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Climatologist/meteorologist Mark Seeley recaps 2015 weather
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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2015 was a pretty unusual year for weather. Dr. Mark Seeley, extension climatologist, meteorologist, and professor, and regular guest on Minnesota ...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2016
  • Length: 19:48
The 21st Century Maritime Museum
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Maritime Museum on the Hong Kong waterfront.
In October of 2015 Peter Neill, Director of World Ocean Observatory and host of World Ocean Radio, attended the bi-annual conference of the Interna...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2015
  • Length: 05:32
A Long Train
From: Andrew Poirier
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Reporter Andrew Poirier takes a ride on the A train from beginning to end and discovers that there is more to this train than meets the eye.

  • Added: Dec 09, 2015
  • Length: 04:22
Eat Walk Shoot Draw: A New Film on John James Audubon
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Two-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Al Reinert will premiere Audubon, a new documentary about the renowned bird artist, eloquent writer, and...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:10
Benham Farm
From: renee wilde
Series: Farmland Preservation
Caption: Jerry Benham and Stanley McMurray, Credit: renee wilde
Jerry and Jane Benham own a Century Farm that they have preserved for the next generation of farming.

  • Added: Nov 19, 2015
  • Length: 04:23
Acts of God, Acts of Men:
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Weather Made to Order? , Credit: May 28, 1954 Collier's magazine cover.
When we turn nature into a weapon.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 36:16
My Life as a Wild Turkey (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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World-renowned naturalist Joe Hutto, subject of the Emmy winning BBC documentary "My Life As a Turkey", discusses how he became a wild turkey mothe...

Bought by WCNY, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, Talking Information Center, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 19
Split Rock Lighthouse lit Nov. 10 in memory of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Nov. 10 is the 40th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. It's also the only time each year that the Split Rock Lighthouse beacon i...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2015
  • Length: 12:50
Anishinaabe Way: The Inherent Right of Sovereignty, Part 2
From: WTIP
Series: Anishinaabe Way: Lives, Words and Stories of Ojibwe People
Caption: Sonny Meyers
Article 11 of the Treaty of 1854 provides for the retained rights to hunting, fishing and gathering of resources in lands ceded by Anishinaabe trib...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Nov 10, 2015
  • Length: 07:43
  • Purchases: 1
Behaving Against Our Interests: Paul Ehrlich #110
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Today it could be argued that human beings daily act against our own self-interests. How? Biologist Paul Ehrlich and fellow scientists tell us we a...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Bandon Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KRZA, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 6
Fifty years on Mic Mac Lake
From: WTIP
Series: The Lake Superior Project
Caption: The Lake Superior Project, Credit: Logo by Lauryl Loberg
Mic Mac Lake is a remote lake within Tettegouche State Park. Along its shore are a group of log buildings that used to be known as the “Tettegouche...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Oct 01, 2015
  • Length: 08:13
  • Purchases: 1
Unspun Looks at the Sixth Great Extinction with Paul Ehrlich, Biologist, Environmentalist and Author
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Paul Ehrlich
Unspun peers into the future at the Sixth Great Extinction with Paul Ehrlich. Paul R. Ehrlich is the Bing Professor of Population Studies and the ...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9


  • Added: Sep 27, 2015
  • Length: 57:49
  • Purchases: 1
A Salt Story: West Virginia Siblings Mine the Past to Build a Future (Gravy Ep. 22)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
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While West Virginia may be known for resources like coal, the country once turned to this mountain state for a culinary staple: salt. In this episo...

Bought by WMMT, WMMT, KVLU, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WABE and more


  • Added: Sep 24, 2015
  • Length: 23:22
  • Purchases: 6
A Progressive Environmentalist
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Cecelia Tichi
Jack London is known for his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North. But, that’s overlooking the real story. London was a reporter who made n...

Bought by KVSC, KPVL, and KCBX


  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
And Now for a Different Kind of Climate Change Story...
From: H2O Radio
Series: Sounds From a Warming Planet
Caption: H2O Radio—Journalism About Water
A true account of climate scientists who didn't know about global warming, but told its story. The Vaux family thought they were just out for a fun...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KVNF, KRZA, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Sep 09, 2015
  • Length: 10:58
  • Purchases: 4
American Cougars
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Everything you didn't want to know about mountain lions!

  • Added: Aug 26, 2015
  • Length: 03:00:01
MN Reads: Breath of Wilderness: The Life of Sigurd Olson
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
Caption: Breath of Wilderness: The Life of Sigurd Olson by Kristin Eggerling, Credit: Fulcrum Publishing
We talk with Kristin Eggerling, author of Breath of Wilderness: The Life of Sigurd Olson (2014, Fulcrum Publishing), about the great wilderness edu...

Bought by KVSC and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 13, 2015
  • Length: 05:52
  • Purchases: 2
Evicted from the Mountains (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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When Shenandoah National Park was built, hundreds of families were forced off their land. Margaret Marangione says new information has emerged sugg...

Bought by WJCT, KVSC, WKCC, KRDP, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jul 30, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
Evicted from the Mountains (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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When Shenandoah National Park was built, hundreds of families were forced off their land. New information has emerged suggesting that some of them ...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WCNY, WTJU, and WXDU


  • Added: Jul 30, 2015
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 4
Every Night Ever
From: Nate DiMeo
Series: the memory palace
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A UFO hoax from 1951 featuring two barbers, their buddy, Buddy, the butcher, and a monkey.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KPIK-LP, New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Jul 20, 2015
  • Length: 08:47
  • Purchases: 6
PEI Cradle on the Waves Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Fields of sunflowers on PEI up near Souris., Credit: Charles McGuigan
The Mig Maw had a name for this place that means cradle on the waves. Which is exactly what Prince Edward Island—PEI as the people here call it—loo...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2015
  • Length: 26:31
Witching to find water
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Marc Mondavi demonstrates his divining rods.
The lack of rain has forced California farmers and wine makers to turn from the sky to the ground to find water. It’s down there, but you have to k...

Bought by KPIK-LP, KPIK-LP, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 08:42
  • Purchases: 4
Update from the Northwest Minnesota Arts Council!
From: KSRQ
Caption: Author - Kristin Eggerling
Kristin Eggerling lives in Hallock, MN, the mother of two and a freelance writer in northwestern Minnesota. She most recently worked in the public ...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 07:47
Island Stories The Scotch Bonnet Republic Part 4
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: J.B. Gaskill of Ocracoke Island, North Carolina., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Ocracoke Island North Carolina is the Key West of the mid-Atlantic. It's far removed from the mainland and the Outer Banks, surrounded by water, on...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2015
  • Length: 28:02
3 Glensheen: A Sustainable Estate
From: WDSE
Series: Glensheen: The Congdon Legacy
Caption: Glensheen beach
When you visit Glensheen, you get a glimpse into the past, of life at the turn of the last century. But this is not just a time-capsule museum, th...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Jun 17, 2015
  • Length: 04:25
  • Purchases: 1

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