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What used to be a wondrous event every year in India, has this year taken on a darker hue. Sandip Roy looks to the skies and considers this seasons...
- Added: Aug 05, 2024
- Length: 06:00
Polar ice caps are melting. Huge swathes of the world are sweltering under record high temperatures. But how do you talk about climate change to ch...
- Added: Jun 24, 2024
- Length: 06:00
It takes a special breed to head to a Great Lakes beach during the windiest months of the year. But storm photographers are up for the challenge.
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 09:18
As the Indian heat descends on Kolkata, Sandip considers how our perceptions about the rituals of summer have changed.
- Added: Apr 30, 2024
- Length: 06:00
India’s famous “toilet man,” Dr. Bindeswar Pathak, died last month at the age of 80. But he was far more than just an inventor and business man. Sa...
- Added: Sep 19, 2023
- Length: 06:00
The White House state dinner for Indian prime minister Narendra Modi included for the first time millets as the main grain. And that caused quite a...
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- Added: Jul 03, 2023
- Length: 06:00
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Kolkata’s streets continue to clog with cars. The fate of an already established, cleaner transit option, teeters in the balance.
- Added: Apr 18, 2023
- Length: 06:00
Kolkata was the first city in India to have streetcars and the only city to still have them. And they carry within them a rich history of the city ...
- Added: Apr 11, 2023
- Length: 06:00
The short documentary Oscar win for The Elephant Whisperers is being widely celebrated in India because it's a first for India. But what will it me...
- Added: Mar 21, 2023
- Length: 06:00
In this episode, go into the field with a team of scientists working to map the coastal seafloor in detail—and learn how their technologies could r...
- Added: Mar 06, 2023
- Length: 20:11
The drums of Durga Puja, the biggest festival of the Kolkata calendar finally stopped beating last week.
But some are asking about such a big celeb...
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- Added: Oct 11, 2022
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
A ban on single use plastic went into effect in India last month. But food and beverage companies like Coca Cola and Pepsico are saying they cannot...
- Added: Aug 08, 2022
- Length: 06:00
Dr Sulochana Gadgil started studying the Indian monsoon when she was at Harvard in the 1960s. She's been tracking it back in India since 1971. And ...
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- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 06:00
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On world Environmental Day, Sandip rediscovers an old transit system that has potential for all of us.
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- Added: Jun 06, 2022
- Length: 06:00
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Every May 29th is Mt. Everest Day.
- Added: Jun 15, 2021
- Length: 06:00
As San Francisco’s heat wave hits 100º Sandip Roy recalls how to battle heat waves in his native Kolkata.
- Added: Sep 07, 2020
- Length: 06:00
The Sundarbans in Bengal, India have become a speeded up version of global climate change.
- Added: Jun 09, 2020
- Length: 06:00
As crazy weather makes headlines globally, Sandip Roy reflects on the monsoons of his past.
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- Added: Aug 05, 2019
- Length: 06:00
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This week marks International Tiger Day. And they certainly need one.
- Added: Jul 29, 2019
- Length: 06:00
When you hear those statistics that tell you the oceans are warming and you wonder where those numbers come from, this is where: From scientists me...
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- Added: Jun 20, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 13
Sandip Roy compares our current heat wave to a typical “Indian Summer.”
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- Added: Jun 10, 2019
- Length: 06:00
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An environmental success story.
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- Added: Jan 17, 2019
- Length: 24:10
- Purchases: 1
India is home to some of the most polluted cities in the world, but also home to some of the first champions of recycling.
- Added: Jan 07, 2019
- Length: 06:00
This week marked the 40th anniversary of the federal emergency declaration at Love Canal, the New York neighborhood endanger by industrial pollutio...
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- Added: Aug 10, 2018
- Length: 05:12
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Hot lava™. This is a smoky, spicy, garlic salt. But now when I look at my Hot Lava garlic salt I feel a pang.
- Added: May 22, 2018
- Length: 06:00