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Flying squirrels glow pink under a blacklight. How many other mammals do this? What causes them to glow? The hardest question of all might never be...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 17:50
States in the Great Lakes kill beavers and remove dams on select rivers and streams. They’re doing it, in part, for anglers and the multi-billion d...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 14:14
Alison Világ pays attention for a living. She counts migrating ducks at Whitefish Point Bird Observatory, near Paradise, Michigan. It's key to gett...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 13:27
Rock hunting holds a special place in Joyce Fetrow’s heart. Years ago, she battled alcoholism that drove her to some dark places. Now, Joyce dedica...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 11:56
Invasive species often spread by hitching a ride on anglers, especially anglers who don’t clean their gear after fishing. Though this is widely kno...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 13:07
Freshwater jellyfish have been in inland lakes and rivers throughout the Great Lakes region since 1933. But a century after their discovery, we sti...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 09:54
Lane Frame was visiting the Great Lakes for the first time. It was a windy day and the water was rough, but Lane and his brothers headed onto a pie...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 17:25
In October 1960, Prince Akihito of Japan visited Chicago for 21 hours. Chicago’s mayor presented the prince with a diplomatic gift: 18 bluegill. Wh...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 12:32
Red-eared sliders are one of the most common pet turtle species in the world. But they can grow to the size of dinner plates and can live around 40...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 11:42
A team of archaeologists looks for signs of prehistoric life 100 feet underwater in Lake Huron. But they need help narrowing their search. So, they...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 17:20
Deer culling is common across the Midwest. Cities often hire sharpshooters or allow hunters to kill a certain number of deer. But one community in ...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 18:30
Bill Shanabruch left his job as regional biologist for the Piedmont with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. It was over a boondoggl...
- Added: Apr 23, 2024
- Length: 26:08
As staggeringly complex as the environmental catastrophe is, by tackling one small space at a time, we might be able to bring back entire ecosystem...
- Added: Apr 16, 2024
- Length: 24:26
Integrative health physician Dr. Sharon Goldberg talks about helping her patients who suffer from Electromagnetic Sensitivity and how their symptom...
- Added: Nov 01, 2023
- Length: 28:51
- Purchases: 2
PEER's Kyla Bennet talks about her whistleblowing experience at EPA and how it changed her life.
- Added: Aug 07, 2023
- Length: 28:23
Hear from your host, Theresa Soley, as she shares her unexpected interest in glacial ice.
- Added: Jun 26, 2023
- Length: 24:45
Dr. Jenny Davies (MD, MPH and JD) talks about how chemicals in plastic leach into the contents of any plastic bottle.
- Added: Jun 12, 2023
- Length: 28:41
- Purchases: 3
On this edition of GSN, Dr. Paul Heroux explains some of the history of cell phones and how and why they should be made safer.
- Added: Apr 10, 2023
- Length: 28:15
- Purchases: 2
Little things can cause big trouble when man changes the environment
- Added: Mar 20, 2023
- Length: 28:34
- Purchases: 2
The sordid story of the corrupt Monsanto corporation, which created a highly toxic, cancer-causing pesticide and then developed GMO crops that were...
- Added: Jan 15, 2023
- Length: 28:32
This is Threshold Season 4: “Time to 1.5.” In this episode, we continue our journey at COP26 in Glasgow to see what the process for organizing a so...
- Added: Jul 06, 2022
- Length: 41:08
This is Threshold Season 4: “Time to 1.5.” In this episode, we take you into the trenches of COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, to explore how the process...
- Added: Jun 06, 2022
- Length: 58:55
Steel is the signature material of the Industrial Revolution. It’s also an essential component of the wind turbines, electric cars, and climate-fri...
Bought by KSKQ
- Added: Apr 20, 2022
- Length: 44:52
- Purchases: 1
A lot of the changes needed to keep global heating below 1.5 degrees have to occur at a huge, international level. But nearly a fifth of carbon emi...
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- Added: Apr 04, 2022
- Length: 01:24:16
- Purchases: 1
We keep hearing (and saying) that solving climate change is really hard. But we actually know what we need to do—and have the technology to do it—r...
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- Added: Mar 16, 2022
- Length: 01:02:39
- Purchases: 1
