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For the past three and a half decades, zebra and quagga mussels have fundamentally altered the ecology and hijacked the food web of the Great Lakes...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 15:15
A deadly fungal infection is pushing some bat species to the brink of extinction. As scientists scramble to track the spread of white nose syndrome...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 14:35
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
Tapping Earth’s largest source of clean energy -- its oceans. Ocean waves, tides and heat. A massive resource. Then, there’s salt gradient energy. ...
- Added: Oct 31, 2023
- Length: 53:57
This is Threshold Season 4: “Time to 1.5” In this episode we travel to northern Sweden to explore how a greener process could revolutionize the iro...
- Added: May 19, 2022
- Length: 49:00
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...
Bought by KSKQ
- 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...
Bought by KSKQ
- Added: Mar 16, 2022
- Length: 01:02:39
- Purchases: 1
Ride along with a sanitation worker who collects everything in San Francisco’s blue bins, and learn some dos and don’ts of recycling at a Recology ...
- Added: Dec 23, 2021
- Length: 29:30
The pandemic wreaks havoc on the Carbon XPRIZE – it turns out, additional delays won't be the only impact. Upon arriving in Gillette, Cooper is in ...
- Added: Jul 07, 2021
- Length: 51:18
Dimensional Energy is at a crossroads with the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE: can they afford to stay in? Their situation raises larger questions about t...
- Added: Jun 28, 2021
- Length: 49:50
Cooper can't wait any longer to see carbon capture utilization technology, so he makes a slightly abnormal reporting trip… across the country. He w...
- Added: Jun 28, 2021
- Length: 52:42
It's the summer of 2019. Two more coal companies have filed for bankruptcy, and hundreds of workers are left in the lurch. Meanwhile, Jason Salfi i...
- Added: May 11, 2021
- Length: 45:50
Cooper must abruptly leave Wyoming for an unexpected trip home. But there's no break in reporting on coal country: another coal-fired power plant h...
- Added: May 10, 2021
- Length: 46:20
Dutch engineers find a way to bring drinkable water to South Africans by combining it with their favorite sporting pastime.
- Added: Apr 23, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Almost every year a small island off the coast of Java is flooded with crabs. The local National Park staff came up with a unique solution to help ...
- Added: Dec 23, 2017
- Length: 07:28
Why do astronomers feel a giant new telescope on top of Mauna Kea is so important? What will Hawaii — and the scientific community — stand to lose ...
- Added: Apr 07, 2017
- Length: 38:39
This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, you'll hear from Rebecca Singer from CIFT Innovations.
- Added: Apr 03, 2017
- Length: 06:48
Melbourne, Australia wanted its residents to help keep an eye on its trees. So they gave every tree an email address. But then the trees started to...
Bought by KUER, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KRZA
- Added: Feb 08, 2017
- Length: 15:20
- Purchases: 3
If you’re even the least bit interested in solar power, you’ve probably come across an obscure, hard-to-parse, seemingly conflict-free term: net me...
Bought by WMMT
- Added: Jan 16, 2017
- Length: 39:36
- Purchases: 1
Something very different is going on up in Boothbay, Maine. It was an experiment which – if it works – could represent a fundamental shift in the w...
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 22:15
- Added: Oct 19, 2015
- Length: 29:58
Here's the first episode in our “Summer Dispatches” series, in which reporter Megan Molteni braves the scarred landscape of Colorado Springs after...
- Added: Oct 02, 2012
- Length: 13:57
Some of us have built our own units. You can too!
- Added: Jul 08, 2010
- Length: 01:42
You can save on electricity if you never open the door
Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920
- Added: Jan 10, 2009
- Length: 01:54
- Purchases: 1