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Catching Fire
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Catching Fire, Credit: Seth Shostak
We have too much “bad fire.” Not only destructive wildfires, but the combustion that powers our cars and provides electricity has generated a worry...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WVTF, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KIYU-FM and more


  • Added: May 08, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17
S5 EP9: Visions and Voices
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
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The Nocturnists’ Emily Silverman tells a story about how medical school satisfied much of her curiosity about the human body—but how some mysteries...

  • Added: May 05, 2023
  • Length: 44:24
Conversations: David France
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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In this episode, Emily speaks with documentary filmmaker and journalist David France about his films How to Survive a Pandemic (2022) and How to Su...

  • Added: May 02, 2023
  • Length: 46:32
2023-04-28 Lights, Camera, Inaction: Where is Climate’s Starring Role?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Hollywood has been slow to include climate in its stories. Executives fear it won’t sell – that it’s too overwhelming or depressing. Apple TV+ has ...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KGUA and more


  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 10
230428: Lights, Camera, Inaction: Where is Climate’s Starring Role?, 4/28/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Hollywood has been slow to include climate in its stories. Executives fear it won’t sell – that it’s too overwhelming or depressing. Apple TV+ has ...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: 58:56
Making Waves
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
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Jess is joined by Amani Webber-Schultz and Jaida Elcock, shark scientists and co-founders of the nonprofit organization Minorities In Shark Sciences.

  • Added: Apr 25, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Report Card: SF and Winter Storms
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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The extreme winter storms put San Francisco’s Department of Emergency Management to the test. Early in the storm cycle, the department faced challe...

Bought by KGUA


  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
The IdeaSphere
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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Author Anne Riley is not about to be stereotyped. Although she is a successful fiction writer, she has branched out into science, philosophy and dr...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Ward, Peter — "A World Without Ice Caps" Part Two
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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When the polar ice caps melt, sea level will rise. That’s happened earlier in the history of the world, and it appears it will happen again. In th...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Mar 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ward, Peter — "A World Without Ice Caps" Part One
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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When the polar ice caps melt, sea level will rise. That’s happened earlier in the history of the world, and it appears it will happen again. In th...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
EE 23-08: Who lives in a beehive?, 2/17/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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Microbiologist Irene Garcia Newton shares her knowledge about the many organisms involved in keeping a colony of honeybees healthy.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
Science, Art, and Dr. Alan Lightman
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Dr. Alan Lightman, Credit: Courtesy of “Searching: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science”
Author and MIT physicist Alan Lightman explores the similarities between artistic and scientific impulses.

Bought by WSLR, WMPG, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KZUM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jan 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
2023-01-27 Blue Carbon: Sinking it in The Sea
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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When most of us think about using nature to remove carbon dioxide from the air, we think of trees. Yet blue carbon, a new name for storing carbon ...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KGUA, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 26, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 10
20230127: Blue Carbon: Sinking it in The Sea, 1/27/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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When most of us think about using nature to remove carbon dioxide from the air, we think of trees. . Yet blue carbon, a new name for storing carbon...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
A Woman's Life is a Human Life
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Felicia Kornbluh
Some now refer to a post-Roe reality. What they’re saying is the battle for reproductive rights has shifted back to individual states. Déjà vu. Al...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 24, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Truth About Hydrogen: Green Fuel or Greenwash?
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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The fossil fuel industry has been promoting hydrogen as a reliable, low carbon, next-generation fuel to power cars, heat homes, and generate electr...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
My Expert Odyssey Part 2: Scoliosis, Pre-Diabetes, Postpartum, & Cancer
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: My Body Odyssey
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In this second of two holiday bonus episodes, we again get a bit more personal with season one expert guests whose own experiences have inspired an...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2022
  • Length: 18:46
End Kids Cancer
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Frank Kalman w/daughter Cali
Nearly 30-years ago the Committee on Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children released a new study. Not surprising, they found an abundance ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
2022-12-16 Stefan Rahmstorf: 2022 Schneider Award Winner
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Every year, Climate One grants an award in memory of pioneering climate scientist Steve Schneider, who fiercely took on the denial machine from the...

Bought by 90.5 WESA, WMUU-LP, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 11
20221216: Stefan Rahmstorf: 2022 Schneider Award Winner, 12/16/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Every year, Climate One grants an award in memory of pioneering climate scientist Steve Schneider, who fiercely took on the denial machine from the...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
Solve Climate Change Now
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Don Maruska
The mere mention of climate change can cause an unpleasant, visceral reaction. It’s a subject that we’ve avoided and denied for decades. Understand...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Healing the World's Ecosystems with the Soil Food Web
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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World-renowned soil biologist Dr. Elaine Ingham and her Soil Food Web Approach [https://www.soilfoodweb.com/] has successfully been implemented to...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
Earl Swift: Watching Waters Rise
From: Broken Ground
Series: Season 2: Environmental Writers
Caption: Author Earl Swift
Interview with Earl Swift, author of Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island.

  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:53
OutCasting 54x -- Medical transition for trans youth -- part 2 of 2
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting
Caption: Dr. John Steever, Dr. Matthew Oransky, Mt. Sinai Hospital, NYC
What are the factors to consider when young transgender people want to medically transition? OutCaster Lauren talks with Dr. John Steever, a physi...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Nov 30, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Seeking Peaceful Coexistence with Wildlife
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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This PEACE TALKS RADIO episode seeks to highlight solutions which may help humans and wildlife coexist more peacefully. It highlights the reasons ...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KMUN, KCNP, and KUNM


  • Added: Nov 21, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4

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