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“It's the end of the world where we thought nature was an infinite resource and we could exploit it without consequence,” Professor Richard Weller ...
- Added: Aug 03, 2017
- Length: 57:07
More than 34 million Americans provide unpaid care to an older adult every year, according to AARP. Managing an aging parent’s health care can be c...
- Added: Jul 02, 2017
- Length: 07:40
A United States outdoor clothing store sells coats, labelled to assure us that the down is from US Ducks Independently Verified to Have been Neith...
- Added: Feb 22, 2017
- Length: 01:17
The 1979 Ixtoc-1 oil spill spewed millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, but has since been largely forgotten. More than 35 years late...
- Added: Feb 15, 2017
- Length: 09:50
By sending pipe from a moving ship roughly three miles down to collect sediment and rocks a third of a mile beneath the sea floor in an ocean trenc...
- Added: Aug 28, 2016
- Length: 04:22
More than 50 volunteer programmers gathered in Austin on May 15 to use Big Data to fight the spread of Zika.
- Added: May 24, 2016
- Length: 07:50
- Added: Mar 01, 2016
- Length: 21:10
Ten years later and thousands of miles away, Hurricane Katrina lives on.
- Added: Dec 02, 2015
- Length: 27:58
Chemical weapons have played a chilling role in human history ever since World War I. As accounts of recent uses permeate the news, we decided to f...
- Added: Nov 07, 2014
- Length: 44:21
Traces of heavy metals that reflect the health of a whole ecosystem can be found in vials of blood from osprey chicks. Researchers from the Montana...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM, KBGA 89.9 FM, and Radio Newark
- Added: Apr 04, 2014
- Length: 07:19
- Purchases: 3
90% of the world's goods are carried by cargo ships. And the oceans they sail on are streaming with wind: High tech wing sails used on America's Cu...
Bought by Hark!, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WTIP, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 15, 2013
- Length: 06:41
- Purchases: 5
We use natural gas to heat our homes and generate our power. Can we use it to fuel our cars? Big Gas thinks shale gas is the key to cleaning up our...
- Added: Dec 22, 2011
- Length: 06:57
We need to move forward to find a cause for Autism without fear to question and innovate and just maybe get closer to understanding what we're deal...
- Added: May 16, 2011
- Length: 12:41
A UC Berkeley researcher is attacking toxic hydrocarbons left over from oil spills with microbes, earthworms, and a few acres of land. Catherine Gi...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Aug 11, 2010
- Length: 04:45
- Purchases: 1
25 million or so people in Africa have died from aids and almost that many have the disease.
- Added: Mar 19, 2009
- Length: 01:11
- Added: Nov 20, 2008
- Length: :40
Plastic is lighter than steel
Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920
- Added: Nov 19, 2008
- Length: 01:18
- Purchases: 1
It is cold enough without throwing in the windchill factor
- Added: Nov 17, 2008
- Length: 01:59
- Added: Oct 25, 2008
- Length: :20
The floating sustainable greenhouse in New York City
- Added: Jul 29, 2008
- Length: 17:07
- Added: Jul 18, 2008
- Length: 01:59
- Added: Jul 08, 2008
- Length: :25
- Added: Jun 08, 2008
- Length: 02:03
- Added: Jun 04, 2008
- Length: 01:58
Market pressures are making it difficult for everyone to start businesses these days, even those businesses designed to relieve pressure.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: May 02, 2008
- Length: 04:14
- Purchases: 1
