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607-Good Night
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artistic illustration of an asteroid approaching Earth. , Credit: Image Credit: Dieter Spannknebel / Getty Images
Nearly every day during the monsoon rainy season in the American southwest, afternoon thunderstorms require putting mountain top telescopes and ca...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP and more


  • Added: Sep 11, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
Keep Cool and think of Kolkata
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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As San Francisco’s heat wave hits 100º Sandip Roy recalls how to battle heat waves in his native Kolkata.

  • Added: Sep 07, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
606-Falling Stones
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Approximately 100 million metric tons of mostly sand grained sized space dust enters the Earth's atmosphere every day. Occasionally, larger pieces ...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP and more


  • Added: Sep 04, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Living Planet 09/04/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Fossil fuel damages - As a major oil spill threatens coral reef ecosystems off Mauritius, locals are asking who'll pay f...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KRZA, WXDU, and WFIU


  • Added: Sep 04, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
Climate Courage
From: Safe Space Radio
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Reports of wildfires, hurricanes, and extinctions are frightening, yet we rarely hear people talking about the mental health impact of these change...

Bought by KOSU, WFAE, Nevada Public Radio, KMUN, WWNO and more


  • Added: Aug 31, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 23
World in Progress 08/27/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Mekong dams turn off the tap for farmers and fish - The Mekong River flows 5,000 kilometers from China to Vietnam. China'...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
Living Planet 08/21/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Whose outdoors is it anyway? - The outdoor community hasn't always had a good record when it comes to diversity. This w...

Bought by WFIU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KRZA, and WXDU


  • Added: Aug 23, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
604-Comet Rankin
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: The Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona captured this image of Comet NEAT on May 7, 2004. , Credit: NASA
There may be as many as a trillion small icy objects in the Oort cloud near the outer edge of our solar system. Very rarely one of these frozen ice...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KSFR and more


  • Added: Aug 21, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
IE: Inside Europe, 8/21/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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This week on the show: The EU walks a fine line in its reaction to unrest in Belarus. UK government climbs down over algorithm used to calculate s...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
Living Planet 08/14/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: The dam problem - We take a deep dive into rivers and look at how mega-dams affect ecosystems. We'll also find out why t...

Bought by WXDU, WFIU, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Aug 16, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Living Planet 08/07/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Cleaner cities, cleaner crops - We discover the benefits of city trees and visit one of the world's largest urban farms i...

Bought by WXDU, WFIU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and KRZA


  • Added: Aug 09, 2020
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 4
602-Solar Flares
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Some stars can have flares which can cause them to more than double in brightness in a few minutes. Fortunately our Sun does not do that and the Ea...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, WTIP and more


  • Added: Aug 07, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
Living Planet 07/31/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Endangered, in danger - How this year was again deadly for environmental defenders, dehorning rhinos to save them, and p...

Bought by WFIU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Aug 02, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
601-Phaethon's Child
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Phaethon (Faith on) is a strange, 4 mile diameter, blueish asteroid. It travels on an orbit which comes so close to the Sun that its exterior is h...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jul 31, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
Living Planet 07/24/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Cleaning up our closets - Fast fashion can be harmful for the planet — from its origin until the end of its lifecycle. So...

Bought by WFIU and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Jul 26, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
600-Big and Close
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groeller was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Pegasus with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Ariz...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Simply Beautiful, WLPR , WTIP and more


  • Added: Jul 24, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Living Planet 07/17/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Can't see the forest … … for the trees? We head to old-growth forest in eastern Australia, where indigenous communities a...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KRZA, and WFIU


  • Added: Jul 17, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
200717: John Kerry: The Global Dynamics of Decarbonization, 7/17/2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The COVID-19 crisis is expected to decrease U.S. carbon emissions by 7.5% in 2020 — exactly the rate needed globally to meet the climate goals outl...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
2020-07-17 John Kerry: The Global Dynamics of Decarbonization
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The COVID-19 crisis is expected to decrease U.S. carbon emissions by 7.5% in 2020 — exactly the rate needed globally to meet the climate goals outl...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, WMUU-LP, WUTC, KSQD Santa Cruz, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Jul 16, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
Living Planet 07/10/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Biodiversity vs. extinction - Although the diversity of plants and animals on Earth is crucial for our survival, humans...

Bought by WFIU and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Jul 12, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for July 8, 2020
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Netanyahu Rushes Plan to Illegally Annex Palestinian West Bank Land Before...

Bought by WKPW


  • Added: Jul 08, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Living Planet 07/03/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Splish, splash, comeback! - We hear about how some aquatic animals are undergoing a revival: Record numbers of sea turt...

Bought by WFIU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and KRZA


  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
596-Next Solar Cycle
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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If the current trend in 11 year solar cycles for the past 50 years continues, we can expect lower than average solar activity and the Earth will...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jun 25, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Living Planet 06/19/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Must civilization end? - To save the Earth, people like radical environmentalist Derrick Jensen advocate ending civilizati...

Bought by WFIU, KRZA, and WRGY


  • Added: Jun 20, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 3
595-Monster Comet C/2020 H2 (Pruyne)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Teddy Pruyne was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Pegasus with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizon...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jun 19, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 13

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