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Farming Underwater: Steve Mello’s Story
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Farmer Steve Mello has put down roots in “The Delta” in central California. But climate change is threatening the levees which protect Delta farms....

  • Added: May 04, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Prospect Park Interview #1
From: miranda loud
Series: Park Dreams
Caption: Park Dreams Logo, Credit: Miranda Loud
Miranda Loud interviews painter Gary Dunn on the edge of Brooklyn's Prospect Park - asking him to share his ideas about the role public parks play ...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2012
  • Length: 05:14
Dam Neighbors
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: Courtesy of the Maine Department of Transportation
Lynn Smith moved to Maine in hopes of retiring in peace - but there was one thing she hadn't counted on.

Bought by KUOW, PRX Remix, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 16, 2012
  • Length: 06:24
  • Purchases: 3
2/2/12 Food Sleuth Radio: Filmmaker Jeremy Seifert on Food Waste and GMOs
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, interviews Jeremy Seifert, documentary film maker. Learn about Seifert’s film about the tragedy of Am...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
Paula Hay
From: Erin Bosenberg
Series: SPACES
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Paula Hay Masters student of Social Anthropology Her SPACE - the train

  • Added: Apr 22, 2011
  • Length: 06:30
When Sheep Fly
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: Biologists attach a tracking collar to a blindfolded desert bighorn sheep. , Credit: Kamila Forson
When Elephant Mountain gets too crowded with desert bighorn sheep, and it’s time to start a new herd in Big Bend Ranch State Park, how do you move ...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Jan 26, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Encounters Solitude
From: Encounters: Radio Experiences in the North
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I want to be alone.... in the wilderness!

Bought by KHNS


  • Added: Jan 16, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Encounters Tide
From: Encounters: Radio Experiences in the North
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The tide waits for no man, even when that man is waiting fo for the tide!

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC


  • Added: Jan 16, 2011
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
Tom McCall, January 8, 1983
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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The true story of the first state to sponsor a rock concert ... nicknamed "the Governor's Pot Party"... and what became of that governor.

Bought by KLCC


  • Added: Dec 22, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Troubled Rio Grande
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: Giant cane dominates the muddy banks of the Rio Grande in many places., Credit: Megan Wilde
Sediment is slowly choking the Rio Grande in the Big Bend region of Texas, causing more frequent floods and making it easier for invasive plants to...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Nov 19, 2010
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Traveling Seeds
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: Maple seeds can fly with their papery propellers. , Credit: Cathryn Hoyt
You might think of plants as immobile, but they've evolved diverse strategies to scatter their offspring far and wide. What are some dispersal tact...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Nov 11, 2010
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Texas' Aspens
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: Quaking aspens in Big Bend National Park, Credit: James Zech
With their towering white trunks and fluttering leaves, quaking aspens are icons of the Rocky Mountains. Yet every fall, aspen stands paint West Te...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Nov 11, 2010
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Return of the Rio Grande Silvery Minnow
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: A Rio Grande silvery minnow, Credit: Aimee Roberson/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
These tiny fish disappeared from Texas almost fifty years ago. But today, silvery minnows swim again in the Big Bend reach of the Rio Grande. What ...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Nov 05, 2010
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Tasmanian Devil on the Brink of Extinction
From: Jake Warga
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Travels around Tasmania to learn about the fate of the little Devil

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 14, 2009
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 3
A Full Moon Night
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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One pagan’s ritual for the spring equinox.

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 07:46
  • Purchases: 1
A Fresh Catch
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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In recent decades, it’s gotten harder and harder for small fishermen and women to earn a living from the sea.

  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 06:35
The Dumpstering Life
From: Lisa Song
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Meet Charlotte, bioengineer by day, avid dumpster diver by night.

Bought by WILL, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: May 19, 2009
  • Length: 04:28
  • Purchases: 3
Loons
From: Encounters: Radio Experiences in the North
Series: Encounters
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Hear the haunting voices of the loon on a summer day with host Richard Nelson

Bought by KCHU, KTRT RADIO INC, KDUR, KMXT, WMNF and more


  • Added: Apr 29, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 6
Making Room For Shenandoah National Park
From: Jesse Dukes
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500 families were displaced from their homes to make space for the Shenandoah National Park

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WTJU, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WTJU and more


  • Added: Jun 12, 2008
  • Length: 06:45
  • Purchases: 6
Dumped Tires Land on Doorsteps
From: Zak Rosen
Caption: The finished product
Re-purposing dumped tires combats poverty, vacant lots, and environmental degredation

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 05, 2008
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 2
Invaders from Another Ecosystem
From: Making Contact
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We visit wetlands around the San Francisco Bay, where scientists are waging a scorched-marsh campaign against a devastating kind of East Coast grass.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
Stories from the Heart of the Land VI - Depending on Nature
From: Atlantic Public Media
Series: Stories from the Heart of the Land
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Hour-long program about the intersection of people and the natural world

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WFAE, KVNF, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Oct 12, 2007
  • Length: 54:04
  • Purchases: 26
Animals of Australia take a Hold
From: Ray Gard
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A Behind the scenes look at the Australian animals associated with the National Aquarium in Baltimore.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2007
  • Length: 09:55
Stories from the Heart of the Land IV - Nature is Homeground
From: Atlantic Public Media
Series: Stories from the Heart of the Land
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Hour long program about the intersection of people and the natural world

Bought by WFAE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUT, KOSU and more


  • Added: Aug 09, 2007
  • Length: 55:59
  • Purchases: 27
Stories from the Heart of the Land V - Dreams of Paradise
From: Atlantic Public Media
Series: Stories from the Heart of the Land
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Hour-long program about the intersection of people and the natural world.

Bought by WFAE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUT, KOSU and more


  • Added: Aug 09, 2007
  • Length: 55:29
  • Purchases: 27