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There are many ways to handle neighborhood flooding, beyond pumping stations and sewers. Some cities have realized that skate parks, of all places,...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 04:39
What would you do if you were headmistress of a school with no water--none for drinking, none for cleaning, none for flushing, none? Here is the st...
- Added: May 14, 2014
- Length: 19:41
They’re called bunker up north, and Pogies here in the South, and are sometimes referred to as “The Most Important Fish In the Sea”. These are the ...
- Added: Apr 11, 2014
- Length: 04:48
Almost 30 million Americans live a mile or more away from a supermarket. That may not sound very far, but for the five million plus who don’t have ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 04:33
- Purchases: 1
The success of Bay Area Bike Share depends on one place: downtown San Francisco. Back in August, the program. made a well-calculated gamble and stu...
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 07:24
Coal is embedded into the culture and image of Eastern Kentucky, but the industry is declining in the region. And it's declining permanently. The c...
- Added: Dec 12, 2013
- Length: 18:17
If you drive north from San Francisco and through most of Marin County, you get to the town of Novato. Turn east from Highway 101 and you run into ...
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 04:39
Biologist Steve Murawski is leading a new team of researchers trying to figure out the long-term impact of the Deepwater Horizon spill—not just on ...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Nov 05, 2013
- Length: 08:03
- Purchases: 1
You might have heard about CleanPowerSF. It’s a program that would allow San Franciscans to choose where their electricity comes from. This model o...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 10:39
When we think of garage scientists, the eccentric, gray-haired Dr. Emmett Brown from Back to the Future might come to mind. But these days, garages...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 08:47
- Purchases: 1
Hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as “fracking,” could be a revenue bonanza for California. The nation’s largest reserve of deep-rock oil is in ...
- Added: Sep 02, 2013
- Length: 08:33
From: Free Speech Radio News
In Canada, people are rallying to support an Indigenous community in northern British Columbia that is claiming its sovereignty over the land and m...
- Added: Jul 17, 2013
- Length: 05:39
90% of the world's goods are carried by cargo ships. And the oceans they sail on are streaming with wind: High tech wing sails used on America's Cu...
Bought by Hark!, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WTIP, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 15, 2013
- Length: 06:41
- Purchases: 5
New Bedford Harbor ranks among the worst harbors in the country for surface oil spills. Harbor officials and environmental groups can’t even agree ...
- Added: Jun 03, 2013
- Length: 06:50
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
From: Ashley Murray
Hussein Aladdin is an Iraqi refugee who settled in Pittsburgh with his wife Iman Ali and their three sons. He is now managing lung cancer and memor...
- Added: Mar 22, 2013
- Length: 04:18
In Ohio, some of the best pockets of oil and gas in the East run right under Amish country. Reid Frazier found the drilling boom is confronting the...
- Added: Mar 11, 2013
- Length: 06:37
Gas prices in California are always a big problem. And this year, the average price per gallon is set to hit four dollars – the highest average eve...
- Added: Jan 14, 2013
- Length: 05:10
In this episode First half: : a fable from the future told now..based on half remembered tales of the past and present.
Second half: excerpts from...
- Added: Dec 06, 2012
- Length: 57:19
Picture a slimy seaweed thicket – each plant a dark gold-brown, with a strong spine – wrapping around ropes, chains, and other sea life. This is Un...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 06:13
- Purchases: 2
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss the New York Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance and their exemplary five-point st...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Nov 28, 2012
- Length: 06:56
- Purchases: 1
From Santa Monica to Seattle, several cities on the West Coast have enacted sit/lie laws. San Francisco began enforcing its Sit/Lie Ordinance in Ma...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Nov 02, 2012
- Length: 06:19
- Purchases: 1
In February, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved the expansion of an existing ban on plastic, single-use bags to apply to restaurants, ...
- Added: Oct 22, 2012
- Length: 07:57
KALW's Angela Johnston goes fishing for answers about varying costs of seafood.
- Added: Oct 21, 2012
- Length: 05:59
A recent release of an environmental report provides insight in to the Mississippi River's condition.
- Added: Oct 12, 2012
- Length: 05:18