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692-Lonely Fragment(475)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A 2000 foot diameter space rock has stories to tell about violent events long ago. Asteroid hunters are eager to track this huge collision fragment...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: May 01, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
SF Public Defender Peter Calloway Pt. 2: Recall Rubbish
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Peter Calloway
More than 20 years ago, sociologist Barry Glassner wrote his bestseller The Culture of Fear, where he explains why Americans tend to be unreasonabl...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
This Week in Water for April 24, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Denver Is Using Its Sewage to Fight Climate Change. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KRZA, KMXT, KGNU Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 24, 2022
  • Length: 06:01
  • Purchases: 6
SF Public Defender Peter Calloway Pt. 1: Crime And Moral Panic
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Peter Calloway
In his astute and timeless book, "How to Lie with Statistics," Darrell Huff writes, “The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-mind...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
The Number of Squirrels in NYC Parks in a Nutshell
From: Rebekah Robinson
Caption: Curious squirrel, Central Park, New York, Credit: basair is marked with CC BY-NC 2.0
How many squirrels are there in Central Park? It’s not just a trivia question for a dinner party. The answer tells us a lot about the urban environ...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2022
  • Length: 02:44
This Week in Water for April 17, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Cacti Are in a Prickly Situation. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KGNU Community Radio, KMXT and more


  • Added: Apr 17, 2022
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 6
Lambda Legal CEO Kevin Jennings on the Fight For Equal Rights (re-broadcast)
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Kevin Jennings
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. famously instilled optimism with his proclamation that, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward jus...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
This Week in Water for April 10, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Turning Plastic into a Climate Solution. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KRZA, KGNU Community Radio, KMXT, KKFI and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2022
  • Length: 06:07
  • Purchases: 7
689-Botswana Bound(471)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fragments of the asteroid 2018 LA scattered over a wide area in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve., Credit: Alexande Proyer
A small space rock with a diameter less than the height of an NBA basketball player had just crossed the orbit of our Moon on a collision course wi...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KICI Iowa City, KGLP and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Hog Wild: Susanne Rust on the Feral Pig Problem
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Susanne Rust
You may not have seen them running through your yard, but just wait. Feral pigs are everywhere and they’re a growing problem. This week on Sea Chan...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
This Week in Water for April 3, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Using Garbage to Break Ties with Russia. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KRZA, KGNU Community Radio, KMXT and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 7
Jesse Tran: Coffee Waste Sneakers
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jesse Tran
According to a study conducted by Quantis International, footwear production is responsible for about 700 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, or...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
This Week in Water for March 27, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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A Vegetable That Can Clean Drinking Water. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KRZA, WYAP and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2022
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 6
687-Returnee(465)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid, Credit: NASA
After being lost for ten years, the asteroid 2010 WC9 was re-discovered about a week before it came very close to Earth.

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KICI Iowa City, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Health Care’s Climate Change Contradiction
From: Tradeoffs
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The U.S. health care system is responsible for 8.5% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. We discuss how health care contributes to climate ch...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 24, 2022
  • Length: 15:11
  • Purchases: 1
Dan Dicker: A Basket Case Study of Oil
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Dan Dicker
America loves to blame the President when gas prices are high but the fact is the U.S. President has very little control over the price we pay at t...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
This Week in Water for March 20, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Rivers and Lakes Are Still Polluted 50 Years After the Clean Water Act. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KRZA, KMXT, KKFI and more


  • Added: Mar 20, 2022
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 6
Adam Sobel: A Climate Science Midlife Crisis
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Adam Sobel
Imagine you go to graduate school for a bunch of years, conscientiously studying the nuanced interactions of the variables that underlie the globe'...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
This Week in Water for March 13, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Kite Energy Might Start to Soar. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KRZA, KGNU Community Radio, KMXT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 6
685-Exiled Asteroid(463)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist’s concept illustrating a catastrophic collision between two rocky exoplanets in the planetary system BD +20 307, turning both into dusty debris. Ten years ago, scientists speculated that the warm dust in this system was a result of a planet-to-plan, Credit: NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook
An asteroid is exiled to the outer regions of the solar system during Jupiter's rampaging tack away from the Sun long ago. During that process enou...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Ted Nordhaus: What Are Environmental Protections Protecting?
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Ted Nordhaus
Historian T.J. Jackson Lears once said, "All history is the history of unintended consequences." This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with Ted N...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
This Week in Water for March 6, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Putin’s War in Ukraine Freezes Arctic Research. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMXT, KRZA and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2022
  • Length: 06:10
  • Purchases: 6
684-Our View(462)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Night Sky, Credit: NPS
Modern technology provides us with stunning views of objects in the Universe in wavelengths invisible to our eyes, however, nothing is as moving an...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, WTIP and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Anne Clunan on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Anne Clunan
War has suddenly returned to Europe. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been swift, shocking, and devastating. In addition to killing thousands of...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KVNF, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
This Week in Water for February 27, 2022
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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The Environmental Consequences of the War in Ukraine. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KGNU Community Radio, KRZA and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2022
  • Length: 06:06
  • Purchases: 6

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