

Bought by KSFR

Added: Oct 09, 2013
Length: 07:39
Purchases: 1

Biohacking project a glowing controversy

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

Caption: A still from the BioCurious Kickstarter video

When we think of garage scientists, the eccentric, gray-haired Dr. Emmett Brown from Back to the Future might come to mind. But these days, garages...

Bought by WTJU

Added: Oct 09, 2013
Length: 08:47
Purchases: 1

EdX, Orphaned Black Bear Cubs, Tissue Engineering, Cosmic Evolution - and more!

From: Jenny Attiyeh

This ThoughtCast hour is devoted to innovation, the intellect, and the environment: from the creation of artificial skin; to new theories about bla...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

Added: Sep 30, 2013
Length: 58:40
Purchases: 2

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

Making Your Home or Building Energy Efficient with Darlene Pope

From: Green Connections Radio
Series: Green Connections Radio

Caption: Darlene Pope (l) and Joan Michelson (r)

Buildings consume over 40% of our energy - nearly half of all our energy use. Darlene Pope, expert in "intelligent buildings" and Founder and CEO o...

Added: Dec 29, 2012
Length: 29:26

The Field Trip Podcast: Swimming with Submersibles

From: The Field Trip Podcast

This week, correspondent Teresa Chin takes us on a tour beneath the Monterey Bay to explore the sights and creatures of the deep. Cruise a shipwrec...

Bought by KUER