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Oral historian Blanche Girouard talks to orchestral conductor Leigh O'Hara about his passion for his model railway
- Added: Apr 17, 2015
- Length: 29:01
In 2014, Florida voters passed Amendment 1—the Florida Water and Land Conservation Amendment—by a sweeping 75%. Advocates believe this should send ...
- Added: Apr 09, 2015
- Length: 11:42
Ideal for broadcast around Earth Day (4/22/15), produced in association with WGBH/Boston. This documentary examines different sides of the new deba...
Bought by KQED
- Added: Mar 26, 2015
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
High schooler William Whittenbury attacks the dire situation of the endangered porpoise - the vaquitas. William hopes to change the fate of the vaq...
- Added: Mar 16, 2015
- Length: 04:03
In 1857, economic hardship left farmers and other citizens bust. Looking for a way to earn money Minnesotans took to the forests to harvest ginseng...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 04:39
Imagine a landscape dressed in trees, dressed in grass, dressed in water. Now what if you could pull that all away? What would remain? In this show...
- Added: Mar 05, 2015
- Length: 27:18
Every summer tourists flock to the beautiful beaches of Eilat, Israel. But in the past thirty years, a new kind of tourist has made its way down so...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 25, 2015
- Length: 12:49
- Purchases: 2
In Florida's Miami-Dade County, tensions are mounting over a fragment of endangered pine rockland.
- Added: Feb 17, 2015
- Length: 13:31
The Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge Wilderness Area is one of the largest preserved marsh lands in the United States.
- Added: Jan 09, 2015
- Length: 18:38
Bringing wolves back to the West has tested the legal system’s tolerance for restoring wild places Especially when humans live nearby. This year...
- Added: Nov 07, 2014
- Length: 16:25
- Purchases: 2
Larger-than-life Serbian sculptor Zoran Mojisilov creates work from the most primal of elements: rocks, wood scraps and steel he hauls to his North...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 05:22
Minnehaha Falls has been a popular tourist spot for politicians since Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote his epic poem, “The Song of Hiawatha” in 185...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 04:21
Shona revisits a conversation she had at the age of 17 with Andy Lipkiss, founder of TreePeople, and discovers that his story has even more relevan...
- Added: Oct 03, 2014
- Length: 14:26
A hand-drawn map on a dining room table in a Colorado home was the main reason the spectacular Maroon-Bells Snowmass Wilderness was one of the firs...
Bought by Aspen Public Radio and KGNU Community Radio
- Added: Sep 10, 2014
- Length: 26:45
- Purchases: 2
Ken Golden isn't your typical mathematician. He's the Indiana Jones of Mathematics. He gets up from behind his desk, armed with mathematical theory...
Bought by KALW, Troy Public Radio, Radio Newark, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more
- Added: Aug 26, 2014
- Length: 07:32
- Purchases: 10
From: Aengus Anderson
In the wake of a catastrophic fire, researchers use Arizona's Chiricahua Mountains to look centuries into the future of climate change and ask "wha...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA
- Added: Aug 25, 2014
- Length: 06:55
- Purchases: 2
The recycling economy of southern Maine
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 07:07
Questioning the threat to moose in Maine
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 07:07
- Purchases: 2
An investigation into the declining numbers of bumblebees in the United Kingdom and the efforts being made by the Bumblebee Conservation Trust to p...
- Added: Jul 24, 2014
- Length: 27:59
March 11 marks three years since the Fukushima nuclear disaster. It might be more accurate to say it marks three years since the start of this ongo...
Bought by Accessible Media Inc.
- Added: Jul 07, 2014
- Length: 08:45
- Purchases: 1
Food has become cheaper and more abundant in the last 150 years, largely thanks to technological advances. Irrigation, fertilizer, pesticides, and ...
Bought by KSJD
- Added: Jun 29, 2014
- Length: 22:01
- Purchases: 1
Back in 1958 Popular Science published an article about General Motor’s plan to build self-driving cars guided by electrical cables in roadways. Gi...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
The most common element in all accidents is the human element. In the quest to eliminate driver error and make our roads safer, we’ve been searchin...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Believe it or not, electric vehicles used to be more popular than gasoline engines. The first practical electric car in 1884, and for decades many ...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
For the past fifty years physicists around the world have been trying to create a fusion power reactor, harnessing the processes deep inside of sta...
- Added: Jun 04, 2014
- Length: 02:00
