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Two stories about resilience.
Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)
- Added: Jan 05, 2023
- Length: 50:00
- Purchases: 2
The botanical name of our 3 needle per fascicle (bundle) Chihuahuan pine is Pinus leiophylla var. chihuahuana. Further south into Mexico where the ...
- Added: Dec 21, 2022
- Length: 04:35
I grew and sold California buckthorn for several years. Early on I sold it wholesale to other nurseries, but I also sold it at Farmers Markets in C...
- Added: Dec 13, 2022
- Length: 04:18
Leslie Newton Goodding had a busy career. It was when he worked for the U. S. Department of Agriculture that he collected the type specimen for the...
- Added: Dec 07, 2022
- Length: 04:01
It was the American botanist Soreno Watson, that named the onion collected in Tanner’s Canyon of the Huachuca Mountains to honor Sara Plummer Lemmo...
- Added: Dec 07, 2022
- Length: 04:16
The endlessly cyclical nature of life is depicted as four different stories in a sleepy Italian village.
- Added: Dec 06, 2022
- Length: 03:28
This week on World Ocean Radio we're discussing COP27, the annual Conference of the Parties, that took place this year in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. W...
- Added: Nov 23, 2022
- Length: 05:19
I thought you’d like to see the fraction of the Galiuro Mountains (Galuros!)
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 05:00
It’s fun to have favorite plants to look for on excursions into the hills. Looking back at photos and my notes, we have been checking on this parti...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:23
What a fun discovery in the desert east of Douglas, Arizona. There is just something about these large spinescent shrubs in the buckthorn family, R...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:22
The genus Heuchera is found in the saxifrage family, Saxifracaceae, with 80 other genera that includes the genus Saxifraga and its 400 species. Yikes!
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:16
My morning ditties are not nearly as amazing as the song of a curved bill thrasher, but they help me begin the day.
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:23
There are a dozen species of Melampodium and I wonder which one Linnaeus was looking at when he honored Melampus with the genus name. And I wonder...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:28
It's true that every year I jump and shout about the fall blooming plants in the Aster family (Asteraceae) and I proclaim that there should be a fe...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:19
Fall gets me excited and fall color is a crazy combination of blooming plants and plants with leaves changing color as they prepare to go dormant. ...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 05:03
The botanical name for jackass clover is Wislizenia refracta and for clammy weed it’s Polanisia dodecandra. I translate those very cool names in th...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:00
The seventh chapter of the series, Carbon Valley.
Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 50:05
- Purchases: 1
The sixth chapter of the series, Carbon Valley.
Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 50:09
- Purchases: 1
This week on World Ocean Radio we discuss the disruption and potential sabotage of the Nord Stream Line, the underwater natural gas pipelines in th...
- Added: Oct 12, 2022
- Length: 04:57
The drums of Durga Puja, the biggest festival of the Kolkata calendar finally stopped beating last week.
But some are asking about such a big celeb...
Bought by KLCC
- Added: Oct 11, 2022
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
This week on World Ocean Radio we're talking about the circulation of water worldwide, and the importance of canals and waterways to bring us toget...
- Added: Oct 07, 2022
- Length: 05:15
Sometimes we go astray. But that’s all right, that’s our opposing nature, and we know how to get back on the right road. Not the “straight and narr...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Sep 30, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
This week on World Ocean Radio we're offering two extremely important ocean examples where the opposition of sovereignty and commonality collide. T...
- Added: Sep 29, 2022
- Length: 05:21
Cheetahs were declared extinct in India in 1952. Now they are being brought back from Africa.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 27, 2022
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
The fifth chapter of the series, Carbon Valley.
Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)
- Added: Sep 23, 2022
- Length: 49:09
- Purchases: 1