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648-Smoky Nights
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Smith Telescope McDonald Observatory, Credit: McDonald Observatory
Until recently smoky nights at the observatory were rare. Now they have become more common place as wild fires continue to devastate portions of th...

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  • Added: Jun 27, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
645-Shrinking Stratosphere
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: A view of Earth's atmosphere., Credit: NASA
As a result of human caused increases in green house gases the troposphere is expanding and the stratosphere is shrinking. Between 1980 and 2018 t...

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  • Added: Jun 04, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
589-Defending Earth
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The International Asteroid Warning Network, or IWAN (Eye-Whan) for short has been established to link scientists who are discovering, monitoring, a...

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  • Added: May 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
565-Ancient Crater
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In ancient times, Aboriginal people in southwestern Australia quarried fine grained rock on an ancient hill called Barlangi Rock to make very sharp...

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  • Added: Nov 22, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
545-Celestial Congestion
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Imagine being under a clear natural night sky, with no moon, waiting to see stars down to the horizon, the Milky Way, star clusters, planets, the z...

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  • Added: Jun 28, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
439-Big and Close
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A large asteroid approached Earth from the direction of the Sun with little advanced warning.

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
356-Seeds
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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What plant seeds will be left for interstellar travelers to take with them.

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  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
328-The Heat is On
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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2016 is the warmest year the Earth has been in the more than 180 years of record keeping.

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  • Added: Feb 02, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
Deadly River: Cholera & Cover-Up in Post Earthquake Haiti
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Epidemiology Professor Ralph Frerichs
A controversy involving United Nations Peacekeeping forces, the World Health Organization, and scientists --- not to mention the people of Haiti -...

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  • Added: May 02, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Methane Leak Lessons
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The massive methane leak in California’s Aliso canyon highlights the global side effects of the fossil fuel industry on the atmosphere.

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  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 4
221-Human Geological Epoch
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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We humans are writing a record of our activities into the rock layers currently being produced on planet Earth.

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
COP-21 Accords and Near Term Human Extinction
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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195 nations and countless environmental activists were present at the 21st Conference of the Parties held in Paris, France. The Accords adopted at...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
Ebola's Exponential Rate of Contagion
From: John Brice
Series: Commentary by John C. Brice, J.D.
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The World Health Organization this week announced a horrendous fact: the number of Ebola cases in West Africa is doubling every 20 days. If this t...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2014
  • Length: 04:41