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249-Tough Tourist
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A block and a half sized asteroid makes visits to Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, and Jupiter.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KENW and more


  • Added: May 05, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
248-Incoming
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A close approaching asteroid was observed as it passed between the Earth and our Moon.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KKRN and more


  • Added: Apr 28, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
246-Anatomy of an Extinction Crater
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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By drilling into a crater rim, researchers hope to discover how the Earth and it's life forms recovered from an asteroid impact.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KENW and more


  • Added: Apr 21, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
244-Earth's Wobble
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A careful study of the Earth's motion in space is a key to understanding past climate change and enables us to predict future patterns of flooding ...

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KENW and more


  • Added: Apr 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
242-Spray Paint
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A gentle method of causing an asteroid to miss planet Earth.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KENW and more


  • Added: Apr 08, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
241-Could Be Twins
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A pair of possibly related comets pass unusually close to Earth.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KENW and more


  • Added: Apr 08, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
240-Why
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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What motivates asteroid hunters?

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KRWG and more


  • Added: Apr 04, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
239-Martian Lakes
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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We may be able to learn about the possibilities of life on Mars by studying land forms on the Tibetan Plateau here on Earth.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KRWG and more


  • Added: Apr 04, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
236-Enceladus's Ocean
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Pound for Pound Enceladus is the brightest object in our solar system. Could it be the home of alien life forms?

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KRWG and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
234-Salty and Cold
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The salty oceans of Europa may be very similar to the seas of planet Earth.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KRWG and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
226-Cosmic Campground
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Cosmic Campground is one of the last places where one can experience the natural night sky in the lower 48.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KRWG and more


  • Added: Feb 11, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
223-Back Home
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A mysterious piece of space hardware comes back to Earth.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KRWG and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Take Care #31
From: WRVO Public Media
Series: Take Care
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Episode topics: Hiking survival and contact lenses.

  • Added: Jan 07, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
It's a Jungle Out There (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Over the past 50 years, the Amazon rainforest has lost nearly 20% of its forest cover. We talk with the Amazon expert who coined the term “biodive...

Bought by WCNY, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WTJU, KEDT, and WABE


  • Added: Aug 14, 2015
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 5
Virginia’s Restless Archipelago Part 3
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Colony of American oyster catchers on a lesser Barrier Island., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Oyster Virginia is an old fishing village on the seaside of the Easter Shore. On the road in there are old dead rises, some half submerged in the s...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2015
  • Length: 26:36
The Leaves are Falling
From: WDSE
Series: The North Shore
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Bryan talks about the best leaf-peeping options in the Northland - not just the North Shore.

  • Added: Mar 23, 2015
  • Length: 07:36
The Animals of Isle Royale
From: WDSE
Series: The North Shore
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There is one very wild Island is here on the North Shore. Guest host Bryan French talks about the history of Isle Royal and their moose and wolf s...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 23, 2015
  • Length: 12:31
  • Purchases: 1
The "Galapagos of North America": California's Channel Islands
From: H2O Radio
Series: Journalism About Water
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Leaping dolphins, towering sea caves, long stretches of isolated beaches within a stone's throw of LA, but few visit this amazing place... but you ...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio


  • Added: Feb 10, 2015
  • Length: 13:27
  • Purchases: 1
The Oregon Caves
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Roger Brandt, the manager of visitor services and education at the Oregon Caves National Monument, one of the few marble ...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 29:01
A Visit to Wind Cave National Park
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits Wind Cave National Park in the Black Hills of southwest South Dakota, and speaks with the park's Chief of Interpretation Tom F...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2014
  • Length: 29:01
Birds on Life Support
From: Susanne Bard
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Hawaii’s birds face multiple threats, but one small thrush on the island of Kaua’i is a success story – so far.

  • Added: Jul 06, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
Saving Hawaiian Crows
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Hawaiian Crow, Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
The Hawaiian crow is recovering from a devastating population crash, with help from us.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
Winter Wolves
From: Jennifer Jerrett
Caption: Biological Technician Rick McIntyre, Credit: NPS / Neal Herbert
Some of the best howling of the season at Yellowstone National Park

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio, Radio Newark, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 01, 2014
  • Length: 02:12
  • Purchases: 4
Scientists Work to Protect Region's Last Coastal Wilderness
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Virginia's barrier islands shelter more than 250 species of raptors, songbirds and shorebirds., Credit: Lindsay Renick Mayer
Efforts are underway to restore the fragile ecosystem of the shifting, changing land masses known as Virginia's barrier islands.

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Feb 27, 2014
  • Length: 06:13
  • Purchases: 1
Antarctica
From: Hold That Thought
Series: People, Places, and Ideas to Explore
Caption: Doug Wiens in Antarctica
Prof. Doug Wiens describes his explorations of Antarctica. Wiens uses seismographs to study the physics behind ice movement and examine questions a...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2013
  • Length: 12:26