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In the past decade, dams have been targeted as outdated, inefficient energy providers with serious impacts for the immediate and downstream environ...
- Added: Sep 23, 2013
- Length: 05:15
Today we live with the weather as never before. Access to weather information is all around us. The news is continuously driven not just by more s...
- Added: Sep 09, 2013
- Length: 05:05
Soil. We treat it like dirt, yet it holds vibrant communities of microscopic organisms that affect public health. Join Food Sleuth Radio host and ...
- Added: Sep 06, 2013
- Length: 28:00
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will share his practice of carrying blue marbles with him wherever he goes, gifting them to ...
- Added: Aug 19, 2013
- Length: 05:06
Recent studies by a collaboration of research scientists, institutions and vessels have discovered a new ecological habitat: microbes colonizing an...
- Added: Aug 12, 2013
- Length: 05:07
In this episode of World Ocean Radio we'll discuss Russia's changing maritime presence: inter-regional trade on the Baltic, a seeming lack of coope...
- Added: Aug 06, 2013
- Length: 05:20
Only a farmer can describe the boots-on-the-ground realities of raising our nation's food supply. Howard Vlieger is a farmer and crop nutrition ad...
- Added: Aug 02, 2013
- Length: 28:00
In today’s EcoReport feature, USDA Forest Service Researcher, Dr. Louis Iverson, summarizes a recent report about climate change and how it will af...
- Added: Aug 01, 2013
- Length: 29:12
USDA Forest Service Researcher, Dr. Louis Iverson, summarizes a recent report about climate change and how it will affect certain species in the Mi...
- Added: Aug 01, 2013
- Length: 07:52
In this episode of World Ocean Radio we'll share approaches, discussions and consensus from the Ocean Exploration 2020 Forum on a number of ocean s...
- Added: Jul 29, 2013
- Length: 05:15
In this episode, we look at how civic scientists can gather useful data on their surroundings. We go to the Bay Area where a series of rooftop carb...
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 15:35
- Purchases: 2
The global expansion of the palm oil industry is one of the largest upheavals in modern agricultural history - and one that many Americans know not...
- Added: Jul 23, 2013
- Length: 30:00
52 Hz is the name given to a mysterious whale that vocalizes at a different frequency than other whales. Some refer to him as "The World's Lonelies...
Bought by WJCT
- Added: Jul 18, 2013
- Length: 15:17
- Purchases: 1
Dr. Lance Grande discusses his new book, "The Lost World of Fossil Lake: Snapshots from Deep Time."
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Jul 17, 2013
- Length: 20:48
- Purchases: 1
Not long ago, we were told that North America had entered a new era of energy abundance thanks to shale gas. Or, have we? If you’ve listened to ex...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jul 10, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
The ocean is a valuable resource for new medicines, treatment for present and future diseases, and is a potential major contributor for the future ...
- Added: Jul 08, 2013
- Length: 05:32
Some architects say there are just some buildings that should never have been built: buildings that violate human rights by design.
Bought by MPR News Stations, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and The Story
- Added: Jul 02, 2013
- Length: 16:47
- Purchases: 3
In this episode we look at how delicate desert ecosystems are affected by climate change. Then the impact of toxic metals on Rocky Mountain streams.
Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA
- Added: Jul 02, 2013
- Length: 15:11
- Purchases: 1
One week before super storm Sandy hit, oceanographer John Englander released his book about the short, medium and long term scenarios we can expect...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 25, 2013
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 1
Reduce, reuse, recycle. The words "reduce" and "recycle" are common in our modern society, but what does it mean to reuse? In this episode of World...
- Added: Jun 24, 2013
- Length: 05:12
Dr. George Waldbusser discusses oysters and ocean acidification.
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KPVL, and WRNC-LP
- Added: Jun 20, 2013
- Length: 29:40
- Purchases: 3
On June 8th we celebrate World Ocean Day to recognize our relationship with the ocean through global connection. In this episode of World Ocean Rad...
- Added: Jun 17, 2013
- Length: 05:18
In the last edition of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill suggested reciprocity as a value on which to build our response to the environmental deg...
- Added: Jun 03, 2013
- Length: 05:13
Indiana Department of Natural Resources Property Manager Jim Allen discusses ecological and other issues surrounding the three year project drainin...
- Added: May 23, 2013
- Length: 08:04
In today’s EcoReport feature, Indiana Department of Natural Resources Property Manager Jim Allen discusses ecological and other issues surrounding ...
- Added: May 23, 2013
- Length: 29:29
