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Perhaps it’s cold comfort but it turns out that we human beings are not the only species on earth hell-bent on destroying our own habitat. We share...
Bought by WMUU-LP and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio
- Added: Apr 18, 2017
- Length: 29:40
- Purchases: 2
A research team at the U of MN has developed a sponge that can absorb mercury from a polluted water source in seconds. WTIP's Dave TerSteeg talked ...
- Added: Mar 27, 2017
- Length: 12:04
In an emergency, we’re told to “break the glass” and reach for the fire extinguisher. Some would argue we’re in the midst of a climate emergency –...
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 3
Merc Martinelli and Brian Sefton, owners of Oak Bio, discuss their company's plans to use carbon from the atmosphere to create products like fish f...
Bought by KFOI Radio and WGRN-LP 94.1
- Added: Feb 06, 2017
- Length: 54:01
- Purchases: 2
In this show we interview Dr. Alan Miller of "Cool it, Earth!", a company working to use ocean thermal energy technology (OTEC) to produce clean en...
Bought by KFOI Radio and WGRN-LP 94.1
- Added: Feb 04, 2017
- Length: 54:02
- Purchases: 2
The National Ice Core Laboratory near Denver is a really cool place. It's the repository for miles of ice that contains information about the plane...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Dec 20, 2016
- Length: 17:20
- Purchases: 1
This week we bring you an intergenerational conversation featuring David Suzuki, who is a Canadian scientist, activist, and media figure. Since the...
- Added: Sep 14, 2016
- Length: 37:26
“In Asia or Africa around 60 million years ago, snakes became more venomous, though scientists aren’t quite sure why then and there.” Sometimes und...
- Added: Sep 08, 2016
- Length: 29:03
One of the best tales of all time from geologic history is the story of the meteor impact that killed the dinosaurs. As it turns out, though, there...
Bought by WFHB
- Added: Sep 08, 2016
- Length: 29:43
- Purchases: 1
NASA research looks at the West and the world’s dwindling water resources—and what they're finding is concerning.
- Added: Aug 31, 2016
- Length: 27:41
- Purchases: 2
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
charity: water provides clean water to communities in developing countries. Scott launched charity: water in 2006 after raising $15,000 from his fr...
- Added: Aug 23, 2016
- Length: 32:00
One third of the world population does not have access to reliable electricity. D.light sells solar lighting and power to consumers in developing c...
- Added: Aug 23, 2016
- Length: 19:00
A trendy outfit has never been cheaper than it is today. Not only that, the fashion industry is churning out new styles so quickly that the entire ...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Aug 18, 2016
- Length: 18:44
- Purchases: 1
There are billions of microbes both in and on our bodies. These invisible organisms form complex ecosystems, which are passed on to us as infants t...
- Added: Aug 18, 2016
- Length: 39:46
We tend to think of the world in terms of our relationship with it: as individuals, communities, civilizations. It’s harder to think about the eart...
- Added: Aug 18, 2016
- Length: 30:39
When we think of space, we typically think of beautiful images taken by powerful telescopes and interplanetary rovers. We think of the rings around...
- Added: Aug 18, 2016
- Length: 31:19
Five things you may not know about phosphorus (but probably should): 1) It’s an essential element to all life on Earth – so it’s a critical ingredi...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Aug 16, 2016
- Length: 12:00
- Purchases: 1
Trash. Garbage. Refuse. Waste. Call it whatever you like, this is the stuff we deal with everyday that we no longer want in our lives. It’s not tha...
- Added: Aug 16, 2016
- Length: 28:30
“Oil is the blood; steel is the body; but rare earth elements are the vitamins of a modern society.” While many of us can’t even pronounce elements...
- Added: Aug 16, 2016
- Length: 30:16
A core tension at the center of many environmental debates has to do with our relationship to technology. After all, the environmental movement tha...
- Added: Aug 15, 2016
- Length: 12:26
The microbiome is the term doctors use to describe the countless organisms each one of us carries in and on our bodies. In the last few years there...
- Added: Aug 15, 2016
- Length: 10:12
Climate change is one of the many defining characteristics of the Anthropocene. But it’s about more than greenhouse gases, energy consumption, and...
- Added: Aug 10, 2016
- Length: 18:25
You can count seals in Antarctica, right from your couch, via satellite images. Dr. Michelle LaRue is a research ecologist at the U of MN Departmen...
- Added: Aug 09, 2016
- Length: 15:18
This week on Sea Change Radio, host Alex Wise chats with Daniel Kirk-Davidoff, a climate scientist at the University of Maryland and at MDA Informa...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio
- Added: Jul 12, 2016
- Length: 28:40
- Purchases: 2
