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For the first time in 35 years, Mexican and American scientists are working together to study the Ixtoc 1 spill, a massive oil blowout that happene...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Feb 01, 2016
- Length: 09:03
- Purchases: 1
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill happened just a few years ago. But it might be possible to predict its impact on the Gulf years into the future by ...
- Added: Feb 01, 2016
- Length: 08:08
California wants to deprive you of fuel, and that's why you're already paying a new "global warming" tax.
- Added: Sep 03, 2015
- Length: 15:58
Recorded on an iphone while on vacation 2 miles away from a wildfire.
Recorded for KCRW's 24 Hour Radio Race.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Aug 17, 2015
- Length: 04:35
- Purchases: 1
Our Desired Future is a 30 minute radio documentary designed for public radio to educate Texans on the interdependence of our groundwater, springs ...
Bought by Marfa Public Radio and KWBU
- Added: Jun 12, 2015
- Length: 54:57
- Purchases: 2
Can the Appalachian Mountains recover from centuries of mining? What will happen to the thousands of coal miners projected to lose their jobs in th...
Bought by Wyoming Public Radio
- Added: Apr 28, 2015
- Length: 51:59
- Purchases: 1
More than a million acres of strip-mined land—an area the size of Rhode Island—are now deforested in Appalachia.
Bought by WMMT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 24, 2015
- Length: 06:18
- Purchases: 3
Who came up with the name 'Earth Day'? It turns out, a legendary Madison Avenue ad man named Julian Koenig. He was responsible for some of the most...
Bought by KMXT, WSLR, KUOW, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more
- Added: Apr 21, 2015
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 7
In Florida's Miami-Dade County, tensions are mounting over a fragment of endangered pine rockland.
- Added: Feb 17, 2015
- Length: 13:31
Bringing wolves back to the West has tested the legal system’s tolerance for restoring wild places Especially when humans live nearby. This year...
- Added: Nov 07, 2014
- Length: 16:25
- Purchases: 2
Kesterson Wildlife Refuge had a little known problem back in 1982: selenium contamination was leading to birth defects and death in fish and birds....
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 16:03
- Purchases: 1
The internet has put whistleblowers in the public eye, and the government’s crosshairs. The world’s biggest institutions are running scared and cra...
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Questioning the threat to moose in Maine
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 07:07
- Purchases: 2
Every year for the past few years, tens of thousand of flytraps have gone missing – from the wild, from gardens, from nurseries. And, really, nobod...
- Added: Apr 24, 2014
- Length: 21:00
- Purchases: 3
Coal is embedded into the culture and image of Eastern Kentucky, but the industry is declining in the region. And it's declining permanently. The c...
- Added: Dec 12, 2013
- Length: 18:17
Biologist Steve Murawski is leading a new team of researchers trying to figure out the long-term impact of the Deepwater Horizon spill—not just on ...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Nov 05, 2013
- Length: 08:03
- Purchases: 1
Atlantic salmon numbers are dropping all over the world. In the US, they can only be found in seven rivers. All of them are in Maine.
- Added: Aug 07, 2013
- Length: 05:54
A proposed east-west highway across the state of Maine has been on the minds of legislators since it was included in the original proposal for the ...
- Added: Aug 02, 2013
- Length: 07:41
Making a living is a struggle this year for Maine lobster fishermen - due in part to strong conservation regulations.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Mar 25, 2013
- Length: 06:45
- Purchases: 1
Two first time radio producers travel to the Everglades intending to tell the story of a state-sanctioned Python hunt, but end up telling an altoge...
- Added: Mar 09, 2013
- Length: 15:34
- Purchases: 2
Features a discussion with The New Yorker's Elizabeth Kolbert about the impact of climate change on enviromental health, human health, and human ri...
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 20:35
Greg Auger's life was forever changed when he met the bat researching legend Don Griffin. This is the story of the two men, a pond, and what happen...
- Added: Dec 06, 2012
- Length: 08:05
A profile of Occupy's first politician
- Added: Sep 21, 2012
- Length: 07:06
In late 2011. the federal government decided to demolish five old seaside cottages on Cape Cod that were at threat of being washed away due to coas...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 29, 2012
- Length: 08:26
- Purchases: 1
Whitebark pine trees, once a feature of the mountainous west, are under attack. Nearly two-thirds have died from beetle attacks and other causes, h...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Mar 17, 2012
- Length: 05:56
- Purchases: 1
