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The town of Brunswick, Maine is set to remove 2/3 of the trees on Maine Street because it is too expensive to work around them as they install new ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Apr 19, 2024
- Length: 01:49
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Producer Allison Salerno reports on community organizations and scientists who are working with farmworkers in Florida to safeguard themselves from...
- Added: Apr 19, 2024
- Length: 25:21
Over 100,000 people live in New York City basement apartments; most are immigrants. It’s an open secret that, while basement apartments offer cheap...
- Added: Apr 19, 2024
- Length: 31:45
When Hurricane Otis devastated the resort city of Acapulco in October 2023, Mexican authorities struggled to respond to the disaster. Producer Gret...
- Added: Apr 19, 2024
- Length: 32:08
This week on World Ocean Radio we're discussing a recent trip to Lisbon, Portugal to attend the Economist Ocean Summit. One such conversation we pa...
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- Added: Apr 19, 2024
- Length: 05:04
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HOUR ONE: "Deep Time: How Earth keeps time" - No one understands time like a geologist. And with the climate convulsing and the future breathing do...
- Added: Apr 19, 2024
- Length: 01:59:00
Host Diana Korte speaks with US Senator Tim Kaine from VA and former Democratic vice-presidential candidate. He is the author of a new memoir-...
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- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 08:53
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Artificial intelligence can do some pretty amazing things, including for the climate. AI can help optimize the electric grid, make heating and cool...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 58:59
Artificial intelligence can do some pretty amazing things, including for the climate. AI can help optimize the electric grid, make heating and cool...
Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 58:59
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For her PhD, Deja Perkins is studying datasets generated by the public, also known as participatory science projects. These projects include eBird,...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
While Dara Wilson was working at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in D.C., she introduced visitors to the Amazonia exhibit. She would describe the so...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
When Adé Ben-Salahuddin stopped to help a trapped young bird on his way home from work, he found an unexpected source of help: an older Black woman...
Bought by KBIA and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
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This episode narrated by Marcus Rosten explores the history and the birdlife of the Niagara River Corridor. Just downstream from the falls, Long-ta...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
In this episode, neuroscientist Lola Neal explores how birds are used as models to understand many neural processes, as they have cognitive abiliti...
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- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
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In this episode, Nicole Jackson and Emma Brittain announce the fifth year of Black Birders Week, a week-long celebration with events and activities...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
In 2019, several co-workers at the National Audubon Society formed a team for the World Series of Birding that focused on identifying female birds....
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Red-headed Woodpeckers excavate cavities in large, dead trees called snags. Yet, over much of the Red-head's range, snags are frequently cut down a...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
As darkness descends on a May evening, the voices of many birds go quiet. But for some birds, especially those known as nightjars, the music is jus...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
In this episode of BirdNoir, Private Eye Michael Stein gives a word of advice to Ollie, an up-and-coming gumshoe. Ollie thinks he has heard his fir...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Waterfowl like this Muscovy duckling spend up to 30 days in the egg, so they’re able to walk, swim, and feed themselves as soon as they hatch. We c...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Some birds have always called nocturnally, but other species are relative newcomers to the nighttime music scene, specifically in urban areas. Bird...
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- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
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Seabirds have no problem drinking sea water. The salt they take in is absorbed and moves through their blood stream into a pair of salt glands abov...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
When you think of habitat, think of home. For a jay that lives in the forest, the forest is its habitat – where it finds food, water, shelter, and ...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Unlike many shorebirds, Willets breed inland. When nesting is done, they migrate south to both Atlantic and Pacific coastlines in the U.S. and Cent...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Sometimes in spring or summer, you might see a fledgling songbird. Like a toddler, it’s unsteady, awkward, and learning the ropes. And you might wo...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45