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233-Tiny Visitor
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An SUV sized asteroid is a frequent visitor to our neighborhood.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KRWG and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
231-Hot Hand
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Three potentially hazardous asteroids are discovered in rapid succession.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KRWG and more


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
230-Close Or Not
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An Earth approaching object once again comes within range of our telescopes.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KRWG and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
226-Cosmic Campground
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Cosmic Campground is one of the last places where one can experience the natural night sky in the lower 48.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KRWG and more


  • Added: Feb 11, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
After Disaster: Picking up the pieces in an age of climate change
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Hwy 175 between Cobb and Middletown, Credit: Laura Flynn
On this edition of Making Contact we explore the social and psychological costs of climate change, and the weight of inaction.

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Feb 10, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Fire fighters respond to psychological after effects of Typhoon Haiyan
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Firefighters in Tacloban, Philippines , Credit: Aurora Almendral
On November 8, 2013, the Philippines was hit with the strongest storm ever to make landfall in recorded history. Typhoon Haiyan left a wake of deat...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 10, 2016
  • Length: 07:43
  • Purchases: 1
Fathoming Water Episode 2: Dr. Robert Glennon
From: KXCI
Series: Fathoming Water: In-Depth Discussions
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In this episode Dr. Glennon talks about how water markets work in the United States. We take a look back at the American legal history that makes w...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 09, 2016
  • Length: 38:24
  • Purchases: 1
Charlie Mylie (Walking The Border)
From: Matt Hodapp
Series: Paris of the Plains Podcast
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Borders separate us, but they also define us. Creating your identity means defining what you are in relation to what you are not. This episode is a...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 29:31
More on Water
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Fresh water is the topic of discussion once again on World Ocean Radio. In this episode host Peter Neill re-asserts the gravity of the global fresh...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2016
  • Length: 05:02
222-A Haul
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My team the Catalina Sky Survey discovered a very diverse group of 566 Earth approaching objects.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KRWG and more


  • Added: Jan 28, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
221-Human Geological Epoch
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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We humans are writing a record of our activities into the rock layers currently being produced on planet Earth.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KRWG and more


  • Added: Jan 28, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
"Articulating Social Justice" in Bemidji
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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Tonight, at the Rail River Folk School in Bemidji, there will be an important conversation. It’s called “Articulating Social Justice,” the second i...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2016
  • Length: 09:16
Episode 6: In The Beginning, God Created The Heavens And The Earth And The Allosaurus
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Erin Jones thought the answers were written in stone. But a summer internship at a remote dinosaur quarry eroded her certainty.

Bought by KUER, KSFR, and KRZA


  • Added: Jan 21, 2016
  • Length: 13:09
  • Purchases: 3
Voices Of Gentrification Paint A Picture Of A Changing Seattle
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Caption: PRX default Piece image
RadioActive's Paul Kiefer and Lola Garcia collect the voices of people affected by gentrification in Seattle to paint a picture of our changing city.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 13:23
  • Purchases: 1
The Speed of Sound: Jose Gonzalez
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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Jose Gonzalez released his 3rd full length, Vestiges and Claws, earlier this year, showcasing a more stripped down sound for the Swedish songwriter...

Bought by KUCB, KSUT, KHNS, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Dec 14, 2015
  • Length: 07:00
  • Purchases: 4
Phil Holtan: Master Wood Turner
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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Have you ever looked at a rotten oak burl and thought, “Man, that’s beautiful?” Phil Holtan has. Plenty of times. Phil is a master wood turner in ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Dec 07, 2015
  • Length: 12:37
  • Purchases: 1
After a flood, solving the mystery of water
From: Jenny Chen
Caption: 2013 flood in Estes Park, Credit: Town of Estes Park
Recent floods in Texas and Oklahoma cost the country over $3 billion in economic losses. In some areas of the country, floods are growing in intens...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 23, 2015
  • Length: 08:45
  • Purchases: 1
Benham Farm
From: renee wilde
Series: Farmland Preservation
Caption: Jerry Benham and Stanley McMurray, Credit: renee wilde
Jerry and Jane Benham own a Century Farm that they have preserved for the next generation of farming.

  • Added: Nov 19, 2015
  • Length: 04:23
Vivienne Morgan Photographs What We No Longer See
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Caption: Vivienne Morgan: Nature/Nurture/Typology/ Beltrami County, Cumbria
Close your left eye. Now close your right eye. See how everything shifts? That’s Vivienne Morgan’s approach to photography. Vivenne talked with Are...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Nov 13, 2015
  • Length: 12:55
  • Purchases: 1
Cornucopian Myth: William Catton #107
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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“The age of growth and the age in which growth is going to be considered a good thing is coming to an end.” The late sociologist William R. Catton ...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Bandon Community Radio, KCMJ Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 06, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 6
Hospice and Near Term Human Extinction
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious continues its series on near term human extinction in a conversation about applying hospice treatment towards the dying planet and hu...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
Cruel Hoax: Stephanie Mills #106
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Stephanie Mills made headlines in the Spring of 1969 when she vowed, in her commencement address (titled The Future is a Cruel Hoax), to conceive n...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Bandon Community Radio, KCMJ Community Radio, WMUU-LP, and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 29, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 5
The hidden afterlife of a sperm whale skeleton
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: A dead sperm whale in Pacifica's Mori Point, Credit: Hannah Kingsley-Ma
Back in April, a 48 foot-long sperm whale was found on a beach in Pacifica called Mori Point. A lot of people had gathered around the whale to bear...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Sep 18, 2015
  • Length: 08:29
  • Purchases: 1
Ecological Amnesia – Winona LaDuke #104
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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“I don’t think there’s a lot of excuses, frankly, for not doing the right thing.” Anishinaabe orator, author, economist and activist Winona LaDuke ...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, Bandon Community Radio, KCMJ Community Radio, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 8
A Progressive Environmentalist
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Cecelia Tichi
Jack London is known for his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North. But, that’s overlooking the real story. London was a reporter who made n...

Bought by KVSC, KPVL, and KCBX


  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3

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