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Learn how scientists are using social to monitor endangered monk seals and the people who see them in the wild.
- Added: Jan 19, 2018
- Length: 04:25
In 1993, a man in Steamboat Springs, Colorado was found dead in his home. He’d been burned with a stun gun, hit with a shovel, and shot several tim...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 20:56
- Purchases: 2
In 1993, more than 1,000 levees broke along the Mississippi River, flooding thousands of acres. In most cases the floods were seen as an “Act of Go...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 30:08
- Purchases: 1
As long as 2,500 years ago, Native Americans placed the bones of the dead in giant mounds of earth in the shape of animals. The Effigy Mounds Natio...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 28:20
- Purchases: 1
The UnCommonCore Podcast is about the ideas, experiences and perspectives that make us different from each other. Content includes live to tape rec...
- Added: Dec 31, 2017
- Length: 47:02
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
Recorded live to tape from the streets, businesses, trade shows, homes, garages, work spaces, factories and classrooms, The UnCommonCore Podcast ex...
- Added: Dec 01, 2017
- Length: 55:54
For the next few episodes TriPod dives into the city’s messy relationship with water through a new series called NOLA vs. Nature. First up: a look ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 30, 2017
- Length: 11:45
- Purchases: 1
For over 20 years, Jerry Taylor was a leading spokesperson for climate skepticism. He waged TV battles against climate activists on the likes of CN...
- Added: Nov 06, 2017
- Length: 41:51
On the front lines of climate change, the Inuit of the high Arctic - together with scientists, educators and policymakers – are fighting a battle f...
Bought by KBBI Alaska, KUHF, NPR Now, and KWIT
- Added: Oct 26, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
Fruition Chocolate was founded in 2011 by Bryan Graham and is based in Woodstock, USA. The company is known for stone-grinding cocoa beans as a mea...
Bought by WCNY
- Added: Oct 06, 2017
- Length: 26:24
- Purchases: 1
Theo Chocolate was founded in 2006 by Joe Whinney and Debra Music and is based in Seattle, USA. The company is known as being the first organic, fa...
Bought by WCNY
- Added: Sep 22, 2017
- Length: 33:16
- Purchases: 1
Cacao Hunters was founded in 2013 by Carlos Ignacio Velasco and Mayumi Ogata and is based in Popayán, Colombia. The company is dedicated to finding...
- Added: Aug 25, 2017
- Length: 39:06
This is all probably more than you wanted to know, but what the yucca moths tell us is that there are, no doubt, hundreds of thousands of pollinato...
- Added: Aug 03, 2017
- Length: 05:06
From: Barb Seaman
The Forest Service would allow hiking access only if a volunteer group formed to caretake the trail. So the Cape Horn Conservancy was born. Now t...
- Added: Aug 03, 2017
- Length: 05:27
At the signing of the declaration of independence, Benjamin Franklin was quoted as saying, "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all ha...
- Added: Jul 29, 2017
- Length: 04:55
Ritual Chocolate was founded in 2010 by Robbie Stout and Anna Davies and is based in Park City, USA. The company makes small-batch, bean-to-bar cho...
- Added: Jul 28, 2017
- Length: 33:48
The Penobscot Nation lives on the river that shares their name. Just upstream from their island reservation is Juniper Ridge, Maine’s largest landf...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WRIR
- Added: Jul 23, 2017
- Length: 13:04
- Purchases: 2
On this edition of Making Contact, we’ll meet people challenging polluters in their own backyard, not to push hazardous industries into another nei...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WRIR
- Added: Jul 23, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
There’s more than just fish and sand in the Great Lakes – there are thousands of ships, airplanes, and other vehicles under the water. A story on ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, WRVO Public Media, WCMU Michigan, WXXI Rochester and more
- Added: Jul 21, 2017
- Length: 03:34
- Purchases: 8
In this "experimental" installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, it's Fishing on the Radio as Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff ...
- Added: Jun 27, 2017
- Length: 35:23
The “body farm” at Texas State University is a place almost no one except researchers and law enforcement is able to see, because it’s one of very ...
- Added: Jun 05, 2017
- Length: 31:13
On Making Contact, we present a two-part series on the pressure to transform a region of iconic landscapes and environmental stewardship into a glo...
- Added: Jun 04, 2017
- Length: 57:21
- Purchases: 4
The story of two explorers chased down—well, technically up—by a jaguar.
- Added: Jun 01, 2017
- Length: 28:08
What are the Best Wine Inventions for 2017? Some of these are Hilarious.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: May 30, 2017
- Length: 01:00:00
- Purchases: 1
