PRX - Pieces for Topic: Environment

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

718 results


The Halcyon Ocean
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Piece image
This week we are talking about ocean calm and the ways that we are affected in mind, body and spirit by a peaceful ocean. In this episode we tell t...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2019
  • Length: 04:51
The Start Of Festival
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
Piece image
The Rough Draft Diaries is finally covering The Old West End Festival! This week we'll chat with members of the OWE Festival board to get a behind-...

  • Added: May 28, 2019
  • Length: 06:01
Gregory Pardlo, AIR TRAFFIC and Economist Robert Pollin on New York’s Climate and Community Protection Act
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
Piece image
We talk with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and writer Gregory Pardlo about his searing family memoir, AIR TRAFFIC: A Memoir of Ambition & Manhood in ...

  • Added: May 23, 2019
  • Length: 59:02
The Irony of an Electric Car Named "Tesla" (And what a small town in Colorado had to do with it.)
From: H2O Radio
Series: Energy & Infrastructure
Caption: H2O Radio
Thomas Edison became a household name for inventing the first practical incandescent light bulb. But because of what happened in a small town in Co...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 24, 2019
  • Length: 05:22
  • Purchases: 2
Celebrating the Birthday of Claude 'Fiddler' Williams
From: KCUR
Series: 12th Street Jump Weekly
Caption: Claude 'Fiddler' Williams
(Air Dates: July 14 - 20) This week on 12th Street Jump, we celebrate the birthday of jazz violinist, Claude ‘Fiddler’ Williams. We find out what g...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
Sean Prentiss — "Finding Abbey" — and the way back home (Part One)
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
Piece image
In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes spoke with author Sean Prentiss.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Feb 22, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Down at the Old Schoolhouse
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Piece image
Due to the government-shutdown emergency, your host was compelled to entertain an audience at the Old Schoolhouse Museum in 29 Palms.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Security Edge: Part Five of a Seven Part Series on the Ocean Edge
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Strait of Gibraltar from space, Credit: Wikipedia Commons
In this episode of World Ocean Radio we discuss the natural security provided by the ocean edge: the barrier effect of mangroves, beaches, cliffs, ...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2019
  • Length: 04:40
Mountains and Mining (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Piece image
-Frank Newsome is an Old Regular Baptist preacher, singer of lined-out hymnody, and former coal miner in Appalachia. This remarkable singer has a n...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KXCV, WRGY, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2019
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 13
Mountains and Mining (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
Piece image
-Frank Newsome is an Old Regular Baptist preacher, singer of lined-out hymnody, and former coal miner in Appalachia. This remarkable singer has a n...

Bought by WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, Harford Community Radio, WFHB, WUGA (part of GPB) and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2019
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 10
Howard Mansfield, THE HABIT OF TURNING THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN & more
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
Piece image
We spend the hour with Howard Mansfield, first talking about his new book, THE HABIT OF TURNING THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN (Bauhan Press 2018). It’s abo...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
Episode 3: Weaponizing False Equivalence
From: Amy Westervelt
Series: Drilled
Piece image
As climate disinformation campaigns ramped up in the 1990s, oil companies and their PR firms exploited weaknesses in the U.S. media system and prop...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2019
  • Length: 17:38
Episode 2: The Turn
From: Amy Westervelt
Series: Drilled
Piece image
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, fossil fuel companies shifted their approach on global warming.

Bought by Radio Catskill


  • Added: Jan 21, 2019
  • Length: 17:56
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 1: The Bell Labs of Energy
From: Amy Westervelt
Series: Drilled
Piece image
It's the 1970s and Exxon Research and Development wants to be the "Bell Labs of Energy."

  • Added: Jan 21, 2019
  • Length: 19:18
Whatever Happened to Acid Rain?
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Piece image
It's complicated.

  • Added: Jan 17, 2019
  • Length: 32:16
Shipwrecks in the Grand Marais Harbor?
From: WTIP
Series: Historic Cook County
Caption: The Liberty in the Grand Marais Harbor, with lighthouse in the background
Lake Superior is well known as a graveyard for many shipwrecks, but some people might be surprised to learn that at least two ships have the Grand ...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2018
  • Length: 08:23
John McClow — Water wrangling in the American West (Part one)
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
Piece image
In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes talks with water law expert John McClow.

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Dec 06, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Tom Fleischner — The natural history of wellness and oneness
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
Piece image
In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes speaks with ecologist and author Dr. Tom Fleischner.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Nov 29, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Let's Visit the Chippewa National Forest: Archaeologist Sean Dunham
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Let's Visit
Piece image
An archeologist explains the history of the Chippewa National Forest

  • Added: Nov 16, 2018
  • Length: 04:51
Welcome To Dirt-Pile City
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Piece image
The aftermath of the Great Hi-Desert Deluge of Autumn 2018. In fact, officials at Joshua Tree Town Hall are considering renaming the village "Dirt-...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 09, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Peter Brannen, author of "The Ends of the World"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
Piece image
Bob Kustra speaks with Peter Brannen about Earth's mass-extinctions and piecing together the details with the world's leading paleontologists and g...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Oct 09, 2018
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 1: We The Purple
From: PurpleState
Series: PurpleState
Piece image
eTown’s PurpleState Episode 1, We the Purple, explores the structural, historical, and cultural forces that have contributed to political division ...

Bought by Angelica Community Radio and KVNF


  • Added: Oct 07, 2018
  • Length: 57:58
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 1: A Radical Approach to Disaster Relief
From: Tom Llewellyn
Series: The Response
Piece image
In the first episode of The Response, we ask the question: how do communities come together in the aftermath of disasters—often in the face of ina...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Oct 02, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
She swears if you do this, you’ll hear it…
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
Piece image
Delia Owens, the co-author of several nonfiction books on African research and wildlife, has penned her debut novel, “Where the Crawdads Sing.” Thi...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2018
  • Length: 09:50
Moonshine and Prohibition (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Piece image
-South Carolina banned the sale of alcohol in 1915. But the state itself had established its own dispensary system more than a decade earlier. -Moo...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan, Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 20, 2018
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 9

Narrow the results by Topics

Narrow the results by Formats

Narrow the results by Tones