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A fundamental injustice of the climate crisis is that those who have contributed to it least are already bearing the brunt of the impacts, and that...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
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A 100 foot diameter asteroid is spotted on one of its regular trips between the orbits of Venus and Earth. Its ultimate fate is to collide with one...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Apr 24, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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What could we possibly still say to people who don't believe that human activity is destabilziing the global climate?

Bought by KMUN, KSKQ, KTSW 89.9, KICI Iowa City, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Apr 04, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
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Since March 2020, the global community has grappled with an unprecedented pandemic. At first, most people were willing to do what it takes to keep ...

Bought by KUHF, KGUA, WMUU-LP, Maine Public Radio, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Mar 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
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Since March 2020, the global community has grappled with an unprecedented pandemic. At first, most people were willing to do what it takes to keep ...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: This view of asteroid Bennu ejecting particles from its surface on Jan. 6, 2019, was created by combining two images taken by the NavCam 1 imager aboard NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft: a short exposure image, which shows the asteroid clearly, and a long-exp, Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin
The recent discovery of an asteroid, whose orbit lies completely within that of the Earth, reminds asteroid hunters to continue to search near the ...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Mar 20, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Artist’s concept illustrating a catastrophic collision between two rocky exoplanets in the planetary system BD +20 307, turning both into dusty debris. Ten years ago, scientists speculated that the warm dust in this system was a result of a planet-to-plan, Credit:  NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook
An asteroid is exiled to the outer regions of the solar system during Jupiter's rampaging tack away from the Sun long ago. During that process enou...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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One good thing about wandering the wilderness is you can escape the despair of society. Walt Whitman did it, as did Georgia O'Keeffe. Did you reali...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Night Sky, Credit: NPS
Modern technology provides us with stunning views of objects in the Universe in wavelengths invisible to our eyes, however, nothing is as moving an...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, WTIP and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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Tonight we visit with the friendly ghost of John Muir, specifically regarding his many excursions in the California deserts. New soundscapes by Red...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Growing up, Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller traveled the world with his family. On their trips, they always made time for a visit to the local zoo: in Ber...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 28:06
  • Purchases: 1
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Back from our brief convalescence to bring you desert prayers in the night — Ancient Egyptian prayers & psalms, in this case. And some tales of Mul...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 11, 2022
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
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How long has Sekhmet ruled over humanity? Five-thousand years! That’s when She is first known to us, appearing in something like her current form, ...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jan 14, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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If corporations can be legal persons, why can’t Mother Earth? In 2017, New Zealand granted the Whanganui River the full legal rights of a person....

Bought by WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WDSE and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 9
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If corporations can be legal persons, why can’t Mother Earth? In 2017, New Zealand granted the Whanganui River the full legal rights of a person....

  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
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Jason Boland joins us from Texas to talk about "The Light Saw Me," the tale of a cowboy taken up into the sky—a tale told by Jason Boland and the S...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jan 07, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: David McConville
“If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do, then how would I be and what would I do?” asked visio...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
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A postcard about Coyotes and their howl.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A postcard from Canyonlands, Utah.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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To newborns, there is no discernable difference between night and day. Evening and morning blur together in this piece as Katie Marquette rocks her...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 09, 2021
  • Length: 26:12
  • Purchases: 1
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Like the beaver, we can change parts of our environment. Like the birds, we can move to other lands or at least try. And sometimes those Other Land...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 19, 2021
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Today on Don't Cha Know, Lee Gundersheimer joins us to talk about the Fine Arts Commission Grant Award Winners. For more info on the Fine Arts Com...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2021
  • Length: 16:50
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Author and wildlife biologist Doug Chadwick discusses his new book, "Four Fifths a Grizzly: A New Perspective on Nature that Just Might Save Us All."

Bought by KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, KVNF, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 03, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: The Great Miami River as seen from downtown Dayton’s RiverScape Metro Park. This area of Dayton would have been about 20 feet underwater in 1913 following the Great Dayton Flood. , Credit: Lauren Shows
Water has a power unlike almost any other element on Earth. In large enough quantities or with enough force behind it, water can effectively lay wa...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 22:05
Caption: Joanna Macy
Deep Ecology extends an inalienable right to life to all beings. Yet as the naturalist Aldo Leopold observed, “One of the penalties of an ecologica...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2021
  • Length: 28:30