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In recent years, sea ice in the Arctic has been melting at an alarming rate, and scientists are asking why. The science community has recently take...
Bought by KENW and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Aug 24, 2011
- Length: 02:29
- Purchases: 2
This week, Charlie talks about three hardy bushes that flower in the middle of the summer. Clethra, the button bush, and the seven-son flower take ...
- Added: Aug 01, 2011
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
There have been mysterious purple boxes popping up in trees along roadsides and throughout forests. Charlie Nardozzi has some silly ideas about wha...
- Added: Jul 19, 2011
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
Dr. Helen Caldicott describes how the nuclear disasters that began in Japan on March 11, 2011, with the massive 9.0 point earthquake and resulting ...
- Added: Jul 07, 2011
- Length: 29:00
From: Richard Ziglar
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
Most of us shudder to imagine the impact of another large oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and for good reason. A spill in future decades could hav...
- Added: Jul 05, 2011
- Length: 04:36
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This week Nell Boase discovers the radical and reckless side of great science when she meets Michael Brooks, who's new book Free Radicals: The Secr...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 01, 2011
- Length: 30:37
- Purchases: 1
From: Richard Ziglar
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
(NOTE: This piece is non-narrated.)
The Guardian has described Louisiana chemist Wilma Subra as BP’s “worst nightmare.” A winner of the MacArthur ...
- Added: Jun 30, 2011
- Length: 05:49
Sam Bowring studies mass extinctions in the Earth's past. He says humans might not be around much longer... geologically speaking.
Bought by Radio Newark, KRUA, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 22, 2011
- Length: 01:29
- Purchases: 3
Planetary scientist Geoff Marcy describes how the Earth got just the right amount of water to support life.
Bought by Radio Newark, KRUA, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 22, 2011
- Length: 01:29
- Purchases: 3
From: SQRadio
The Pando Aspen is a clonal colony of a single male Quaking Aspen (populus tremuloides) also known as the trembling giant because of its elliptical...
- Added: Apr 17, 2011
- Length: 27:33
Join us for the second part of this week's show on China World Heritage with special guests Ms. Lulu Zhou, associate director of philanthropy at Th...
- Added: Feb 09, 2011
- Length: 07:26
We continue the Chinese New Year celebration with the first part of this week's show on China World Heritage with special guests Ms. Lulu Zhou, ass...
- Added: Feb 07, 2011
- Length: 07:16
Some "local" food is actually harvested from Costco or as far away as Mexico. Some think it's time for a certification process to make sure local ...
Bought by KISU
- Added: Feb 04, 2011
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 1
The local food movement is beginning to threaten global agricultural brands like the iconic Idaho potato.
- Added: Sep 08, 2010
- Length: 06:12
Just in time for the global climate summit in Copenhagen and the debate on a climate and energy bill in Washington, this half hour special from Hig...
Bought by WFHB, RadioStPete Florida, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KGNU Community Radio, KGLT and more
- Added: Nov 22, 2009
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 11
Commentary that argues that to be environmentally friendly we want products designed so that the high value materials can be removed - reserving re...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:48
Energy from the wind is renewable and pollutes very little, yet the wind supplies only a small percent of the United States electricity. Why?
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:51
Two of the greatest environmental threats of the twentieth century - leaded gas and freon - were the work of a single man named Thomas Midgley. His...
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:35
." The key obstacle to these cars, and their achilles heel, is getting the hydrogen to the car.
- Added: Nov 02, 2009
- Length: 02:40
Natural chemical processes kick into high gear in the autumn; turning leaves, ripening vegetables, and the fermentation of apples into cider.
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Oct 22, 2009
- Length: 11:42
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jul 29, 2009
- Length: 04:19
- Purchases: 2
One Hour Radio Special presented by The National Science Foundation and IEEE Spectrum Radio exploring emerging global water issues.
Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WEKU, KGOU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more
- Added: Jul 28, 2009
- Length: 58:52
- Purchases: 13
We find out how brownfields are converted into something useful and why Dow Chemical chose Midland, Michigan, for their plant location. Chemical Ag...
- Added: Jul 08, 2009
- Length: 11:57
Two years after Hurricane Katrina, the Gulf was (and is) still in a shambles in many places. The culprits of the man-made disaster? Ridiculed but l...
- Added: Jun 09, 2009
- Length: 06:58
The Waxman-Markey Climate Bill is making its way through Congress, and stirring up controversy within the environmental movement between those who ...
- Added: Jun 05, 2009
- Length: 29:36
