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Season 1 Ep. 1: Let's Take This Outside
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Outside/In
Caption: Title card, Credit: Greta Rybus
How do you define wilderness? Why are humans drawn to summits? Will the cold-hardy kiwi save a struggling local economy, or will it destroy a nativ...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2016
  • Length: 56:29
Sea Change
From: Duke University
Series: Glad You Asked
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Rising sea levels are just one way climate change is reshaping the world's oceans, says Duke University oceanographer Susan Lozier.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2016
  • Length: 01:40
Can drownings be eliminated on the Great Lakes?
From: Great Lakes Today
Series: DANGEROUS WATERS
Caption: Lifeguards performing a drill at Silver Beach County Park, Credit: Elizabeth Miller
With lifeguards, warning signs, 911 phones and education efforts, beaches across the Great Lakes are preparing for emergencies. But how effective a...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WVBI-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUK, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Aug 12, 2016
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 8
Great Lakes drownings hit small Michigan county
From: Great Lakes Today
Series: DANGEROUS WATERS
Caption: Waves crash against pier near Silver Beach, Credit: Elizabeth Miller
Berrien County, Mich., is a tourist destination because of its beautiful beaches and 50 miles of Lake Michigan shoreline. But the community also ha...

Bought by WVBI-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUK, WXXI Rochester, WCPN and more


  • Added: Aug 12, 2016
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 7
Deadly currents -- why they hit the Great Lakes
From: Great Lakes Today
Series: DANGEROUS WATERS
Caption: Silver Beach County Park in St. Joseph, Michigan, Credit: Elizabeth Miller
Since 2002, powerful currents in the Great Lakes have caused more than 150 drownings, researchers say. A look at the science behind the currents.

Bought by WVBI-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WRVO Public Media, WMUK, Delta College Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 12, 2016
  • Length: 03:37
  • Purchases: 9
Ohio mother mourns son taken by Lake Erie current
From: Great Lakes Today
Series: DANGEROUS WATERS
Caption: Melissa Zirkle with a picture of Jermaine, Credit: Elizabeth Miller
Melissa Zirkle grew up near Lake Erie, but didn't learn about the dangerous currents in the Great Lakes. She lost her son to a powerful current in...

Bought by WVBI-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUK, WCPN, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Aug 12, 2016
  • Length: 03:13
  • Purchases: 7
Reshaping the Coast
From: Duke University
Series: Glad You Asked
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With our piecemeal coastal policies, "We're haphazardly geo-engineering a whole coast," says Duke University economist Martin Smith.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 1
A Perfect Storm
From: Duke University
Series: Glad You Asked
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Climate change, failing infrastructure and growing inequality add up to a perfect storm that is poised to hit the nation's poor, says Megan Mullin....

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 05, 2016
  • Length: 01:51
  • Purchases: 1
Mystery At The Lake
From: Trace Elements
Series: Trace Elements
Caption: Lake Oneida, Credit: National Environmental Education Foundation/Flickr
In the 1970s, a geochemist and a biologist banded together to solve a mystery at Lake Oneida in upstate New York. What they found is changing the w...

Bought by WDBM


  • Added: Apr 21, 2016
  • Length: 14:03
  • Purchases: 1
Episode One: The Case of The Vanishing Seals
From: KUCB
Series: SEAL: The Case of The Vanishing Seals (An Alaskan Island Mystery)
Caption: St. Paul tribal elder Greg Fratis Sr., Credit: KUCB/John Ryan
A marine mammal mystery told in bite-size chunks.

Bought by KRUA


  • Added: Apr 13, 2016
  • Length: 04:02
  • Purchases: 1
Episode Two: The Case of The Vanishing Seals
From: KUCB
Series: SEAL: The Case of The Vanishing Seals (An Alaskan Island Mystery)
Caption: Fur seals by the village of St. Paul, Alaska, Credit: KUCB/John Ryan
A marine mammal mystery told in bite-size chunks.

Bought by KRUA


  • Added: Apr 13, 2016
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode Three: The Case of The Vanishing Seals
From: KUCB
Series: SEAL: The Case of The Vanishing Seals (An Alaskan Island Mystery)
Caption: St. Paul, Alaska, Credit: KUCB/John Ryan
A marine mammal mystery told in bite-size chunks.

Bought by KRUA


  • Added: Apr 13, 2016
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Episode Four: The Case of The Vanishing Seals
From: KUCB
Series: SEAL: The Case of The Vanishing Seals (An Alaskan Island Mystery)
Caption: Northern fur seal on Alaska's St. Paul Island, Credit: KUCB/John Ryan
A marine mammal mystery told in bite-size chunks.

Bought by KRUA


  • Added: Apr 13, 2016
  • Length: 04:27
  • Purchases: 1
The Embedded Artist Tries Fly Tying
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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Alauna Yust is the producer of Area Voices and our very own Embedded Artist. Alauna hangs out with fine and folk art groups around Bemidji and trie...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2016
  • Length: 07:44
Natural Gas in the New Bolivia
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Going Global
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An anthropologist comments on the complicated relationship in Bolivia between the natural gas industry and those who want to protect the environmen...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 12:00
Inka Milewski
From: David Kattenburg
Caption: Inka Milewski, at home in Miramichi, NB, Credit: David Kattenburg
Profile of New Brunswick, Canada researcher and environmental health advocate Inka Milewski

  • Added: Oct 24, 2015
  • Length: 29:42
Water Pressure 4: Water's Taking it Back
From: Rupa Shenoy
Series: Water Pressure
Caption: Melting Alaskan glacier, Credit: Rupa Shenoy
Water is claiming more coastal land, everywhere. So, do we prepare for that, or protect against it?

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jul 23, 2015
  • Length: 06:07
  • Purchases: 1
Water Pressure 3: Water Isn't Just Running Out In California
From: Rupa Shenoy
Series: Water Pressure
Caption: Swansea Water Manager Robert Marquis
Our biggest source of freshwater is running out -- everywhere.

Bought by WABE, WLPR , and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jul 23, 2015
  • Length: 06:31
  • Purchases: 3
Water Pressure 1: New England Stole California's Snow
From: Rupa Shenoy
Series: Water Pressure
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Our relationship with water is changing, and we can’t ignore that water’s moods are getting a lot more dramatic.

Bought by WLPR and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jul 23, 2015
  • Length: 08:13
  • Purchases: 2
Stories in Rocks
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Into the Earth
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Geologist Phil Skemer gets to crush rocks for a living. Find out how and why he and his team build instruments that can mimic conditions deep insid...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jun 12, 2015
  • Length: 12:55
  • Purchases: 1
A Volcanic Mystery
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Into the Earth
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How did the Cameroon Volcanic Line form? Geologist Aubreya Adams is on the hunt for clues.

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jun 12, 2015
  • Length: 11:58
  • Purchases: 1
A Meeting of the Sciences
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Into the Earth
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To understand rocks like banded iron formations, researcher Steven Chemtob has to approach the ancient formations in a variety of ways.

  • Added: Jun 10, 2015
  • Length: 09:12
Episode 4: How to do science, part 2: From the beach to the lab
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Measuring Marine Microbes
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If you send scientists to the beach, they may come back with the next way to produce biofuels. But it takes a lot of collaboration along the way.

  • Added: May 15, 2015
  • Length: 09:36
Episode 3: Microbial Warfare
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Measuring Marine Microbes
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It's like gang warfare, but with really tiny gang members. Some microbes provide their relatives with protection, emitting antibiotics that kill of...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 15, 2015
  • Length: 04:07
  • Purchases: 1
Death Valley Wilderness
From: Untrammeled!
Series: Untrammeled!
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Imagine a landscape dressed in trees, dressed in grass, dressed in water. Now what if you could pull that all away? What would remain? In this show...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2015
  • Length: 27:18

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