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Episode 1: A New Disaster
From: David Levin
Series: The Loop: Stories from the Gulf
Caption: Researchers prepare to take samples of the ocean floor using a multicore device.
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
Dr. John Smol, one of the world's top Arctic researchers, studies climate change through lake sediment samples
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Buck Benson spoke recently with Prof. John Smol of Queen's University in Ontario about his work in paleolimnology, or the study of lake sedi...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 18:56
  • Purchases: 1
242: Ocean Relevance
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Crew members aboard SS Norco in England during WWII. , Credit: The Marstal Maritime Museum
Maritime Museums are one of the key conduits for modern day understanding of maritime history, yet many are struggling. In this episode of World Oc...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2013
  • Length: 05:19
What's Neonicotinoid? Hint: It has to do with Bees
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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What’s the buzz around bees? Bees and beekeeping are incredibly popular, which is great because bees are dying in crazy numbers and they are the pr...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 29, 2013
  • Length: 03:04
  • Purchases: 1
Upstream
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Atlantic salmon numbers are dropping all over the world. In the US, they can only be found in seven rivers. All of them are in Maine.

  • Added: Aug 07, 2013
  • Length: 05:54
231: Water, Water Everywhere
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Fresh water as a resource is under constant threat by over-consumption, toxins, pollutants and waste from industrial and agricultural production. I...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2013
  • Length: 05:06
Weathering the Storm: A History of Extreme Weather [rebroadcast]
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: Detail from Collier’s magazine cover, May 28th, 1954, Credit: Smithsonian Institution
100 years ago this week, the thermometer in Death Valley, California, hit the highest temperature ever recorded anywhere in the world: 134°F. This ...

Bought by WUFT, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WRIR, Louisville Public Media, WTJU and more


  • Added: Jul 12, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Pet Friendly: A History of Domestic Animals
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: Photograph c1870, by Henry Pontier
America is a pet-owning nation. Over 60% of households, in fact, possess some sort of furry or feathered friend, and we spend over $50 billion a ye...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, KTNA, WFAE, WXXI Rochester, Northeast Indiana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 05, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 12
Federalizing Floods
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Host Brian Balogh talks with sociologist Karen O’Neill about the federal government’s move into flood control in 1917 – as landowners along the Mis...

Bought by WOUB, Radio Newark, KHNS, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 17, 2013
  • Length: 05:29
  • Purchases: 4
Author Michael Pollan and "Cooked"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Food guy Michael Pollan’s new book is “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation.” He is a personable, well-spoken walking encyclopedia of Ameri...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jun 14, 2013
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 2
That Lawless Stream: A History of the Mississippi River
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: The city of New Orleans (detail), c1885, Credit: Library of Congress
The Mississippi River is central to the American landscape and imagination. And for centuries, it has served as a battlefield in which our most com...

Bought by WUFT, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, XRAY.fm, KBRP Community Radio, KUOW and more


  • Added: Jun 14, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
The Honeybees Are Alright
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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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
Great Lakes increasingly threatened due to pollution from plastics
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Bob Carter spoke recently with Dr. Lorena M. Rios Mendoza, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Superior, about her research into poll...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2013
  • Length: 15:42
Does Portland Oregon’s TriMet Unfairly Cut Service for the Poor?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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When you think of modern, green, public transportation, a city that likely comes to mind is Portland, Oregon. Portland has built a reputation worl...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2013
  • Length: 08:45
Nitrogen: the Element Behind All Your Food
From: Generation Anthropocene
Series: Generation Anthropocene
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Biologist Peter Vitousek discusses the serious impacts humankind has had on the nitrogen cycle and how that relates to our food system. He expands ...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2013
  • Length: 26:12
Climate Change Activist Al Gore and "The Future"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Former US Vice President Al Gore is perhaps the best known poster boy for climate change. Both a winner of a Nobel prize along with an Oscar, he ta...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 23, 2013
  • Length: 09:43
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Martha Herbert Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 1 in 88 children have been identified with an autism spectrum disorder (...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
Coal Train Scoping Process
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
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James Wells and Nicole Brown of Whatcom County explain the Scoping process of the Environmental Impact Statement for the Cherry Point Coal Terminal...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 27:59
Climate Solutions Addresses Coal Export
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
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Ginny Wolff speaks with Ross Macfarlane, Sr. Advisor for Climate Solutions, about coal export in Washington and Oregon, particularly the terminal p...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 27:58
How the Dept of Energy is Spending Your Money
From: Green Connections Radio
Series: Green Connections Radio
Caption: Joan Michelson (l) of Green Connections Radio and Jaime Carlson (r) of the US Dept of Energy
Curious about how the Dept of Energy is spending your money? Where did all those billions in Recovery Act money go? What financial incentives are t...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2012
  • Length: 21:26
What To Do Today to Reduce Energy Consumption
From: Green Connections Radio
Series: Green Connections Radio
Caption: Kate Gordon of The Center for the Next Generation
Energy policy expert Kate Gordon of The Center for the Next Generation talks about what state and local governments, as well as Congress and the Pr...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2012
  • Length: 28:18
America the Possible
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: James Gustave Speth
Average Americans are painfully aware of the challenges we face as a nation – joblessness, failing schools, declining health, intractable poverty, ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 1
Heading to Hell in a Handbasket
From: Generation Anthropocene
Series: Generation Anthropocene
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Paul Ehrlich, author of the iconic book The Population Bomb, reflects on the history of environmentalism and his gloomy outlook for the future. [Ep...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 46:21
Earth's Tipping Points & Abrupt Climate Change
From: Generation Anthropocene
Series: Generation Anthropocene
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Richard Alley, a climate researcher and the host of PBS’s Earth: The Operators’ Manual, discusses rapid changes in Earth’s climate through history ...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 27:55
Are you afraid of climate change?
From: Generation Anthropocene
Series: Generation Anthropocene
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Michael Shellenberger addresses climate change through the eyes of his Breakthrough Institute and offers up some ideas that some see as controversi...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 19:48

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