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The transportation sector is the biggest contributor to greenhouse gasses in the U.S., and cars make up most of those emissions. So how can public ...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 03:55
The study of snowfall and snowpack, and its importance in our lives.
- Added: May 19, 2024
- Length: 55:18
Literally blocking out the sun may sound extreme, but scientists are debating whether using dust particles to reflect sunlight away from the Earth ...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: May 03, 2024
- Length: 03:57
- Purchases: 1
Talking about climate change is never easy. Today, we get some tips from five experts on how to do it gracefully.
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Apr 29, 2024
- Length: 04:35
- Purchases: 1
We’ve celebrated Earth Day in the United States for more than 50 years. Today, we’re taking a look at what made the first Earth Day in 1970 such a ...
Bought by WRFA-LP and Raven Radio
- Added: Apr 22, 2024
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Last week we learned that individuals’ home water consumption doesn’t really make a dent in the water supply, and the benefit of personal water con...
Bought by Raven Radio and WRFA-LP
- Added: Apr 22, 2024
- Length: 03:37
- Purchases: 2
Saving water might not seem all that important in a humid climate like Rhode Island. But actually, there are plenty of reasons why water conservati...
Bought by Raven Radio and WRFA-LP
- Added: Apr 22, 2024
- Length: 03:26
- Purchases: 2
Today, we’re taking a look at how we dispose of our food. Next time you’re scraping a plate, should that food go into compost, your sink disposal, ...
Bought by Raven Radio and WRFA-LP
- Added: Apr 22, 2024
- Length: 03:32
- Purchases: 2
oday, we’re talking about a new study from the University of Rhode Island about microplastics in the Narragansett Bay. We look into what the findin...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Oct 31, 2023
- Length: 03:38
- Purchases: 1
World-renowned primatologist Professor Frans de Waal explores the nature of sex and gender among our cousins the apes, and how gender diversity is ...
- Added: Sep 12, 2023
- Length: 28:30
We did it. My family finally bought an electric car. What’s it like? Should you get one too? Here to help me explain is my husband, Ryan T Conaty.
Bought by PRX Remix, Raven Radio, WRFA-LP, and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Aug 07, 2023
- Length: 03:48
- Purchases: 4
Today, we have a question from a listener named Susan. She wants to know about gift wrapping: “Is it better for the environment to wrap Christmas g...
- Added: Dec 19, 2022
- Length: 03:24
- Purchases: 2
We get a lot of questions about recycling, asking what to do with aluminum cans, glass, paper, or even plastic. All this has me wondering- when did...
- Added: Nov 10, 2022
- Length: 03:33
- Purchases: 2
Paul J. Radomski talks about his new book “Walleye – A Beautiful Fish of the Dark”
- Added: Sep 29, 2022
- Length: 10:24
Today we’re answering a question from listener Molly Magid. She wants to know- what are the environmental impacts of space travel and how does it c...
Bought by Raven Radio and WRFA-LP
- Added: Jul 18, 2022
- Length: 03:26
- Purchases: 2
Host Carry Kim will be interviewing Payoomkawish Elder Richard Bugbee, Instructor of Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology at Cuyamaca College through Kumey...
- Added: Jul 04, 2022
- Length: 58:00
I’ve told the story of the yucca moths and the soaptree yuccas many times. I love to tell it when I give talks and I’m not making this up, many yea...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 04:06
Imagine if you didn’t have a recycling bin anymore- You just put everything in the trash, but somehow the reusable stuff still got recycled? Some p...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Jun 06, 2022
- Length: 04:01
- Purchases: 1
The Joshua tree is an icon and ecological keystone of the California deserts. However, climate disruption with hotter, drier summers and more frequ...
- Added: Jun 06, 2022
- Length: 58:00
With the effects of climate change all around us, there's a push to power more of our lives with renewable electricity, including things that used ...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: May 12, 2022
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 1
I started my nursery/horticulture career in the spring of 1980 at Desert Trees Nursery northwest of Tucson. It was and still is a wholesale nursery...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:16
The riparian woodland Ms. Mesquitey and I were hiking in is at around 6,000 ft. in elevation. I think that may be the upper limits of the elf owls'...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:33
Two years ago, we aired an episode responding to a question from a listener named Monica. She wanted to know if it was possible to convert her gas ...
Bought by Raven Radio and WRFA-LP
- Added: Mar 21, 2022
- Length: 03:52
- Purchases: 2
Anyone who lives in groundhog country will have a woodchuck tale or two to tell. Growing up in Kentucky I sure did. At the University of Arizona in...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 03:47
One of the most magical moments of my childhood was when I first dug up potatoes in a garden and we later had some for dinner. I was awe struck! Th...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:59
