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Looking for a movie that takes climate science to the masses? In the first part of this week’s episode, former Vice President Al Gore joins Climate...

Bought by WJCT, KUHF, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KPIP-LP, KCBX and more


  • Added: Jun 07, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 10
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Marshall Escamilla is part of a team of podcasters who create Tumble, a science podcast for kids and their families. With a background in music and...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 39:29
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Stephen Nash
Using the Grand Canyon as the trailhead for his book, journalist Stephen Nash sounds an alarm of urgency for protecting our national parks.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jeremy Lent
In November, 2017, over fifteen thousand scientists from 184 countries issued a warning to humanity.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 08, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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It was in 1970, under President Nixon, that the Environmental Protection Agency was founded. While the Agency enjoyed tremendous bipartisan support...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WDET Detroit Public Radio, KUNM, KWIT, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Michele Currie Navakas
Florida is an ever-changing landscape. With little warning, what was once land, becomes water, and what was once water becomes land. Frequently. E...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 01, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Cannabis CBD Oil cures with Kentucky Cannabis Company & Bluegrass Hemp Oil President & Founder Bill Polyniak. Find out how Bill and his Wife chose ...

Bought by WCNY and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Oct 04, 2017
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Glacial Ice growler. New Alesund, Svalbard, Norway, Credit: Thomas Hallermann/Marine Photobank
This week on World Ocean Radio: part one of a four-part series on the Arctic. In this episode, host Peter Neill examines governance, oversight, res...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:57
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As a young man, Rex Weyler joined early Greenpeace expeditions to document and stop commercial whaling. He went on to co-found Greenpeace Internati...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Indie3 Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
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Professor Crosby talks candidly about her bicycle accident via her memoir “A Body Undone: Living on With Great Pain.”

  • Added: Sep 15, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
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Susan Ball, MD, HIV/AIDS Clinician and author, talks about her ground-breaking book "Voices in the Band: A Doctor, Her Patients and How the Outlook...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
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Speth focuses on his memoir 'Angels By the River:Reflections on Race, Environment, Politics and Living on the Front Lines of Change.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
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After more than 430 episodes of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill takes this week to outline what the World Ocean Observatory does, and the ways ...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2017
  • Length: 05:37
Caption: Dr. Peter Kalmus
We have a choice to fight the change, or be part of the change. That has never been more apparent than when we are watching ice caps melt, heat tha...

Bought by XRAY.fm and KCBX


  • Added: Jul 25, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Dr. Rush Holt
The Trump Administration is calling for drastic cuts in scientific research and development.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 09, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Dr. Ben Santer, Credit: Commonwealth Club
President Donald Trump has sent conflicting message about climate change. One time he calls it an urgent problem. Then he refers to it as a hoax.

Bought by WCPN, KVSC, and KCBX


  • Added: Apr 05, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Want to know how heroin treatment centers in Canada, the Affordable Care Act, President Trump’s new budget, and Henrietta Lacks all fit into one co...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2017
  • Length: 53:54
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President-elect Trump, a committed opponent to climate change mitigation, will likely appoint fellow deniers to key cabinet positions overseeing ai...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2016
  • Length: 05:55
Caption: UW-Madison Bee Hive
It’s called “colony collapse disorder” or CCD. A number of years ago US beekeeping operations realized they lost between 30 and 90 percent of their...

Bought by KSFR and KCBX


  • Added: Nov 09, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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We could do a lot to improve public health and reduce runaway medical expenses if we focussed more on preventing disease and less on medical fixes,...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2016
  • Length: 02:18
Caption: Skeptic Check: Science and the Election, Credit: Seth Shostak
It’s a divisive election year, but there is public consensus that science and technology policy issues matter. So why aren’t the candidates discus...

Bought by XRAY.fm, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Oct 10, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Science is a process of determining what is reality objectively. How do we sift the subjective from the objective for understanding economic propos...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2016
  • Length: 03:59
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 -...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: May 02, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Jim Collins
Unspun honors local environmental advocates, Peggy Rebol and Dr. Jim Collins, as we look at our relationships with Mother Earth and current environ...

Bought by 'The Sea' and KMUD


  • Added: Apr 17, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Philip Warburg
American is standing on the brink of an extraordinary revolution: an energy revolution.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 29, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1