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This week on the show: In some parts of the world, access to water is as simple as turning on the tap. But for many people that's not an option. T...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Send in the bots! - Right now, hundreds of power plants around the world are splitting atoms. But when a reactor malfunc...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jul 10, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The new climate reality means that even those living on a hill will be affected by flooding in the valley, and those living in the North will be af...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
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Produce, consume, discard; we all know the routine. Raw materials are extracted, produced into goods, and used -- sometimes only once -- before tur...

Bought by WJCT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KWIT, WCQS, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Jun 20, 2019
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 10
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This week on the show: Bolivia's water woes - Bolivia has been dealing with torrential rains and landslides, but is suffering from a lack of dri...

Bought by WRGY, KRZA, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WFIU


  • Added: Jun 20, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
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This week on the show: What's left of the Amazon? - The Amazon Basin is the largest rainforest area in the world. Countless animal and plant s...

Bought by WRGY, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WFIU


  • Added: Jun 13, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
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We’ve all heard that hopping on a plane is one of the worst things we can do for the climate. So how do we justify the environmental costs of world...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
Caption: Icebergs at Sunset, Greenland, Credit: Lee Narraway, Students on Ice 2017
We’ve all heard that hopping on a plane is one of the worst things we can do for the climate. So how do we justify the environmental costs of world...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KWIT, and NPR Now


  • Added: Jun 05, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 4
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Our city's economy – what is it for? New York's has been very good at piling up profits and building tall buildings. But all that private profit ha...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: May 28, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: South Valley Academy 8th Graders & Teacher Jen Chavez Miller, Credit: Katie Stone
Albuquerque 8th graders get a life changing wilderness education, and Kids Crewmember Julia interviews author Kwame Alexander

Bought by KQRU FM LP, WLRH, WXPR, and WCNY


  • Added: May 24, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 4
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The Green New Deal is shaking up climate politics in Washington. The resolution’s ambitious clean energy goals are championed by several leading De...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, WMUU-LP, KFCF FM, KVMR and more


  • Added: May 16, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 8
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The Green New Deal is shaking up climate politics in Washington. The resolution’s ambitious clean energy goals are championed by several leading De...

  • Added: May 16, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
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PG&E has had a bad few years. A series of record-breaking wildfires culminating with 2018’s devastating Camp Fire propelled the California utility ...

  • Added: May 02, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
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PG&E has had a bad few years. A series of record-breaking wildfires culminating with 2018’s devastating Camp Fire propelled the California utility ...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, WMUU-LP, KFCF FM, WLPR and more


  • Added: May 02, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 8
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This week on the show: Brazil's new President Jair Bolsonaro has been vocal in not caring much about protecting the world's largest rainforest. M...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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How far would you go to make your voice heard on climate change? College student Tim DeChristopher disrupted an auction for oil and gas leases - an...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KZYX, XRAY.fm, and KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Apr 16, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 4
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Despite having the top-selling luxury car in 2018, and a loyal if not rabid customer base, Tesla has been facing major challenges. In August, maver...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
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Despite having the top-selling luxury car in 2018, and a loyal if not rabid customer base, Tesla has been facing major challenges. In August, maver...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, KUOW, WMRA, MPR News Stations and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 14
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Will Tarleton trims his first Hemp plant of the season.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2019
  • Length: 58:00
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The last five years have been the hottest on record globally. But this past winter, plunging temperatures, snowstorms and torrential rains througho...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
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The last five years have been the hottest on record globally. But this past winter, plunging temperatures, snowstorms and torrential rains througho...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, KUHF, KFCF FM, NPR Now and more


  • Added: Mar 05, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 11
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Fighting climate change isn’t cheap. Where’s the money coming from? Major philanthropic organizations like Hewlett and Bloomberg are at the forefro...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, WMUU-LP, KFOI Radio, NPR Now and more


  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 7
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Fighting climate change isn’t cheap. Where’s the money coming from? Major philanthropic organizations like Hewlett and Bloomberg are at the forefro...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
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Climate change isn’t just an environmental problem – it’s also a health hazard. Air pollution and changing weather patterns give rise to heat-relat...

Bought by WJCT, KICI Iowa City, KPIP-LP, KMXT, KWIT and more


  • Added: Jan 07, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 9
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The math is clear: lowering greenhouse gas emissions is not enough to keep the earth below 1.5 degrees Celsius of post-industrial warming. The late...

Bought by WJCT, KBBI Alaska, KVMR, Gallatin Valley Community Radio, WKAR and more


  • Added: Dec 27, 2018
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 11