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Lueken’s Grocery Embracing 21st Century Ideas

From: Zach Wenzel

Brent Sicard, President and CEO of Lueken’s Village Foods grocery stores, announced plans for the local chain to grow and sell its own produce, as ...

Added: Apr 23, 2013
Length: 20:16

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

99% Invisible #53- The Xanadu Effect (Standard 4:30 version)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)

Can a building be too big to fail?

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Spokane Public Radio, WOUB, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service and more

Added: Aug 28, 2012
Length: 04:30
Purchases: 17

Keep Warm & Cut Your Costs: How$martKY

From: WMMT
Series: Making Connections

Because of historically cheap energy rates and lots of poorly insulated housing, Kentuckians’ average home electricity use is one of the highest in...

Added: Jul 18, 2012
Length: 12:49

State Fireworks Ban Doesn't Stop Fireworks Sales

From: Colorado News Connection

ARAPAHOE COUNTRY, Colo. - Tents and makeshift stores selling holidays goods have popped up throughout Colorado in the past few weeks leading up to ...

Added: Jul 02, 2012
Length: 01:45

Hazard Alert Issued for Silica Exposure in Fracking

From: Wyoming News Service

CASPER, Wyo. - A federal study of the use of silica in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in oil and gas fields found that workers are sometimes ov...

Added: Jun 26, 2012
Length: 02:07

Report: NC Sea Levels Rising Faster

From: North Carolina News Service

CAPE HATTERAS, N.C. - Scientists say the waters are rising fast off the coast of North Carolina as a result of climate change. A new report publish...

Added: Jun 26, 2012
Length: 01:53

Oil Shale Development: A Threat to CO Water?

From: Colorado News Connection

DENVER - A group of Front Range water providers is worried that the Bureau of Land Management's oversight of potential water use by oil shale compa...

Added: Jun 18, 2012
Length: 02:01

Farm Bill: Some Good, Some Bad for California

From: California News Service

The U.S. Senate is taking up the Farm Bill, which will set the nation's food policy for the next five years.

Added: Jun 06, 2012
Length: 01:34

Fracking Hearing Comes to Colorado

From: Colorado News Connection

The House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources holds a field hearing in Denver this week on proposed federal regulations for the process kn...

Added: Apr 30, 2012
Length: 01:50

Williamsburg Environmental & Community Based Activism

From: War News Radio

Williamsburg Environmental Activism

Added: Mar 20, 2012
Length: 07:33

Arctic Ice Melt

From: With Good Reason
Series: news features

In recent years, sea ice in the Arctic has been melting at an alarming rate, and scientists are asking why. The science community has recently take...

Bought by KENW and New Hampshire Public Radio

Added: Aug 24, 2011
Length: 02:29
Purchases: 2

The Guardian's Science Weekly: The birds and the bees (x-rated version)

From: [redacted] [redacted]

Caption: Sex poster at Natural History Museum, Credit: Andy Duckworth

WARNING: contains frank details about animal sex... please listen and approve before broadcasting. We reveal nature's most bizarre and intimate se...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Feb 13, 2011
Length: 39:24
Purchases: 1

Newmarket: Birthplace of American horseracing faces threat to 350-year tradition

From: Liz Ruskin

Stand on a street corner at dawn in Newmarket, England and you'll see a spectacle unique in the world: 3,000 racehorses parade through town every d...

Added: Apr 22, 2010
Length: 05:38

Tasmanian Devil on the Brink of Extinction

From: Jake Warga

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

Hot Summer, Broken Air Conditioner

From: Rene Gutel

Caption: Russ Wichterman, an air conditioner service technician in Gilbert, Arizona on the rounds., Credit: Rene Gutel

It's 115 degrees and your air conditioner is busted. Who do you call?

Bought by KVMR and KUOW

Added: Jul 29, 2009
Length: 03:30
Purchases: 2

One School District's Unlikely Solution to Budget Woes...Crayfish

From: Youth Radio

Like many public school systems, Oakland Unified School District was facing serious budget shortfalls when it devised a system to save more than 20...

Bought by KUOW