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Early Spring
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
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Spring is arriving early to North American wildlife refuges because of climate change.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, Spokane Public Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 6
Tesla—No Not the Car, the Prolific Inventor
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Clean energy expert Richard Munson’s newest biography is "Tesla. Inventor of the Modern.” Serbian-American Nikola Tesla, born more than 150 years ...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2018
  • Length: 09:55
Ice World Travels 20,000 Years Ago: Craig Childs
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Nature writer Craig Childs is the author of Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America. It’s a travelogue of places and people, just like us...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2018
  • Length: 09:56
The Dispossessed, Part 2; Red Wolves of the Alligator River Chapter 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Red wolf howling.
Red wolves used to roam free across most of the eastern United States, from Maine to Florida, from Missouri to Texas, one of the top dogs in the fo...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2018
  • Length: 24:08
Lost Whales
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
Caption: Aerial view of some of the fish-salting tanks (cetaria) in the ancient Roman city of Baelo Claudia, near today's Tarifa in Spain. , Credit: D. Bernal-Casasola, University of Cadiz
Whales used the Mediterranean as breeding grounds during ancient Roman times.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, WLPR , and KENW


  • Added: Jul 15, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 5
Small Town Archaeology
From: Science Update
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A town square offers a trove of archaeological discoveries.

  • Added: Jun 30, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
150 Years Later, the American Divide Is Shifting
From: H2O Radio
Series: Water News in the West
Caption: H2O Radio News
John Wesley Powell recognized—back in 1869—that U.S. development west of the 100th meridian would have to be different than the East because water ...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2018
  • Length: 03:57
Interview w/ naturalist DIANE ACKERMAN about her book "The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us"
From: Out of Bounds
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Award-winning naturalist, poet & author discusses her most recent book "The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us"

  • Added: Sep 13, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
Divers chronicle Great Lakes shipwreck that left 32 dead
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: The Admiral shipwreck, Credit: Marc Duncan
There’s more than just fish and sand in the Great Lakes – there are thousands of ships, airplanes, and other vehicles under the water. A story on ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, WRVO Public Media, WCMU Michigan, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 8
AMOS 17.133: Our Earliest Ancestor, 7/5/2017
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Our Earliest Ancestor

  • Added: May 12, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
The Write Question - Jordan Fisher Smith - 275
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Jordan Fisher Smith talks about and reads from 'Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, A Trial, and the Fight Over Controlling Nature

Bought by KWMR, KSFR, KGLT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KCMJ Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 06, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
AMOS 17.078: When Continents Collide, 4/19/2017
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
When Continents Collide

  • Added: Feb 06, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
Biology professors Carl & Jane Bock and “Coronado’s Trail,” a debut mystery
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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After decades of field work in southern Arizona, these two retired Univ of Colorado professors have authored the first in their Arizona Borderlands...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2016
  • Length: 09:56
Oil Boom Earthquakes
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
Caption: Huntington Beach, 1926, Credit: Photo Courtesy of the Orange County Archives Barbara K. Milkovich Collection CC BY 2.0, via flickr
Did early 20th century oil wells in southern California trigger major earthquakes?

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  • Added: Nov 05, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 7
Geology expert John Green visits Cook County
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Prof. John Green is a retired geology professor from UMD whose specialty is the geology of the Arrowhead region. He stopped in to chat with WTIP's ...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2016
  • Length: 13:15
Climate Change: The Beginning
From: Generation Anthropocene
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Humans have been altering the climate for a long time – but how long, exactly? This question is central to the Anthropocene debate. When did the hu...

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Aug 24, 2016
  • Length: 24:11
  • Purchases: 1
Early Humans and Megafauna
From: Generation Anthropocene
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The Anthropocene is characterized by exponential global change driven by human activity. But humans have been impacting the planet since the very e...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2016
  • Length: 26:34
What's in a Word?
From: Generation Anthropocene
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This week, we explore communication: how do we talk? how do we hear? and what the hell are we even saying? And what about the rest of the animal k...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2016
  • Length: 19:27
Lauret Savoy - Trace, Memory, History, Race and the American Landscape
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
Caption: Lauret Savoy
WV talks with environmental earth scientist and writer Lauret Savoy about her stunning new book, TRACE. In it, Savoy examines how the country’s sti...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
"Northwoods Naturalist" weighs in on possibility of an early spring
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Chel Anderson is a botanist and plant ecologist who has lived and worked on the North Shore since 1974. She's the Northwoods Naturalist on WTIP and...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 17:20
How & where did dogs evolve? Scientist & veterinarian explains
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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A recently published study suggests that all dogs alive today can trace at least some of their ancestry back to dogs that were domesticated 33,000 ...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2016
  • Length: 20:06
Climatologist/meteorologist Mark Seeley recaps 2015 weather
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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2015 was a pretty unusual year for weather. Dr. Mark Seeley, extension climatologist, meteorologist, and professor, and regular guest on Minnesota ...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2016
  • Length: 19:48
Acts of God, Acts of Men:
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Weather Made to Order? , Credit: May 28, 1954 Collier's magazine cover.
When we turn nature into a weapon.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 36:16
Behaving Against Our Interests: Paul Ehrlich #110
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Today it could be argued that human beings daily act against our own self-interests. How? Biologist Paul Ehrlich and fellow scientists tell us we a...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Bandon Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KRZA, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 6
And Now for a Different Kind of Climate Change Story...
From: H2O Radio
Series: Sounds From a Warming Planet
Caption: H2O Radio—Journalism About Water
A true account of climate scientists who didn't know about global warming, but told its story. The Vaux family thought they were just out for a fun...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KVNF, KRZA, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Sep 09, 2015
  • Length: 10:58
  • Purchases: 4