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We tagged along with some of the quiet heroes who, quite literally, go to great lengths to understand just how much water will come out of your tap.
Bought by Boise State Public Radio
- Added: Mar 18, 2014
- Length: 10:24
- Purchases: 1
Our physical health is intimately tied to environmental health, as well as to our emotional and spiritual ecology. Visionary physician Dr. Gabor Ma...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WCNY, WZEN.org, KKRN, KRZA and more
- Added: Feb 25, 2014
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 8
Conspicuous climate disruption is here now. At the same time, a global
super-elite of fossil fuel mega-billionaires has cinched a political strangl...
Bought by WCNY, Panhandle Community Radio, KKRN, KRZA, WMRT and more
- Added: Feb 25, 2014
- Length: 28:31
- Purchases: 8
Dale Peterson joins us to discuss chimpanzee behavior.
Bought by 'The Sea', 'The Sea', WMUU-LP, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KPVL
- Added: Feb 24, 2014
- Length: 27:44
- Purchases: 5
When it comes to the Myers-Briggs personality type test, are you an introvert or an extrovert? Do you focus on sensing, or do you use your intuitio...
- Added: Feb 08, 2014
- Length: 07:20
A discussion of the economic, social, and political consequences of environmental degradation on populations and governmental systems. Special gues...
- Added: Nov 14, 2013
- Length: 23:52
To what degree are we born a blank slate, and how much are we a result of our influence by our environment? Consensus: Nature or nurture is the wr...
- Added: Sep 27, 2013
- Length: 07:20
You’re about to hear a story about the bear whisperer of Lyme New Hampshire, Ben Kilham, and the abandoned black bear cubs he has rescued, rehabili...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Sep 25, 2013
- Length: 27:53
- Purchases: 1
Guess what kind of organism this is: There are billions of them in every bucket of the salty sea, some of them glow, and some are responsible for k...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 06:47
Pour light into liquid, keep a detector at the ready, and what do you get? Opportunities to keep constant track of the chemical and biological brew...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 09:50
A lot of people are talking about capturing the wind’s energy. But Jim Miller’s pointed his ears underwater, and it turns out that harnessing the w...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 07:46
The temperature in Antarctica is rising, and Hugh Ducklow is watching an entire ecosystem change before his eyes. What happens if the ice just keep...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 07:54
Autosubs look like giant yellow torpedoes. They cruise the ocean silently. But they’re watching, listening, probing, and measuring everything as th...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 08:01
Predicting how an entire body of water circulates is no easy task. To do it in Prince William Sound up in Alaska, it took 3 ships, teams deployed i...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 09:22
Twenty years ago, an environmental disaster rocked Prince William Sound in Alaska. Today, a team assembled from science, government and beyond is t...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 09:43
Climate change is impacting even one of the most remote places on Earth: Antarctica. Krill numbers are down, salp numbers are way up, and the entir...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Rutgers University students are piloting one tiny, yellow, torpedo-shaped glider across the Atlantic Ocean from New Jersey to Spain. The journey is...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 07:40
Sometimes understanding the vastness of the ocean means understanding the wee strands of DNA packed into the tiniest of cells, and how that DNA giv...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 08:36
When the tiniest of particles settle onto the deepest of ocean bottoms, they can have the biggest of influences. Fisheries collapse. Tsunamis. Ecos...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 08:38
Ocean observatories are radically changing not only the way scientists do their science, but also how they interact with one another and the wider ...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 09:17
Recording voices and composing music around those voices is one of Halsey Burgund’s specialties. And he’s got a new project where he’s collecting s...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 10:15
The Inner Space Center makes visiting the bottom of the ocean easier than going to the store. And by using some of the newest technology available,...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 09:11
Playing female right whale calls into the water, researcher Susan Parks suddenly finds herself at the center of attention of a group of males.
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 06:44
Little floats with GPS units are coursing all over the eastern seaboard, and they’re rousing community college students and lobstermen from bed at ...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 09:03
Living 1000 miles from the ocean is no reason to keep from learning everything you can about the high seas. At least that’s what high schoolers all...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 10:57