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Constant Wonder - Queens or Pawns?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Did she even have a prayer of becoming queen? Her name Arbella actually means prayerful; and yes, she did have a prayer of becoming queen, but it d...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Jul 20, 2022
  • Length: 52:54
  • Purchases: 3
Constant Wonder - Animal Duets
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Do birds and other animals actually make and enjoy music?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 3
Constant Wonder - Lost at Sea
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Jonathan Franklin shares the story of how Salvador Alvarenga survived for more than a year adrift in the Pacific Ocean. Joan Druett shares the para...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 52:49
  • Purchases: 2
Constant Wonder - Mockingbirds
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Mockingbirds learn hundreds of songs and manipulate them with stunning sophistication. Why?

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and WYAP


  • Added: Apr 19, 2022
  • Length: 52:53
  • Purchases: 2
GN_3.03_Bio Fuel Break Thru
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
The aviation industry is one of the largest users of fossil fuels. The solution could be in the middle east where A branchy-like plant is looking v...

  • Added: May 03, 2021
  • Length: 02:32
GN_1.01_Forest Man
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 1
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
In 1979, a sixteen year old boy starts planting trees to save his island, and it works.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
GN_6.35_ Coconut Leather
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
There is a new kind of ‘leather’ that comes from coconuts instead of animals. It’s not only a sustainable alternative, it’s turning a waste product...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 1
GN_6.42_ Hedonistic Sustainability
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Hedonistic Sustainability is the idea that living sustainably should be enjoyable for all.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:38
A Crisis in the Desert
From: City High Radio
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Seventeen-year-old Paloma Martinez lives in Tucson, Arizona. She's heard that a global water crisis might be coming, and her mom thinks Tucson is g...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 14, 2019
  • Length: 13:49
  • Purchases: 3
Biohybrid Robot
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
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Merging living muscle with synthetic bones.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, and KENW


  • Added: Jun 01, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 4
Plankton Eye
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Scientists take a close look at a single celled creature with a complex eye.

Bought by KENW and WLPR


  • Added: Jul 20, 2015
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 2
Condor Culture
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: California Condor with chick. , Credit: Joseph Brandt/Pacific Southwest Region U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Captive-bred California Condors lack role models to show them how to survive in the wild. But wildlife biologists are there to help them navigate t...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2013
  • Length: 01:00
SURINAME SURINAME
From: Anton Foek
Caption: Water in overvloed, Credit: Anton Foek
Siew Naipal is een Surinamer, die in de Oekraine dat deel uitmaakte van de voormalige Soviet Unie, tot hdroloog, expert in de waterhuishoudkunde, i...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2013
  • Length: 28:12
Amazonia and friends
From: Anton Foek
Caption: Sunset over Manaus, Credit: Anton Foek
On the road from Suriname to Brazil, dr van Dijck, associate professor at the University of Amsterdam, takes us in a world that soon will be change...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2013
  • Length: 32:10
Looking Back to Look Forward: Energy and the Environment
From: KNKX
Series: Looking Back to Look Forward: Election 2008
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Examining how energy and the environment are being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' att...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2008
  • Length: 07:56
The Greening of Salt Lake City
From: KUER
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A mayor in the most conservative state in the nation vows to reach the goals of the Kyoto Accord.

Bought by WGVU, WAER Syracuse, NY, WILL, WNKU, KRCC-FM and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2005
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 6