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Literary critic and pop culture enthusiast Ursula Heise dissects environmental storytelling and its relation to science… both real and fiction. [Se...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 34:06
In this interview, we learn from James Holland Jones how diseases emerge and spread as humans encroach into the wilderness, and how the patterns wi...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 37:41
Peter Kareiva, the chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy, discusses his definition of nature and challenges the assertion that nature is fragi...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 29:43
Spirited biologist Rodolfo Dirzo discusses the complex interplay of climate change with other systems, and his personal relation to the Anthropocen...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 46:56
Andy Hoffman, a Professor at the University of Michigan business school, shares examples of the integration of environmental issues into corporate ...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 27:45
Dive into water policy with Buzz Thompson, leading expert in environmental and natural resources law. From his grandfather’s farm to the US Suprem...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 41:29
Conservation biologist Terry Root discusses the road to triage and her somewhat controversial approach to saving species in the face of climate cha...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 37:16
Former HP executive Debra Dunn discusses the power of entrepreneurship, the changing culture of business and what she learned on a recent trip to C...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 20:48
Luis Zambrano discusses preserving Aztec culture through a rare salamander in the Mexico City wetlands, and compares emerging conservation battles ...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 22:05
Commentary: The great health hazards facing tobacco harvesters are being largely ignored.
- Added: Sep 27, 2012
- Length: 03:36
This year’s outbreak of the West Nile virus is breaking records, with over 1500 cases reported so far. One researcher believes that decreasing the ...
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- Added: Sep 07, 2012
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 1
American cod fishermen are broke. Norwegian cod fishermen make $100,000/year. What's up with that?
- Added: Jul 10, 2012
- Length: 10:50
- Purchases: 2
CASPER, Wyo. - A federal study of the use of silica in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in oil and gas fields found that workers are sometimes ov...
- Added: Jun 26, 2012
- Length: 02:07
LONGMONT, Colo. - Grassroots organizations in Colorado are fighting the use of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in residential areas. They're hop...
- Added: Jun 21, 2012
- Length: 01:29
CONCORD, N.H. - The risks to water and wildlife if tar sands from Alberta are sent through an existing, aging pipeline across Vermont, New Hampshir...
- Added: Jun 19, 2012
- Length: 01:34
DENVER - A group of Front Range water providers is worried that the Bureau of Land Management's oversight of potential water use by oil shale compa...
- Added: Jun 18, 2012
- Length: 02:01
I'm sitting in a landrover with 46 year old Soila Sayialel - the car is surrounded by over 50 docile elephants grazing in Amboseli National Park. I...
- Added: Jun 15, 2012
- Length: 14:44
New York, NY - The Cuomo administration appears to have a new "fracking plan" that would place geographic limitations on shale gas drilling in New ...
- Added: Jun 14, 2012
- Length: 01:55
RALEIGH, N.C. - Fracking is on the fast track in North Carolina.
A state Senate bill already has passed, and now the House, after making some chan...
- Added: Jun 14, 2012
- Length: 01:37
The history of aquaculture from the mid-20th century to the present.
- Added: Jun 13, 2012
- Length: 16:26
FORT COLLINS, Colo. - The fast-moving High Park Fire sent a plume of choking smoke over the Front Range urban corridor on Tuesday morning - the mos...
- Added: Jun 13, 2012
- Length: 01:52
How might toxic elements in our air, water and food explain the recent staggering rise of autism spectrum disorders ? Join Food Sleuth Radio host, ...
- Added: Jun 11, 2012
- Length: 28:00
DES MOINES, Iowa – Compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) save energy and last longer than incandescent bulbs, but when they do burn out, disposing...
- Added: Jun 08, 2012
- Length: 01:13
Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.
- Added: Jun 05, 2012
- Length: 01:56:29
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - It started in Texas a year ago: grassroots pressure on the nation's leading retailer to recycle hazardous electronic waste (e-...
- Added: Jun 04, 2012
- Length: 02:10
