PRX - Pieces for Topic: Environment

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

251 results


Piece image
This week we discuss: microplastics and your kidneys, AI's demands on energy and water, and Dr. Mark Jacobson talks about solving our energy crisis.

  • Added: Sep 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:07
Caption: Radar Images of Asteroid 2011UL21, Credit: NASA/JPL
RADAR is very powerful tool since it can precisely measure an asteroid’s position and velocity as well as in some cases yield information about it...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, KKRN, KGLP and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Artists Conception of Asteroid Impact, Credit: NASA
Astronomers measure an asteroid’s position on the sky using a two dimensional system similar to the latitude and longitude coordinates we obtain w...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Cacao, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Perhaps someday humans will travel to Mars, walk the surface of the red planet, and collect meteorites. Recent studies suggest Mars to be an excit...

Bought by KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Piece image
Last year was the hottest in recorded history, and this summer, much of the United States has already experienced record-shattering heat waves. Tha...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Aug 08, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 9
Piece image
Last year was the hottest in recorded history, and this summer, much of the United States has already experienced record-shattering heat waves. Tha...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
Piece image
New Hampshire Public Radio, in collaboration with New Hampshire PBS presents the 2024 by degrees climate summit. Over the last few years, devastati...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2024
  • Length: 52:00
Piece image
New Hampshire Public Radio, in collaboration with New Hampshire PBS presents the 2024 by degrees climate summit. Over the last few years, devastati...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2024
  • Length: 52:00
Caption: Lunar Impact Crater, Credit: NASA
During a recent 60 day period of time 23 space rocks came closer to Earth than our Moon

Bought by KCHW, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, KRWG and more


  • Added: Jul 14, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Vesta, Credit: NASA
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 KCHW, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Jun 16, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Effective Prayer - Stillness and silence, Credit: www.gabriele-publishing-house.com
In this surprising introduction to this special 7 part limited series, we ask ourselves: How can we open ourselves to spiritual healing — for the b...

  • Added: May 27, 2024
  • Length: 26:36
Piece image
Cathy shares her story of growing up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and moving to Wyoming with dreams of marrying a cowboy- which came true by way of a ch...

  • Added: May 01, 2024
  • Length: 24:01
Piece image
"What gives me hope is watching the sparkle in the eye of a child, a young mother, a middle-aged business person, or an elderly person when they im...

Bought by WOJB


  • Added: Apr 22, 2024
  • Length: 58:02
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
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
  • Purchases: 9
Piece image
In episode 2 we sit down and chat with Dr. Jason Shogren to teach us about economics and economic diversification in the 21st century. Dr. Shogren ...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 33:30
Piece image
With Oppenheimer winning 7 Oscar awards, nuclear testing and its side effects remain in conversation. Recently the U.S Senate passed a bill to prot...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
  • Length: 11:49
Piece image
We continue our series on the U. N. Sustainable Development Goals with an hour dedicated to Goal number 7 – Affordable and Clean Energy.

  • Added: Mar 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00:06
Piece image
Rebecca Burns hops on the Beyond the Range podcast to talk about economic diversification in the state!

  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 33:12

  • Added: Feb 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:02
  • Purchases: 5
Piece image
The climate crisis can feel distant — like it’s someone else’s problem — until your town is flooded, your home is damaged by storms, or you're stru...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
Piece image
On this episode, we talked about the book "Dissonant Landscapes," which explores how Icelandic musicians are often discussed in relationship to the...

  • Added: Nov 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Artists Conception Psyche, Credit: NASA
NASA classifies 2023 SZ1 as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid since it is larger than 140m in diameter and on its current path can come to about 6 t...

Bought by KCHW, Raven Radio, WYAP, RADIOLEX, KGLP and more


  • Added: Nov 05, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Piece image
Shawna Weaver talks about her new book "Climate Grief"

  • Added: Oct 26, 2023
  • Length: 12:37
Piece image
On this episode of Ways of Water Connor of Radioactive went to Maple Grove Hot Springs

  • Added: Oct 04, 2023
  • Length: 10:57
Caption: Nucleus Comet Wild-2, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Josh Hogan was asteroid hunting in the constellation Sextans with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona whe...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KCHW, Raven Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KGLP and more


  • Added: Sep 10, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10