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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
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
Is hydrogen fuel a climate solution? That depends on how you produce it. Dr. Emre Gençer of the MIT Energy Initiative joins MIT's TILclimate podcas...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 13:44
Renowned biologist and author Dr. Sandra Steingraber talks about her efforts to push back against the expansion of natural gas pipelines and relate...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 29:00
Since larger space rocks are rare, it was surprising when my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groller found a half mile diameter asteroid travel...
Bought by KGLP, KKRN, and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jun 16, 2024
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 3
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
The U.S. Constitution refers to treaties with other sovereign nations as “the supreme law of the land.” But what happens when promises have been ma...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 14:01
In 2013, a train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec. The dangers of oil trains are part of the controversy around Enb...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 18:56
There’s no safe way to move crude oil across an entire continent. So what risks are we willing to take? And who bears the brunt of that risk? Over ...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 19:13
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
Rails are secretive marsh birds, and they’re on the decline. But a researcher playing their recorded calls over a loudspeaker could help bring them...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 09:13
Lake Superior’s northern shore has been home to woodland caribou for thousands of years. But now, the species is facing local extinction. Some blam...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 16:27
According to an Anishinaabe prophecy, manoomin – wild rice – is what brought the Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi peoples to the Great Lakes.But starti...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 11:40
America’s bird, the bald eagle, is facing a tremendous challenge. As scavengers, they feed on what we and other animals leave behind. But lead cont...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 13:03
Harmful algal blooms are a growing concern in the Great Lakes. The toxins they produce can close beaches and even poison drinking water. What’s fue...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 13:45
Flying squirrels glow pink under a blacklight. How many other mammals do this? What causes them to glow? The hardest question of all might never be...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 17:50
States in the Great Lakes kill beavers and remove dams on select rivers and streams. They’re doing it, in part, for anglers and the multi-billion d...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 14:14
Invasive species often spread by hitching a ride on anglers, especially anglers who don’t clean their gear after fishing. Though this is widely kno...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 13:07
In October 1960, Prince Akihito of Japan visited Chicago for 21 hours. Chicago’s mayor presented the prince with a diplomatic gift: 18 bluegill. Wh...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 12:32
Red-eared sliders are one of the most common pet turtle species in the world. But they can grow to the size of dinner plates and can live around 40...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 11:42
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
Deer culling is common across the Midwest. Cities often hire sharpshooters or allow hunters to kill a certain number of deer. But one community in ...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 18:30
Small, silvery fish called kiyi used to roam the deep, cold waters of nearly every Great Lake. Remnant populations still exist in Lake Superior, an...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 10:51
Food justice activist and writer Rae Gomes joins Jess to talk about what we get wrong about food in the United States, and what we can do to make t...
- Added: Jun 11, 2024
- Length: 29:00
