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Sustainable Aluminum -- Groks Science Show 2024-01-03
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Saleem Ali discussed his book, Soil to Foil.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KDX Worldround Radio, RadioFreePalmer, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 03, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
The Rest of the Story: Indigenous Resistance
From: Making Contact
Caption: United States Supreme Court Building, Credit: Wikimedia Commons
We revisit two sites of indigenous resistance we've covered in the past: First we talk to Rebecca Nagle about the Supreme Court ruling upholding th...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 04, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Into the Deep
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Into the Deep, Credit: Seth Shostak
Have you ever heard worms arguing? Deep-sea scientists use hydrophones to eavesdrop on “mouth-fighting worms.” It’s one of the many ways scientist...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], CHSR-FM 97.9, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WRGY, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Sep 18, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
RESCUE, part 24: Ocean Finance Reform, Step by Step
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week we continue the multi-part RESCUE series by listing some of the most critical changes and improvements required to create a new, sustaina...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2023
  • Length: 05:14
RESCUE, part 17: Technology & the Ocean Pharmacopeia
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week the multi-part RESCUE series continues with an examination of familiar products derived from the ocean that we use to support our ways of...

  • Added: May 03, 2023
  • Length: 05:04
This Week in Water for January 29, 2023
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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How to Help Poor Countries Protect Nature. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KRZA, KGNU Community Radio, WYAP, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jan 29, 2023
  • Length: 05:58
  • Purchases: 5
How Inmates Are Saving an Iconic American Landscape—and Themselves
From: H2O Radio
Series: Conservation and Sustainability
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The Biden administration recently announced it's considering new measures to protect the greater sage-grouse—birds best known for their spectacular...

Bought by KRZA, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 22, 2021
  • Length: 05:22
  • Purchases: 3
Living with Environmental Contaminants
From: KZMU Moab Community Radio
Series: Science Moab
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The Colorado Plateau is host to many environmental contaminants, both natural and man-made. These dangerous substances can find their way into wat...

Bought by KDXI - Radio St George


  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 20:44
  • Purchases: 1
Living Planet 10/15/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Lives at stake: Baka people in Cameroon, lithium mining in Nevada and industrial fishing in Sierra Leone - Around the wor...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Oct 15, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Living Planet 07/16/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: The water we drink, the air we breathe - When we think of the things that are most vital to our lives, what comes to mi...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Jul 16, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Batteries, the Rare Metal Quandary and the Deep Sea
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Hydrothermal vent extraction, Credit: © Nautilus Minerals
This week on World Ocean Radio: part twenty-eight of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode we talk about batteries, increasingly in dema...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 05:26
Living Planet 01/08/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Greener pastures post-Brexit, invisible waste & the abuse environmentalists face online - We hear how new measures in the...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Jan 09, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
World in Progress 12/05/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: We visit two very different parts of the world where mining is raising big concerns among local communities: In Australia,...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
This Week in Water for June 23, 2019
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Are Nitrates in Water Causing Cancer? That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KRZA, KKFI, and KSFR


  • Added: Jun 23, 2019
  • Length: 06:41
  • Purchases: 4
Rivers, Extraction and Science in the Four Corners
From: KZMU Moab Community Radio
Series: Science Moab
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We speak with author/journalist Jonathan Thompson about mining history in SW Colorado and its impacts on rivers. His book “River of Lost Souls: t...

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


  • Added: Jun 18, 2019
  • Length: 27:58
  • Purchases: 5
Dana Frank on the Long Honduran Night
From: Making Contact
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June 2019 marks ten years since then President of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, was ousted in a military coup. In this program, Dr. Dana Frank, author ...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2019
  • Length: 29:59
World in Progress 04/25/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Brazil's new President Jair Bolsonaro has been vocal in not caring much about protecting the world's largest rainforest. M...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
Living Planet 02/15/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: When it comes to the health of our planet, we often look to the example set by others. This week on Living Planet, we take ...

Bought by KMUN, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KSUT, and WFIU


  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
Deep Sea Mining Update, part one
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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There has long been public opposition to deep sea mining, a technology that extracts resources from the ocean floor. In this episode of World Ocean...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2018
  • Length: 05:23
Sierra Leone's Conflict Diamond Trade (2004 NPR's Day2Day)
From: Hechtech
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David Hecht reports on the condition of Sierra Leone's diamond trade

  • Added: May 08, 2018
  • Length: 05:07
This Week in Water for February 4, 2018
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Chevron Says If They Did It, Others Did It, Too. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KKFI, KRZA, KSFR, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 04, 2018
  • Length: 06:41
  • Purchases: 4
Cedar Grove
From: Catherine Moore
Caption: Ye Must Be Born Again, Credit: Roger May
Is this post-industrial town dying, or being born again? Drawing from 300 years of labor and women’s history, the writing of novelist Mary Lee Sett...

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: Aug 03, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Canadian Threat to Alaska Salmon
From: Reade Levinson
Caption: Construction outside of Juneau, Credit: Reade Levinson
Alaska is the last place on Earth with a thriving wild salmon fishery. Today, new open-pit copper and gold mines in development in British Columbia...

Bought by KUOW and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 06, 2016
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 2
The Write Question - Samuel Western - 250
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Journalist and novelist Samuel Western talks about the characters in his novel, 'Canyons,' tension in fiction, cowboys, guns, hunting, and the high...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSJD, KGLT, Yellowstone Public Radio, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Rural Up! Code Academy – Intro to Tech Careers
From: WMMT
Series: Making Connections
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Most folks agree that rural Appalachia needs high speed, broadband internet to create a new economy in the region. But if such a network is built, ...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2016
  • Length: 04:27