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Lead - The Pernicious Poison
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Doug and Patti speak with "Lead Safe Mama" Tamara Rubin

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 16, 2024
  • Length: 58:22
  • Purchases: 1
Hormone Trouble with Dr. Tom Zoeller
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Endocrine disrupting chemicals in everyday products can alter how your body works.

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Sep 09, 2024
  • Length: 29:16
  • Purchases: 1
Toxic Tragedy
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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The Story of Monsanto's Infamous Weed Killer - with Carey Gillam

Bought by WRFA-LP and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 09, 2024
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 2
240829: THINK: Decoding the Secret Language of Animals, 8/29/2024
From: KERA
Series: Think
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THURSDAY, 8/29 Did you know dolphins call each other by name? Krys Boyd talks with a zoologist about new research into how animals communicate.

  • Added: Aug 28, 2024
  • Length: 58:54
Climate Connections September 2 - 27, 2024
From: ChavoBart Digital Media
Series: Climate Connections
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This month of Climate Connections seasonal allergy season is lasting longer than it used to, what to do when your vegetable garden floods, a public...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KRSC, KCNP, WNIJ, KTSW 89.9 and more


  • Added: Aug 27, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 18
Living with Climate Change with Dr. Mary Johnson
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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After the news, Harvard MD and researcher Mary Johnson talks about how the climate is impacting public health.

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  • Added: Aug 26, 2024
  • Length: 29:16
  • Purchases: 1
The Curse of PFAS with Dr. David Bond
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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PFAS "Forever chemicals" are toxic to humans. Now we're learning that the companies that make PFAS chemicals knew it all along.

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  • Added: Aug 26, 2024
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 2
811-Martian Meteorite Hunters
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Cacao, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Perhaps someday humans will travel to Mars, walk the surface of the red planet, and collect meteorites. Recent studies suggest Mars to be an excit...

Bought by KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Climate Connections August 5 - August 30, 2024
From: ChavoBart Digital Media
Series: Climate Connections
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This month on Climate Connections New Jersey launches a heat awareness campaign, California moves to protect indoor workers from heat, a Maryland ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, WNIJ, WNIN, Northwest Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jul 29, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 20
Plastic's Endless Toxic Existence with Erica Cirino
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Author Erica Cirino talks about her work at the non-profit Plastic Pollution Coalition.

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  • Added: Jul 22, 2024
  • Length: 28:33
  • Purchases: 2
Are sewers the best way to deal with stormwater?
From: Possibly
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Paved surfaces like roads, sidewalks, and driveways send stormwater into our sewers, but engineering solutions that filter water through the ground...

Bought by WRFA-LP, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 15, 2024
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 4
Eco Report - June 21, 2024
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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In this week's feature report, WFHB News Correspondents Noelle Herhusky-Schneider, Kade Young and Madison Stratton investigate Indiana's efforts t...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2024
  • Length: 30:38
Are we close to 100% renewable energy?
From: Possibly
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For decades now, people have been installing solar panels, wind turbines and more to transition our energy to renewable sources – but we wondered, ...

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KTNA, and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jun 17, 2024
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
Standing Up to the Natural Gas Industry with Dr. Sandra Steingraber
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Renowned biologist and author Dr. Sandra Steingraber talks about her efforts to push back against the expansion of natural gas pipelines and relate...

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  • Added: Jun 17, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Doe, A Deer, A (Sterilized) Female Deer
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: Points North
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Deer culling is common across the Midwest. Cities often hire sharpshooters or allow hunters to kill a certain number of deer. But one community in ...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 18:30
What are wilderness areas and why do they matter?
From: Possibly
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For decades wilderness areas have provided access and protection to millions of acres of land. Today, climate change is shifting how we think about...

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  • Added: Jun 10, 2024
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 1
Why did I see a bunch of dead fish in the Providence River?
From: Possibly
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One Possibly listener wondered why she saw so many dead fish in the water last spring. Turns out it’s called a fish kill – which can happen when th...

Bought by WRFA-LP, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and Raven Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2024
  • Length: 03:48
  • Purchases: 3
How can buses become a climate solution?
From: Possibly
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The transportation sector is the biggest contributor to greenhouse gasses in the U.S., and cars make up most of those emissions. So how can public ...

Bought by WRFA-LP, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana


  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 03:55
  • Purchases: 3
Global Plastics Crisis with Dr. Leo Trasande
From: Doug Wood
Series: Grassroots
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After the news, Dr. Trasande, a delegate to the UN conference on plastics, talks about plastic as a human health issue.

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  • Added: Apr 29, 2024
  • Length: 28:09
  • Purchases: 1
Testing for Toxins with Leah Segedie
From: Doug Wood
Series: Grassroots
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Mamavation is the leading site for independent testing of consumer products. We talk with founder Leah Segedie.

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  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 28:11
  • Purchases: 1
The Glyphosate-Autism Connection
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Dr. Stephanie Seneff of MIT talks about her research linking pesticide residues in food to the destruction of gut bacteria and link to autism.

Bought by WMUU-LP and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jan 29, 2024
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 2
782-Probing The Cosmic Web
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: A Cosmic Thread, Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Feige Wang (University of Arizona)
In the past two decades astronomers have discovered that galaxies are not randomly distributed in space but rather occur along filaments of mass wi...

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  • Added: Jan 21, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
The Stink Over PFAS with Tracy Frisch
From: Doug Wood
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Scientist Dr. Tracy Frisch explains why spreading fertilizer from sewage sludge is a really bad idea.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jan 16, 2024
  • Length: 28:09
  • Purchases: 1
This Week in Water for January 7, 2024
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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How Whales Might Help Us Communicate with Extraterrestrials. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KRZA, KGNU Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Jan 07, 2024
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 6
This Week in Water for December 10, 2023
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Phase Down? Or Phase Out? That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KMXT, KRZA, KGNU Community Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 10, 2023
  • Length: 06:05
  • Purchases: 8