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This week on the show: A journey to Africa - Rwanda’s mountain gorillas were once headed for extinction. Their numbers are now slowly recove...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KUPR low power FM, and WFIU


  • Added: May 10, 2018
  • Length: 29:57
  • Purchases: 3
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On June 30, 1908 a celestial object exploded 28,000 feet above the Tunguska river drainage area in Siberia, Russia releasing the energy of 185 Hiro...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WTIP, KKRN and more


  • Added: May 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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LLiving Planet: Walk the Walk - On the show this week: Climate protection is on the agenda at talks in Bonn. But back home, who's really ta...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KRZA, KUPR low power FM, and WFIU


  • Added: May 03, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Leading experts in climate science and environmental research join WorldCanvass host Joan Kjaer to discuss the most pressing concerns facing Iowa...

Bought by KZUM


  • Added: May 02, 2018
  • Length: 28:38
  • Purchases: 1
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Leading experts in climate science and environmental research join WorldCanvass host Joan Kjaer to discuss the most pressing concerns facing Iowans...

Bought by KZUM


  • Added: May 02, 2018
  • Length: 19:45
  • Purchases: 1
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In the space of only four days, my Catalina Sky Survey teammates, Brian Africano, Alex Gibbs, and Greg Leonard, discovered three Potentially Hazard...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WTIP, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Apr 27, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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So far asteroid hunters have discovered about 8,000 of the 25,000, large, potentially hazardous asteroids, suspected to exist, leaving 17,000 more...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WTIP, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Apr 26, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Frustrated at the abysmal rate of adoption when seatbelts were introduced into cars in the 1960s, Jack Alpert quit his job as an automotive enginee...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Indie3 Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 4
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Theoretically, If an asteroid on a collision course with our planet could be slowed sufficiently it could be made to pass behind our planet as it o...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM, WLPR , KRWG and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard's discovery of, 2018 FO5, a three football field diameter asteroid that can come closer than our Moon ...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WLPR , WTIP, KKRN and more


  • Added: Apr 12, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Perhaps C/2018 F3 (Johnson) is an interstellar visiting Comet and is thus a sample of a place currently beyond our reach.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WTIP, KKRN, KSFR and more


  • Added: Apr 12, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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To give you an idea of the asteroid traffic in our neighborhood, on a mostly cloudy night, through holes in the clouds, in a space of less than 2 h...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KSFR, KUPR low power FM, Bandon Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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No civilization should head out into the world without “Doughnut Economics” in its survival kit. With her modernized thinking, economist Kate Rawor...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
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Tonight, even though the chances are extremely slim, an asteroid hunter could find a sizable asteroid on a collision course with planet Earth. If w...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WTIP, KKRN, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Mar 30, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
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The large dangerous asteroids that we don't know about are what keep asteroid hunters going to the telescope.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KSFR, KKRN, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Mar 30, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
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A partnership of humans and computers will help to minimize the damage when asteroid hunters find a space rock with our number on it.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KKRN, KRWG, and KUPR low power FM


  • Added: Mar 22, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Re-establishing our personal relationship with food and ending our role as commodity “consumers” is part of a healing, regenerative process. It’s a...

Bought by Indie3 Radio, KTRL, and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Mar 20, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
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Although no comet nucleus impact on the Earth has been conclusively identified, there is some evidence that suggests the 1908 Tunguska event in Rus...

Bought by KENW, KRWG, KKRN, KSFR, WTIP and more


  • Added: Mar 15, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
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In 2017 observers in 50 countries at 440 different observatories made nearly 19 million observations of asteroids and comets which enable scientist...

Bought by KENW, KRWG, KKRN, WTIP, and KUPR low power FM


  • Added: Mar 15, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Living Planet: Nuclear, post-Fukushima - Seven years on from Fukushima, we look at Japan's controversial efforts to send evacuees homes, and ba...

Bought by KRJF-lp, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KRZA, KVSC, WEJP-LP 107.1 and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 10
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During the only 3 clears hours of his first night solo as an asteroid hunter, my new Catalina Sky Survey teammate Brian Africano discovered two new...

Bought by KENW, KRWG, WTIP, KKRN, Bandon Community Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Living Planet: Surprise, surprise… Our planet is full of surprises, from burning ice to clever fish! Expect the unexpected on this week's episo...

Bought by KUPR low power FM, WFIU, and KMXT


  • Added: Mar 01, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Most scientists agree the current level of human population, in combination with present living arrangements, is damaging our ecosystems. But doing...

Bought by Indie3 Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Feb 27, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
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On December 25, 2017, while searching for Earth approaching asteroids in the constellation of Virgo, the Universe gave my Catalina Sky Survey teamm...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WTIP, WLPR , KKRN and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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The lonely asteroids which travel high above and far below most of the other members of our solar system may be made out of very strong materials a...

Bought by KENW, KRWG, WLPR , KSFR, KKRN and more


  • Added: Feb 15, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8