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Cold Comfort | Episode 2 | Invisible Hands
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: Winter storms are eating away at the island, but moving the whole community is expensive., Credit: Amy Martin
When a major storm hit Shishmaref, Alaska in 2005, it became a poster child for climate change in the Arctic. Dramatic pictures of houses falling i...

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, Wyoming Public Radio, KPIP-LP, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Oct 01, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 5
Cold Comfort | Episode 1 | The Water is Wide
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: Brent and Elmer play along the shoreline at dusk, Credit: Nick Mott
In Shishmaref, Alaska, no one’s asking if climate change is real. What they want to know is how bad it has to get before the world decides to act.

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, Wyoming Public Radio, KPIP-LP, KSFR and more


  • Added: Sep 24, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 6
HumaNature 30 Minute Special 28
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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“Sanctuary” A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: In 2012, 30 wolves and wolf-dogs were living at W.O.L.F. Sanctuary in northern Colo...

Bought by KMUN, KSTK, and KRZA


  • Added: Sep 20, 2018
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 3
Cold Comfort | Preview
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: Grímsey Island from the air, Credit: Studio Granada Architects
What is the Arctic, how is it changing, and why does this matter to all of us?

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Sep 17, 2018
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 1
LOVE AND BANANAS -- Lek Chailert, Ashley Bell, and John Michael McCarthy Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Ashley Belle, John Michael McCarthy. and Lek Chailer, San Francisco, CA 5/25/18, Credit: Andrea Chase
Lek Chailert, Ashley Bell, and John Michael McCarthy talk choices, chirping, and how an elephant can be like a Prius.

  • Added: Aug 01, 2018
  • Length: 28:48
Hot lava salt
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Sandip Roy in Hawai'i
Hot lava™. This is a smoky, spicy, garlic salt. But now when I look at my Hot Lava garlic salt I feel a pang.

  • Added: May 22, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Earth Day (Is Every Day) Vol. 2
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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A second PRX installment about songs about or easily relatable to Mother Earth that fall along the bluegrass > jazz sonic continuum.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2018
  • Length: 01:56:00
The Start of Escape
From: Zachary Eshleman
Caption: The sailboat "No Options" sails on the Gulf of Mexico, off of the coast of Mississippi. , Credit: Zachary S. Eshleman
It has always been my dream to live on a sailboat and travel the world. In this short audio piece, I invite the listener into the first step in the...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2018
  • Length: 05:03
JANE -- Brett Morgen Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Brett Morgen talks sound, color, and being filled with endless amounts of awe.

  • Added: Dec 17, 2017
  • Length: 18:00
Diana's Pool
From: Carol Vassar
Series: Stories & Stuff
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Even a state-imposed ban on swimming can't stop locals from enjoying a dip in Diana's Pool on a hot summer's day.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 1
WoodSongs 896: The Looping Brothers with Si Kahn and Still on the Hill
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Caption: Master musician and storytelling from Still on the Hill.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes German bluegrass trio the Looping Brothers with folksinger icon Si Kahn p...

Bought by WETS, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WLPR , WLIW, WOUB and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2017
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 6
The Sound of Science
From: Outside Magazine
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Why environmental scientists are transforming big data into music.

Bought by KWMR and KRZA


  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 19:40
  • Purchases: 2
Cloudbusters
From: Outside Magazine
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Humans are on the brink of technologies that can control the weather and possibly save us from climate change. But playing God is risky.

Bought by WFAE and KVSC


  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 29:50
  • Purchases: 2
WinterFest
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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Ol' Man Winter has become something of a quaint anachronism from another time's forgotten space. This show celebrates the clear and necessary seaso...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2017
  • Length: 01:55:08
Audio Revolution! Face The Fe - Part 2
From: Littleglobe
Series: Audio Revolution!
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In this edition of Audio Revolution! Youth Media Project interns explore their place within Santa Fe today. Amid growing concern in the Santa Fe c...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2017
  • Length: 29:49
Sound Ecology: Arcata Marsh
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An audio postcard highlighting the city of Arcata's Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary that also functions as an innovative wastewater treatment facility.

Bought by KZYX, WNED Buffalo, and Radio Newark


  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 3
Sound Ecology: Marsh Wren
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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This segment of Sound Ecology highlights the diverse songs and calls of the marsh wren in northern California. For air during spring and summer.

Bought by WNED Buffalo and Radio Newark


  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 01:56
  • Purchases: 2
Sound Ecology: Warblers
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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This segment of Sound Ecology highlights the springtime arrival of orange-crowned and wilson's warblers in northwestern California. For air during ...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 01:58
  • Purchases: 3
Sound Ecology: Aleutian Geese
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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This segment of Sound Ecology focuses on the recovery of the once-endangered Aleutian Geese that winter in northern California.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 3
RACING TO ZERO -- Diana Fuller and Chris Beaver Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Diane Fuller & Chris Beaver, San Francisco, CA 9/12/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Chris Beaver and Diana Fuller talk garbage, waste, and full-circle recycling.

  • Added: Sep 21, 2016
  • Length: 14:32
Parenting at 24,000 Feet
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Outside/In
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For alpinist Ben Clark, scaling the world’s toughest mountains was a source of pride and peace; for his parents it was a source of constant worry. ...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2016
  • Length: 18:44
KILLING THE COLORADO -- Jeffrey Friedman Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Jeffrey Friedman talks water, politics, and surviving civilization.

  • Added: Aug 04, 2016
  • Length: 08:07
The Music of the Glaciers (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The Alaskan wilderness is experiencing a major meltdown, but not all will be lost. Thanks to a musician in Virginia, the sounds of Alaska’s glacier...

Bought by KENW, WEZU, WABE, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 29, 2016
  • Length: 03:38
  • Purchases: 5
Sound Ecology: Cetaceans
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An audio postcard highlighting the wide variety of whales, porpoises and dolphins that inhabit the waters along northern California and southern Or...

Bought by KLCC, WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 4
Sound Ecology: American Dipper
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An audio postcard about the American Dipper, highlighting some behavioral and physiological aspects of this ubiquitous songbird along rivers and st...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, KRZA, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 01:27
  • Purchases: 4