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Today kicks off Coral Reef Awareness Week. Coral reefs are hotspots of biodiversity, but they’re threatened by warming ocean temperatures, pollutio...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
This American Kestrel evolved to nest in tree cavities or small caves in cliffs. We humans have made life difficult for kestrels. Development has s...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
A movie runs at 24 frames per second, just right for humans to sense as normal speed. Pigeons process the visual world several times faster. The fr...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Many people would tell you that hearing birdsong puts them in a good mood. Recently, scientists have tried to put numbers to this effect that many ...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Many woodpeckers chisel out deep cavities in tree trunks in order to lay their eggs and raise their brood. The cavities hollowed out by the birds v...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Amid discussion of renaming birds that are named after people, ornithologist J. Drew Lanham forms a “committee of one” to choose his own names for ...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Eagle Cliff in New Hampshire’s Franconia Notch State Park is an important nesting site for Peregrine Falcons. Each year, popular climbing routes in...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Researchers studying birds called Japanese Tits, relatives of the chickadees and titmice in North America, noticed that mates raising chicks togeth...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
The spider’s web is an intricate piece of precision engineering. Made from large proteins, it’s sticky, stretchy, and tough. So it’s no surprise th...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Male Great Egrets have special long feather plumes called aigrettes, which they use in courtship displays in the spring. These beautiful big birds ...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Artist David Shepard designs aloha shirts with illustrations of Hawai‘i's native flora and fauna. David actually trained as a botanist, and one of ...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Tiny Marsh Wrens live in wetlands, usually within cattails, reeds, or bulrushes. After choosing his territory, the male weaves up to 15 dome-shaped...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
In this episode, J. Drew Lanham shares how his grandmother’s personal names for the birds helped shape his own relationships with birds. Names such...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
As singers go, American Robins are exceptional. They’re often the first birds to sing in the morning, and the last you’ll hear in the evening. Whil...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
If you’re new to birding, you might be baffled by names like Couch’s Kingbird, Wilson’s Warbler, and Townsend’s Solitaire. These birds were named i...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Advocating for the power of language to bring us into deeper awareness and connection with our landscapes, acclaimed British author Robert Macfarla...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 52:00
A decade into a journalism project that follows our early ancestors’ migration pathway out of Africa, Paul Salopek joins us to discuss the ways wal...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 52:01
Can something as simple and everyday as our food system be a rich avenue for remembering our way back into relationship with the land? In this conv...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 52:00
In this double-bill episode, we’re sharing a special conversation with author, eco-philosopher, and Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy, along with her re...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 52:01
What other kinds of time exist outside of the constraints of standardized, mechanized clock time? Jenny Odell speaks to us about her book Saving Ti...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 52:01
Ron and Julie Lynam came to StoryCorps to talk about losing their house in the 2012 High Park Fire and what it was like to rebuild their lives.
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 03:04
Despite what the packaging says, flushable wipes should never be flushed down the toilet! They can cause blockages in the sewer system and create a...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 03:16
- Purchases: 1
For decades now, people have been installing solar panels, wind turbines and more to transition our energy to renewable sources – but we wondered, ...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 04:00
Eco-Villages and the future of community.
Bought by WOJB
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 58:05
- Purchases: 1
Today, companies are storing millions of tons of carbon dioxide underground every year to prevent this climate pollution from warming the planet. I...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 12:22
