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Caption: David Ho
Carbon offsets are often touted as a solution to humanity’s bad habit of emitting an awful lot of CO2. But how many of us actually know what things...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Oct 28, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Rethinking conservation (rebroadcast). We head to South Africa, Kenya and Namibia to look at different ways conservation has...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and Radio Kansas


  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Did you see any of the celebrity-backed ads for the slew of now defunct crytpo businesses? Did they leave you scratching your head at the time? It ...

Bought by KMUN and WORT


  • Added: Oct 24, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on the show: On Saturday, in the early morning hours of October 7th, Hamas terrorists fired thousands of rockets into Israel and stormed ...

Bought by WFHB and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Oct 12, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series
My guest today, Dr. Noah Whiteman, tells us to scratch beneath the surface of a coffee bean, a red pepper flake, a poppy seed, a mold spore, a foxg...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2023
  • Length: 35:16
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This week on the show: Peat is big business and great for farming. But it's also an increasing climate problem. Because when taking it out of wetla...

Bought by WFHB, WXDU, and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Oct 04, 2023
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Chathu Gamage
Humans have been making steel in some form or other for over two millennia - and consistently re-using and recycling it along the way. This week on...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Dan Dicker
It's hard not to notice how sky high gas prices are these days. Perhaps the universe is trying to tell us something about our personal transportati...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series
It is rare for life to change Earth, yet three organisms have profoundly transformed our planet over the long course of its history. Elemental reve...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2023
  • Length: 41:55

  • Added: Sep 21, 2023
  • Length: 30:37
Caption: Ziv Aviram
Have you ever thought about what you'd do to save the planet if you were a billionaire? Well, this week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with billiona...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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This week on the show: The growing microplastics problem. Microplastics have been found everywhere — from the deepest parts of the ocean to the hei...

Bought by WFHB, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and Radio Kansas


  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: James Martinez
Did you know that over 100,000 tennis balls are used in an average grand slam tournament? And unfortunately, they cannot be recycled. Given the ple...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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This week on the show: We hear from people in California whose home insurers have left them in the lurch as weather extremes intensify in the state...

Bought by Radio Kansas and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Sep 08, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: John Stoehr
If you’ve happened to tune in to MSNBC or CNN on a day when a massive hurricane is not pummeling a coastal region, you might think that the only ma...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Neel Dhanesha
This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak to environmental reporter Neel Dhanesha of Heatmap to learn about his new media startup, discuss the landma...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jon Goldstein
In discussions about climate change we talk a lot about carbon dioxide, and with good reason. But did you know that per molecule, methane actually ...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Alex Kotch
They say charity is a virtue, but sometimes it’s a little more complicated. The donor advised fund or DAF, has been a financial instrument for char...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Joseph McFadden
Did you know that India accounts for about one-third of the world’s one billion head of cattle? Last week on Sea Change Radio, we spoke to the head...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: David Messina
When we think about greenhouse gas emissions, automobiles, airplanes, and power plants usually figure more prominently than livestock. The methane ...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Nithin Coca
The new generation of veggie burgers do taste more like meat than their sawdust-leaning predecessors. And most agree that plant-based meat alternat...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Lloyd Alter
For some time now, ecologists and environmentalists have been promoting life-cycle analyses – calculations of the environmental impact of a product...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Chuck Collins
The novelist David Foster Wallace once said, “Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” This week on Sea Change ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: John Platt
When you visit the World Wildlife Fund’s list of critically endangered species, the first animals named are large, beloved mammals like the African...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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This week on the show: Water woes & how to combat water scarcity. What do you do if there isn't enough fresh drinking water around? According to th...

Bought by WBAA, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and Radio Kansas


  • Added: Aug 24, 2023
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 3