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The American Robin is one of the more common birds found in North America, yet there is more to Robins than just eating worms.
Bought by 'The Sea'
- Added: Jun 22, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
The American Kestrel is the smallest Falcon, but it's still a fierce hunter.
- Added: Jun 22, 2014
- Length: 01:00
Earth Day 2014 -- The University of Washington is participating in a national competition to conserve energy and water on campus this month. The c...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Apr 17, 2014
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Communty Talk host Asirian Bowens-Wilson talks to Fareed White of Tri City Peoples Corporation about the need of Host Parents.
- Added: Nov 08, 2013
- Length: 13:20
Pazhae Horace has a summer job with California Youth Energy Services, or CYES. It’s a program that hires youth aged 15-22 to do free “green house c...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 08:52
Guess what kind of organism this is: There are billions of them in every bucket of the salty sea, some of them glow, and some are responsible for k...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 06:47
Pour light into liquid, keep a detector at the ready, and what do you get? Opportunities to keep constant track of the chemical and biological brew...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 09:50
A lot of people are talking about capturing the wind’s energy. But Jim Miller’s pointed his ears underwater, and it turns out that harnessing the w...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 07:46
The temperature in Antarctica is rising, and Hugh Ducklow is watching an entire ecosystem change before his eyes. What happens if the ice just keep...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 07:54
Autosubs look like giant yellow torpedoes. They cruise the ocean silently. But they’re watching, listening, probing, and measuring everything as th...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 08:01
Predicting how an entire body of water circulates is no easy task. To do it in Prince William Sound up in Alaska, it took 3 ships, teams deployed i...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 09:22
Twenty years ago, an environmental disaster rocked Prince William Sound in Alaska. Today, a team assembled from science, government and beyond is t...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 09:43
Climate change is impacting even one of the most remote places on Earth: Antarctica. Krill numbers are down, salp numbers are way up, and the entir...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Rutgers University students are piloting one tiny, yellow, torpedo-shaped glider across the Atlantic Ocean from New Jersey to Spain. The journey is...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 07:40
Sometimes understanding the vastness of the ocean means understanding the wee strands of DNA packed into the tiniest of cells, and how that DNA giv...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 08:36
When the tiniest of particles settle onto the deepest of ocean bottoms, they can have the biggest of influences. Fisheries collapse. Tsunamis. Ecos...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 08:38
Ocean observatories are radically changing not only the way scientists do their science, but also how they interact with one another and the wider ...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 09:17
Recording voices and composing music around those voices is one of Halsey Burgund’s specialties. And he’s got a new project where he’s collecting s...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 10:15
The Inner Space Center makes visiting the bottom of the ocean easier than going to the store. And by using some of the newest technology available,...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 09:11
Playing female right whale calls into the water, researcher Susan Parks suddenly finds herself at the center of attention of a group of males.
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 06:44
Little floats with GPS units are coursing all over the eastern seaboard, and they’re rousing community college students and lobstermen from bed at ...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 09:03
Living 1000 miles from the ocean is no reason to keep from learning everything you can about the high seas. At least that’s what high schoolers all...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 10:57
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current courses through the Southern hemisphere, cooling down and getting heavier all the while. And for the first time, ...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 09:15
What color would you paint the oceans on our planet? Blue? Try green. At least that’s what a NASA satellite 450 miles above our heads is telling us...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 09:18
Last April, a 6 foot, 120 pound robot called RU27 left the coast of New Jersey with a mission to be the first remote controlled vehicle to traverse...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 06:17