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Caption: Field Trip Podcast icon, Credit: Mike Smith
This week, Field Trip Correspondent Lo Benichou take us behind the scenes at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, California, where wounded seals...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 13:09
Caption: Field Trip Podcast icon, Credit: MIke Smith
This week we go to to the beach with Field Trip Correspondent Laura Hautala and her Science Mom. Yes, we said Science Mom. And don’t worry, it’s no...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 12:25
Caption: Couch's Spadefoot Toads, Credit: Cecil Schwalbe
When summer monsoons come to the southwest, abundant runoff leads to major problems for cities—streets flood and temporary ponds appear that serve ...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2012
  • Length: 04:55
Caption: You bet this story is about fish.
American cod fishermen are broke. Norwegian cod fishermen make $100,000/year. What's up with that?

Bought by KUOW and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jul 10, 2012
  • Length: 10:50
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Field Trip Podcast logo, Credit: Mike Smith
In this episode, we visit Leah Wade at San Francisco's Quiet Science Taxidermy Studio to learn about the art of making the dead live again ... sort...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 27:11
  • Purchases: 1
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A renowned marine biologist is studying a silent killer in oceans and bays. Allison Quantz has the story.

  • Added: May 10, 2012
  • Length: 02:39
Caption: Monique Verdin and Sharon Linezo Hong
Reporter Ben Kreimer speaks with filmmakers Monique Verdin (Houma) and Sharon Linezo Hong about their new film, My Louisiana Love.

  • Added: Apr 16, 2012
  • Length: 18:03
Caption: Autumn's colors give many people peace., Credit: Photo by Kevin Boucher
In our 21st century society we are bombarded by man-made and sometimes not so pleasing sounds. To escape this acoustic overload, many people escap...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jan 02, 2012
  • Length: 05:25
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Fall in Illinois, Credit: Kevin Boucher
In 1811, while searching for more business opportunities, John James Audubon walked across the southern part of Illinois, fell in love instead with...

Bought by WAMC


  • Added: Dec 25, 2011
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Hawthorn Tree, Credit: Google Images
Trees add shade, enjoyment, beauty and even value to property. They also serve as homes to wildlife. On the High Plains, there are some trees tha...

  • Added: May 11, 2011
  • Length: 01:52
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Aldo Leopold's legendary essay collection, A Sand County Almanac, has inspired countless conservationists and earned Aldo Leopold a place alongside...

Bought by WTIP and KENW


  • Added: Apr 07, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Trash collects in the bed of the Santa Cruz, Credit: Aengus Anderson
Tucson, Arizona would have never existed without the Santa Cruz river. Yet Tucson’s success has transformed the Santa Cruz from an intermittent st...

Bought by KUT and KVNF


  • Added: Feb 13, 2011
  • Length: 25:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Let's find out where those chemicals are Kids!   Kids of the Gottfried-Röhl-Schule
We all have a mouth and for the duration of our lives we put mainly food into it. Some people think about what goes down! Others don't care. But m...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2010
  • Length: 31:00
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You might think that the people of Southern Louisiana would be calling for major changes to the way the oil companies do business. But the economi...

Bought by KUOW


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  • Length: 07:13
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: sign in London outside Parliment house, Credit: http://www.nowpublic.com
We go to the gulf coast to hear why despite the dangerous and deadly consequences, locals aren’t ready to turn their back on the oil industry. Wha...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


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  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Mars Exploration Rover , Credit: Courtesy of National Air and Space Museum
Forget about Mary- there’s something about Mars. From its distant ice caps to volcanoes that rise twenty kilometers into Mars’ thin air… and, of c...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2010
  • Length: 06:46
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The idea of keeping shopping close to home is picking up speed, with local foods increasing in popularity and availability. Harder to understand mi...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 06:37
Caption: Lovejoy Brook Farm, Credit: Jenny Attiyeh
Lydia Ratcliff is a survivor. She's farmed her 90 acre plot of land in Andover Vermont for 43 years, and though she's now come down with chronic ob...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 01, 2009
  • Length: 09:09
  • Purchases: 1
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After Texas Horned Lizards were found living at Tinker Air Force base, government biologists and private researchers began to study the animal. Pi...

Bought by YouthCast and KUT


  • Added: Jun 11, 2009
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 2
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An audio doodle about this phrase: "Humankind is preceded by forest, and followed by desert."

Bought by KFAI, KUT, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Mar 06, 2009
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 3
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Explorer, Tibet scholar and author Ian Baker talks about his life's work, experiencing the fabled 'hidden lands' of Tibet, which are considered by ...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2008
  • Length: 16:00