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So Far From Care Episodes 5 & 6
From: Marfa Public Radio
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In this special broadcast of episodes 5 and 6 of So Far From Care, we return to Marfa for two different stories. This tiny desert town is often ro...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
So Far From Care Episodes 1 & 2
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: So Far From Care
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In episode 1, "Don't Cut The Cord," you’ll get the lay of the land in the Big Bend— what it feels like to live in a place where getting care has al...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 53:30
AMOS 23-212: The Palo Verde, It's Easy Being Green, 10/24/2023
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
The Palo Verde, It's Easy Being Green

  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 23-143: Sipping from Snake Scales, 7/19/2023
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Sipping from Snake Scales

  • Added: Jul 10, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
Kenyan Ecologist Paula Kahumbu’s SECRETS OF THE ELEPHANTS
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Award-winning African ecologist Paula Kahumbu, co-author of SECRETS OF THE ELEPHANTS, is one of the world’s preeminent advocates for elephant conse...

  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 10:31
Desert Reflections
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week on World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reflects on a recent trip to Egypt, a dry desert land in the heart of Africa, the civilizations of ...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2022
  • Length: 05:15
Battlefield Earth
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Well you'll never guess who joined us all the way from Whitesburg, Kentucky, to talk about the particular desert landscape of SE New Mexico and Eas...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 21, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for November 13, 2019
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Weeks of Protest Leads to Coup, Ousting Bolivia’s First Indigenous Presid...

Bought by WKPW


  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
AMOS 19.220: Saguaro Boot, 11/4/2019
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Saguaro Boot

  • Added: Sep 16, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 19.213: How Plants Survive in the Desert, 10/24/2019
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
How Plants Survive in the Desert

  • Added: Sep 16, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
Dynamic Desert Ecosystems
From: KZMU Moab Community Radio
Series: Science Moab
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Changes are happening in plant communities in deserts of the Colorado Plateau and around the world. We speak with Dr. Steve Archer from the Univer...

Bought by KDXI - Radio St George, KGNU Community Radio, and KRZA


  • Added: Sep 12, 2019
  • Length: 24:40
  • Purchases: 3
Life In The Sahara
From: Jason Kladiva
Series: World Pieces
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World Pieces host Jason Kladiva learns about nomads in the Sahara from Ali Fakiri in M'hamid el Ghizlane, Morocco.

  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 05:10
Holy Rangers
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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In the chaos of a dysfunctional government, who will protect the wilderness and public lands, our national parks and monuments, our nature preserve...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 04, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Travel Options for the Collapse
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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What happens when a civilization collapses? You can't go camping in Joshua Tree, that's what.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jan 14, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Highways & Aliens
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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We're taking a big looping road trip across the Mojave, from Area 51 to the Singing Sand Dunes of Kelso. With guest Jeremy Corbell on his new docum...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 30, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Culmination of the Pleiades
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Many wonders over the desert skies—both known and unknown—give reason to be out on cool autumn nights, celebrating rituals.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 09, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Welcome To Dirt-Pile City
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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The aftermath of the Great Hi-Desert Deluge of Autumn 2018. In fact, officials at Joshua Tree Town Hall are considering renaming the village "Dirt-...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 09, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Lycanthropes of the West
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Werebears and skinwalkers and other creatures of our haunted lands. With Jeremy Corbell, director of the new documentary Hunt for the Skinwalker.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Sep 21, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Solar & Wind Power for the Sahara Desert
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
Caption: Merzouga, Morocco Sahara desert camel trek, Credit: Evaldas Liutkus/Flickr/CCO
Solar and wind farms would provide abundant electricity to the Sahara desert, and result in increased rainfall and vegetation as well.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, KENW, WTIP, and WLPR


  • Added: Sep 08, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 5
Salvaging the living soil
From: KZMU Moab Community Radio
Series: Science Moab
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Biological soil crusts are an enigmatic sight on the Colorado Plateau. In this show, we explore what biocrusts are doing out in the desert. We spea...

Bought by KDXI - Radio St George and KRZA


  • Added: Jul 15, 2018
  • Length: 26:41
  • Purchases: 2
How carbon moves through the desert
From: KZMU Moab Community Radio
Series: Science Moab
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The desert both breathes out and pulls in carbon to and from the atmosphere. Here we talk with Dr. Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi about that process by ex...

Bought by KDXI - Radio St George, KGNU Community Radio, and KRZA


  • Added: Jul 15, 2018
  • Length: 27:28
  • Purchases: 3
Anemone Tuberosa
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Desert anemone (Anemone tuberosa) is in the Buttercup Family. Buttercups are the genus Ranuculus and so the family name is Ranunculaceae. It’s prob...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2018
  • Length: 05:22
O’odham before Old Chukson (Tucson)
From: KXCI
Series: Cultivating Indigenous Voices
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In the very soil of the surrounding mountains of Tucson and within the city boundaries lays an age-old history of this local tribe and this story i...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2018
  • Length: 36:27
Sandgrouse - Desert Water-carriers
From: BirdNote
Caption: Burchell's Sandgrouse, Credit: Ian White
Sandgrouse live in some of the most parched environments on earth. To satisfy the thirst of their chicks, male sandgrouse carry water back to the n...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jan 26, 2016
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
The Spiritual Edge: Bay Area Jews head to the desert to reclaim their Biblical roots
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - The Spiritual Edge
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Berkeley-based Wilderness Torah is one group that’s trying to bring new meaning to the old tradition. Intrigued, I tagged along this past spring fo...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 11:58