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A day at Herring River
From: Ben Harden
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Every spring, river herring return to the rivers and ponds of Cape Cod to spawn. They are met by a group of volunteers who, come rain or shine, sho...

Bought by Radio Newark and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 03, 2013
  • Length: 07:58
  • Purchases: 2
Backpacks... for Dragonflies?
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Dragonfly wearing a "telemetry backpack"
Why itsy-bitsy-teeny-weeny backpacks may be the key to understanding how animals capture prey.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 1
Tackling Q Fever and Other Camel Diseases in Kenya
From: Veronique LaCapra
Caption: At a ranch near Mpala, Margaret Kinnaird takes notes about a camel sick with trypanosomiasis as a herder looks on., Credit: Sharon Deem, Saint Louis Zoo
Camels are known for their ability to travel long distances across the desert without water. But they’re also becoming an increasingly important s...

  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 03:41
Rehabbing Raptors From Montana's Wild Skies
From: University of Montana Journalism
Caption: Brooke Tanner releases a healed saw-whet owl., Credit: Wild Skies Raptor Center
Brooke Tanner and Ken Wolff are different from one another. One's a young woman trying to start a huge project, the other's at the end of a long ca...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2013
  • Length: 03:08
Earth Day 2013
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Frances Moore Lappe
Author Frances Moore Lappe describes herself as a “possibilist” rather than an optimist or pessimist. In her recent book, she argues that solutions...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 15, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
120225 Saturday night in the French Quarter
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Three hours of music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. Collector's music so that you don't need to spend your adulthood in yo...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2013
  • Length: 02:55:29
The Food Shed
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Eric Toensmeier
This first part of this half-hour is spent with author and professor Philip Ackerman-Leist. In his new book, he shows that people are turning to lo...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KCBX


  • Added: Apr 04, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
Back From the Brink: Black-Footed Ferrets
From: University of Montana Journalism
Caption: Does this guy look extinct to you?, Credit: Wik
When a species goes extinct, that’s usually the end of the story. We don’t exactly have dinosaurs or dodo birds running around these days. But some...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Mar 28, 2013
  • Length: 04:11
  • Purchases: 1
Moorings and Traps
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Making a living is a struggle this year for Maine lobster fishermen - due in part to strong conservation regulations.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 06:45
  • Purchases: 1
Author Anthony Brandt and "The Man Who Ate His Boots"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Anthony, no stranger to faraway places himself, tells the harrowing history of the search for the Northwest Passage in "The Man Who Ate His Boots."...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 17, 2013
  • Length: 10:11
  • Purchases: 1
Sacred Acts (Pledge Drive)
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Mallory McDuff
Churches are taking diverse actions to address climate change through stewardship, advocacy, spirituality and justice. Contributions from leading C...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 12, 2013
  • Length: 19:57
  • Purchases: 1
What Price Water
From: Eileen McAdam
Caption: One of 10 signs around Ashokan Reservoir of towns that were leveled.
The construction of the Ashokan Reservoir and the Catskill Aqueduct to provide NYC with water has been likened to the building of the Panama Canal....

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 06:37
Tales from the South 113: Outsiders
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Season 8, 2013 Spring Season
Caption: Judith Gardner reads on Tales from the South
This week's stories are all about being outsiders. Stories by Judith Gardner, Frank Fusco, and Alan Reese. True stories told by the Southerners who...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Climate Change Activist Al Gore and "The Future"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Former US Vice President Al Gore is perhaps the best known poster boy for climate change. Both a winner of a Nobel prize along with an Oscar, he ta...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 23, 2013
  • Length: 09:43
  • Purchases: 1
Island Stories PEI Cradle on the Waves Part 7
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Calvin Jollimore and his daughter., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Prince Edward Island is known the world over for its mussels. Nothing quite like them and those produced on PEI account for 80 percent of all musse...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2013
  • Length: 27:06
Volunteers hunt for moose bones on Isle Royale (Part 2)
From: Michigan Radio
Series: Lessons from Isle Royale's Wolves & Moose
Caption: Moosewatch volunteer Dave Beck holds up a marked antler. Team leader Jeff Holden looks on. They mark the antlers and hang them in a tree so others know the antler has been found and documented., Credit: Mark Brush
Wolves and moose are at the heart of the world’s longest running study of a predator and its prey. The drama unfolds on Isle Royale National Park ...

Bought by Delta College Public Radio and WTIP


  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 2
Watching the lives of wolves and moose unfold on Isle Royale (Part 1)
From: Michigan Radio
Caption: Rolf Peterson on Caribou Island, one of more than 450 smaller islands in the national park's archipelago., Credit: Mark Brush
Researchers have studied the wolves and moose on a remote island archipelago in Lake Superior for 54 years. These days, the wolves are in trouble.

Bought by Delta College Public Radio and WTIP


  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Beat : Marsh Muirhead - "Thin Ice"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Marsh Muirhead, a writer, dentist, flight instructor, and much else besides, lives near Bemidji, MN on the banks of the Mississippi with his dog, S...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 01:55
The Beat: Athena Kildegaard - "On Juggler Lake"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Poet Athena Kildeagard, a University of Minnesota - Morris lecturer, looks deeply and metaphorically at a Blue Herring's stop in the poem "On Juggl...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 1
Technology's Promise
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor William E. Halal
There are no crystal balls. No one really knows the direction technology is going to take us. But, there are always those best guesses.

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Jan 08, 2013
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 2
Bartolo's Honey
From: Diane Bock
Caption: Yucatan Honey, Credit: John Bock
A hot, sticky day in the Yucatan.

  • Added: Dec 31, 2012
  • Length: 05:05
America the Possible
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: James Gustave Speth
Average Americans are painfully aware of the challenges we face as a nation – joblessness, failing schools, declining health, intractable poverty, ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 1
The Living Fossil
From: Veronica Simmonds
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Every drug we take is tested with crab blood. And it all started with a walk on a beach.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Dec 04, 2012
  • Length: 07:23
  • Purchases: 3
Into the Woods
From: Sam Dunnington
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My high school used to drop groups of kids off in the woods in order to teach them survival skills. There was no adult supervision.

  • Added: Dec 04, 2012
  • Length: 11:06
Nuclear Roulette
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Nuclear Roulette, Credit: cover design by Matthew Simmons
In his new book, Gar Smith dismantles the core arguments behind the nuclear industrial complex’s “Nuclear renaissance.” While some critiques are fa...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 27, 2012
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1

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