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Caption: Jacob Vigdor
Whether it be standardized testing, grades, extracurricular activities or personal essays, the question of how to level the playing field in educat...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Daniel Kammen
Most of us have never been there but according to a quick Google search, some of the things you might see at the bottom of the ocean include sea sp...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Jan 24, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Darren Samuelsohn
The self-proclaimed “greatest country on earth” is in an unfathomable position. Heavily favored to win the Republican Party’s nomination for presid...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Bob Berwyn
COP28, or the 28th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Climate Change Conference, took place recently in the United Arab...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
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It’s easy to take clean water for granted in America. But drought and decaying pipes mean it’s time to think differently about H2O.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KOWS, KMXT, KSTK, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 9
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Today, humanity is thriving, but there are fears the good times will not last. Will tomorrow be better than today? Those arguing “yes” say people h...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Dec 21, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: 12 Moms Initiative member Jamie describes water and mold damage to her home at the Coppertree Village Apartments to members of the National Low Income Housing Coalition during a bus tour hosted by Houston's housing justice organizers., Credit: Leah Mahan
Today in Houston, Texas we meet a group of moms who stand up for local housing policies that keep families of color trapped in unsafe homes for yea...

Bought by KMUN and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Dec 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Matt Simon
Last week on Sea Change Radio, we learned that the plastics industry plans to triple production in the next 40 years, reaching 3 trillion pounds of...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2023
  • Length: 29:00

  • Added: Dec 07, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Matt Simon
Look around you: at this very moment, chances are that within a one-foot radius of your body, there’s something plastic. The ubiquity of plastic co...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Image of Arctic Ice, Credit: Pink floyd88 a, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
In recent years, scientists have begun testing geoengineering technologies to slow down or even stop global warming. But, is geoengineering safe? A...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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
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Six out of nine planetary systems key to the survival of the human species are under threat. Is Earth still a safe operating space for human beings...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2023
  • Length: 58:33
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By age 25, a young Croatian had come down with a bad case of wanderlust. So much wanderlust that he lived out his days as a perpetual pedestrian, w...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Sep 14, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 2
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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Author and biologist Sandra Steingraber talks about the impact of fossil fuels on our oceans, ahead of the March to End Fossil Fuels.

  • Added: Sep 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:48
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: 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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KRCL's Lara Jones discusses the current emergency facing The Great Salt Lake with Brigham Young University Professor Greg Abbott.

  • Added: Aug 22, 2023
  • Length: 07:36

  • Added: Jul 20, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Jim Motavalli
According to the International Energy Agency, over 14 million electric vehicles, or EVs, are expected to be sold globally in 2023. If this is accur...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 31, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Chicago bungalow, Credit: Jim Roberts
Research is finding the answers Chicago needs to jumpstart wide scale equitable home electrification

Bought by WFHB and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Sasha Buchert
The passage of time has generally moved us in the direction of increased dignity and rights for members of the LGBTQ community in this country, wit...

  • Added: May 10, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Namrata Chowdhary
In the first decade of this century many of us learned that the threshold for keeping our planet healthy was 350 parts per million of carbon dioxid...

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 29:00