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Elizabeth Arnold heads out on an ice breaker in the Bering Sea

Bought by KCHU, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KDUR, KTRT RADIO INC, WMNF and more


  • Added: May 21, 2009
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 6
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Meet Charlotte, bioengineer by day, avid dumpster diver by night.

Bought by WILL, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: May 19, 2009
  • Length: 04:28
  • Purchases: 3
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Access to water in Colorado has been an enduring challenge for miners, farmers and cities. But no matter how valuable this resource may be, it’s th...

  • Added: May 14, 2009
  • Length: 09:06
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Hear the haunting voices of the loon on a summer day with host Richard Nelson

Bought by KCHU, KTRT RADIO INC, KDUR, KMXT, WMNF and more


  • Added: Apr 29, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 6
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Kivalina is on the frontlines of global climate change where an island is literally washing away.

Bought by KCHU, KDUR, KTRT RADIO INC, WMNF, KRUA and more


  • Added: Apr 29, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 7
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Call it the Manure Mandate. California’s utilities face a state-ordered goal: Provide one-fifth of electricity from renewable resources by 2010. No...

Bought by KMXT and KOSU


  • Added: Apr 28, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Think you know how to conserve water? Not like Australia, mate, it's in its worst drought on record. Some toddlers Down Under don't even know what ...

Bought by KMXT and KOSU


  • Added: Apr 28, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Garbage and noise. Sounds like the latest rock group. But no, turns out the two are much more useful. In fact, garbage and noise are actually being...

Bought by KMXT and KOSU


  • Added: Apr 28, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Okay, so you’re out in the clear waters of Hawaii and notice that algae are smothering the beautiful coral reefs just below the surface. What’s goi...

Bought by KMXT and KOSU


  • Added: Apr 28, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
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University of Calgary biology professor, Peter Dunfield, has been to hell and back looking for ways to keep methane gas out of the atmosphere.

Bought by KMXT, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and KOSU


  • Added: Apr 28, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
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Midwestern settlers of yesterday would feel unsettled by what they’d see there today. They wouldn’t recognize the forests for the trees. According ...

Bought by KMXT and KOSU


  • Added: Apr 28, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
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If your friends call you an “early adopter," you’ll want to take note of MIT student Ben Gulak’s way-cool emission-free vehicle. It looks like a cr...

Bought by KMXT and KOSU


  • Added: Apr 28, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is killing fire ants using a method that sounds like it was inspired by the movie Alien.

Bought by KMXT and KOSU


  • Added: Apr 28, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
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You think gas is expensive? What about the price of platinum? Believe it or not, that’s one of the things the automotive industry is looking at be...

Bought by KMXT and KOSU


  • Added: Apr 28, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Hudson Valley Youth in a new gardening project

  • Added: Apr 02, 2009
  • Length: 01:45
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If you build it, they will come. But they might not come back! This is what Brazilian engineers learned recently in their effort to save fish stocks.

Bought by KMXT and KOSU


  • Added: Mar 25, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
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“Cradle-to-Cradle” is the newest buzz in green manufacturing circles. It’s the next evolution of the idea of “Cradle-to-Grave, ” where recycled mat...

Bought by KMXT and KOSU


  • Added: Mar 25, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Henry Ford had the right idea. Back in the early 1940s, he developed the world's first "bio-car."

Bought by KMXT and KOSU


  • Added: Mar 25, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
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There’s a fungus among us that could become a more environmentally-friendly way to weatherize your home, or business.

Bought by KMXT and KOSU


  • Added: Mar 24, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
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The hand bone's connected to the wrist bone, the wrist bone's connected to the arm bone, and so on and so on. That was a great campfire song. Turn...

Bought by KMXT, KBGA 89.9 FM, and KOSU


  • Added: Mar 24, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
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Considering all the animals trapped in the Los Angeles La Brea Tar Pits, you’d think the gas it’s belching up is caused by something that it ate. A...

Bought by KMXT and KOSU


  • Added: Mar 24, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
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To the world-at-large, global warming is anything but a game. But if you happen to be on the Internet, it can be. That’s where you’ll find a game ...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
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Interviews with several scientists about how nature teaches us to be resilient.

Bought by WRGY, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Mar 12, 2009
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Catch the news and weather at 10 tonight along with the day’s carbon report. Carbon report? That’s right. NOAA has developed a system to track carb...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Feb 25, 2009
  • Length: 01:30