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Sea Lion Rescue
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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A mysterious bacterial infection is sickening the West Coast's sea lions.

  • Added: Oct 14, 2008
  • Length: 05:03
This Beautiful Carcass
From: Joan Schuman
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On a desolate beach in Northern California's Humboldt County, a marine biologist and a citizen scientist troll for bird carcasses, inadvertently fi...

Bought by KZYX and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 15, 2008
  • Length: 11:49
  • Purchases: 2
How Do You Move an Aquarium?
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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It's moving day for a shark, penguins, and millions of scientific specimens

  • Added: Jun 18, 2008
  • Length: 05:16
Home Brewing
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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brewing beer in the driveway

Bought by WABE, KUT, KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, and NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: May 17, 2008
  • Length: 07:34
  • Purchases: 5
Tree Rings Reveal Worse Droughts are Due
From: Addie Goss
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Ancient trees reveal the West has over-allocated its water. Climate change could only make things worse.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KZYX


  • Added: Apr 21, 2008
  • Length: 04:53
  • Purchases: 3
CalEarth
From: Eric Molinsky
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Meet the house that beats an earthquake, stays cool without air conditioning, doesn't harm a single tree and costs less than a used car.

Bought by WMPG, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, PRX Remix, American Voices, PRX to iTunes and more


  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 08:42
  • Purchases: 7
Alaska's Trumpets of Doom
From: John Ryan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The science behind the songs of Alaska's humpback whales

  • Added: Feb 13, 2008
  • Length: 04:25
Quest_Sharks of the SF Bay
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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No great whites here, but the SF Bay is teeming with 5 species of sharks.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2007
  • Length: 05:47
Quest_Flying Cars
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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NASA is sponsoring a technology contest to revolutionize small planes -- and it's open to the general public.

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Aug 24, 2007
  • Length: 05:47
  • Purchases: 1
Ed Fowler, Master Bladesmith: Portrait of a Wyoming Knife-Maker
From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Caption: PRX default Piece image
PRNDI-award-winning portrait of a master craftsman and his apprentice.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2007
  • Length: 06:27
Synthesizing Spider Silk
From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Caption: PRX default Piece image
If they can synthesize it, researchers hope to save lives with spider silk.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 30, 2007
  • Length: 05:37
  • Purchases: 1
Cell Tower
From: Lu Olkowski
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Don Ingber is a cell biologist from Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital. One day he saw a piece of modern sculpture and was inspired to mak...

Bought by Remix Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2007
  • Length: 06:17
  • Purchases: 1
Cleaning Up Washington DC's "other" river.
From: Next Generation Radio
Series: NPR's Next Generation Radio
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Cleaning up Washington D.C's "other" river.

  • Added: Apr 08, 2007
  • Length: 03:47
Chuck the Seal Learns to Speak
From: BSR Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A young harbor seal named Chuck at the Boston Aquarium performs his fledgling talent

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jan 09, 2007
  • Length: 13:20
  • Purchases: 1
Wind Theory
From: Ed Herrmann
Series: Wake Up and Hear the Roses
Caption: PRX default Piece image
the sound of a new explanation of the universe

Bought by PRX to iTunes and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 12, 2006
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
Spring Peepers
From: Ed Herrmann
Series: Wake Up and Hear the Roses
Caption: PRX default Piece image
frogs sing near Lake Michigan

Bought by KVSC, PRX to iTunes, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 12, 2006
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 3
Jazz from Enceladus
From: Ed Herrmann
Series: Wake Up and Hear the Roses
Caption: PRX default Piece image
what's hot on Saturn's tiny moon

Bought by PRX to iTunes and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 12, 2006
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
Hypnosis
From: Nathanael Johnson
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Comedy hypnotists at county fairs have come to fill the space once occupied by the freak-show tent.

Bought by KTNA and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 21, 2005
  • Length: 05:32
  • Purchases: 2
March of the Salamanders
From: Adam Allington
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Every year the first spring rains rouse hibernating amphibians from their winter torpor. In Amherst, MA this time is punctuated by the annual Sala...

Bought by WABE, PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes, KUOW, and The Nature Podcast


  • Added: Apr 11, 2005
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 5
In Defense of Bad Weather
From: Guy Hand
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A good natured defense of bad weather.

Bought by KPIK-LP, PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes, and WGCU


  • Added: Feb 25, 2005
  • Length: 07:54
  • Purchases: 4
Werner the Wormer
From: Zachary Barr
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2,000 people in Maine make their living digging for bloodworms. Meet Werner Rhode, worm digger.

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX, The Nature Podcast, and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Jul 07, 2004
  • Length: 04:19
  • Purchases: 3
The Tongass National Forest Part One
From: Guy Hand
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The wet and wild nature of Alaska's Tongass National Forest, the largest intact temperate rain forest in the world.

Bought by PRX to iTunes, The Nature Podcast, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Dec 11, 2003
  • Length: 11:11
  • Purchases: 3