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Introducing: What On Earth. This week we are sharing an episode from What On Earth — a CBC Podcast dedicated to bringing you a world of climate s...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2024
  • Length: 29:59
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The maritime industry is a major contributor to our global systems: our economies, security, and stability. More than 80% of all international trad...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2024
  • Length: 05:14
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Deep Dive: Ants – warriors, engineers, farmers. Which creatures tend their own gardens, keep livestock, wage wars and have been around since the d...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Sep 12, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Radar Images of Asteroid 2011UL21, Credit: NASA/JPL
RADAR is very powerful tool since it can precisely measure an asteroid’s position and velocity as well as in some cases yield information about it...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, KKRN, KGLP and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Deep Dive: Suck, bury and store – Denmark wants your CO2, but why? If you can’t beat CO2 pollution, then bury it? That’s basically the thought beh...

Bought by WXDU, Radio Kansas, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 06, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Deep Dive: The dirty truth about laundry. Our laundry routine impacts the environment with chemicals, microplastics, and energy use. Is our fear o...

Bought by WXDU, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, Radio Kansas, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Aug 29, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Artists Conception of Asteroid Impact, Credit: NASA
Astronomers measure an asteroid’s position on the sky using a two dimensional system similar to the latitude and longitude coordinates we obtain w...

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  • Added: Aug 25, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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This week on the show: Capitalism and climate change. How are they related again? We dive into a history of greed and relentless growth. And in the...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, Radio Kansas, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WXDU


  • Added: Aug 22, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Asteroid Bennu, Credit: NASA/U. Arizona
A recent scientific paper characterizes the 123 grams of the regolith or surface material from the asteroid Bennu which NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecra...

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  • Added: Aug 18, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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This week on the show: Lessons from Germany’s ‘edible city’ on the Rhine The town of Andernach uses its public spaces to grow fruit and vegetables ...

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  • Added: Aug 15, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: The Spilhaus Projection World Ocean Map based on the Spilhaus projection, developed in 1942 by Dr. Athelstan Spilhaus. Centered in Antarctica, the world oceans come together to form a singular, connected, contiguous body of water. , Credit: StoryMaps ArcGIS
Visualization is a powerful tool for understanding beyond data, opening our minds and enabling transformative change through a new way of seeing. T...

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  • Added: Aug 02, 2024
  • Length: 05:16
  • Purchases: 1
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This week we take a trip to Mexico, a petrostate that just elected climate scientist Claudia Sheinbaum as its next president. She’s also the former...

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  • Added: Aug 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 12
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This week we take a trip to Mexico, a petrostate that just elected climate scientist Claudia Sheinbaum as its next president. She’s also the former...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: Artist’s conception of Earth and an Asteroid , Credit: Texas A&M/NASA
The Earth Minimum Orbit Intersection Distance or Earth MOID for short is the closest an asteroid can come to our home planet on it's current orbit.

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
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This week on the show: How lab-grown meat could help the climate Would you eat a steak grown from animal cells in a lab? How about chicken nuggets?...

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  • Added: Jul 25, 2024
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 3
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This week on the show: Are GM crops the answer to world hunger? By 2050, the global population is expected to reach almost 10 billion. And feeding ...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and Radio Kansas


  • Added: Jul 25, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Deep Dive: Murky waters - what’s stealing the light from our oceans? Coastal waters are darkening, with drastic consequences for marine life and th...

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  • Added: Jul 25, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Lunar Impact Crater, Credit: NASA
During a recent 60 day period of time 23 space rocks came closer to Earth than our Moon

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  • Added: Jul 14, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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Deep Dive: Why you’d better check the sunscreen you use. An ecological mystery in the Virgin Islands, a fateful snack run, and a discovery that wou...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, Radio Kansas, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Jul 12, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Radar Image Toutatis, Credit: NASA
It is hard to obtain time on the 8m Gemini South Observatory telescope on Cerro Pachon in Chile and the Large Binocular Telescope with its twin 8m ...

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  • Added: Jul 07, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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Deep Dive: Euro 2024 – can soccer go green? With over 2 billion dollars in expected revenue and a projected carbon footprint of 500,000 tons of CO2...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and Radio Kansas


  • Added: Jul 05, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
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This week on Living Planet: Deep Dive: Are we blind to our pets’ climate crimes? Worldwide, we’re obsessed with our pooches, our kitty cats and ...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, Radio Kansas, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 28, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
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World Ocean Observatory is ever in search of new systems that convert knowledge into action, especially as they relate to ocean education and commu...

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  • Added: Jun 27, 2024
  • Length: 05:18
  • Purchases: 1
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As countries around the world become more serious about reducing carbon emissions to meet international targets, many are still approving new oil a...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2024
  • Length: 58:57
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As countries around the world become more serious about reducing carbon emissions to meet international targets, many are still approving new oil a...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KSQD Santa Cruz, KOWS and more


  • Added: Jun 27, 2024
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 11