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Monroe County residents who live near the future path of Interstate 69 are reporting their local waterways are being contaminated. In recent weeks ...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2013
  • Length: 08:05
Caption: The Bulkley River in British Columbia., Credit: Wikipedia user Heqs
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
Caption: Salvatore Angelica and Susanna Bianco of Gigi Bianco winery explain their various Slow Wines at a Rome tasting, Credit: Nancy Greenleese
The Slow Food movement has changed how we eat in the last quarter century. The Italian organization encourages us to dine on flavorful and health...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2013
  • Length: 04:04
Caption: Wing sails on San Francisco Bay, Credit: Jason Albert
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
Caption: New Bedford Harbor, Credit: Derek Hawkins (cc)
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
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WFHB correspondent Norm Holy speaks to Indiana Department of Natural Resources Property Manager Jim Allen, about the ecological issues surrounding ...

  • Added: May 24, 2013
  • Length: 08:35
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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In today’s EcoReport feature, Indiana Department of Natural Resources Property Manager Jim Allen discusses ecological and other issues surrounding ...

  • Added: May 23, 2013
  • Length: 29:29
Caption: Dragonfly wearing a "telemetry backpack"
Why itsy-bitsy-teeny-weeny backpacks may be the key to understanding how animals capture prey.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 1
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For years, a mysterious “colony collapse disorder” has been killing honeybees across the nation. This year, commercial beekeepers have reported los...

Bought by KENW and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 07, 2013
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 2
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In this month’s show, we examine three issues that build on the relationship between environmental stresses and conflict. First, we examine the imp...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: May 03, 2013
  • Length: 40:01
  • Purchases: 1
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The ten most water-stressed countries in the world – gosh, it sounds like a bad Buzzfeed article - are all in the Middle East or North Africa. Yeme...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 03, 2013
  • Length: 08:12
  • Purchases: 1
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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In today’s EcoReport feature, IU Chemistry Professor Jonathan Raff talks about the air pollutants emitted by clothes dryers and other household sou...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2013
  • Length: 29:04
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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
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A class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids, or neonics, was recently implicated in the large numbers of honeybee deaths beekeepers have been exp...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 07:57
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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In today’s EcoReport feature, Local farmer and author Peter Bane talks about his new book dealing with the sustainable philosophy and practice of p...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2013
  • Length: 28:08
Caption: The Hartigan family’s journal is full of stamps and memories of their letterboxing outings in Virginia, Ireland, the Pacific Northwest and other destinations. , Credit: Nancy Greenleese
There is a breed of modern day treasure hunters who need the Internet, a knack for orienting and solving puzzles, and a sense of adventure. They w...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 28, 2013
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: A Chesapeake Energy rig in Carroll County, Ohio, where fracking is taking place in Amish communities. , Credit: Reid R. Frazier
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
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Air Occupy presents voices from the Forward on Climate Rally in Washington, D.C. on February 17. Interviews with rally participants and sounds fro...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2013
  • Length: 59:06
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Two potentially dangerous chemicals have been discovered at the Johnson Hardware Building on North Madison Street in downtown Bloomington. The vapo...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2013
  • Length: 08:58
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
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
Caption: Kevin Drum
The policy decisions we make today will have an impact on the next hundred years and beyond. It kind of makes you think, what policy decisions from...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: A Somali refugee drinks water from a well in the U.N. refugee camp of Dadaab, Kenya. In 2011, a severe drought plagued the region, forcing over one million Somalis to flee to neighboring countries.
For the millions of people living in the horn of Africa, global climate change is an everyday reality. The traditional rainy season in Northern Ken...

  • Added: Dec 28, 2012
  • Length: 05:54
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A new breed of bartenders calling themselves mixologists--with a little help from the TV show Mad Men--have put classic cocktails back on the bar. ...

Bought by KENW and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 14, 2012
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 2
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Greg Auger's life was forever changed when he met the bat researching legend Don Griffin. This is the story of the two men, a pond, and what happen...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2012
  • Length: 08:05