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From the red eyes of a periodical cicada looking out: a bug's first person rendition from emergence til death.
- Added: Jun 19, 2013
- Length: 07:42
New Bedford Harbor ranks among the worst harbors in the country for surface oil spills. Harbor officials and environmental groups can’t even agree ...
- Added: Jun 03, 2013
- Length: 06:50
Three hours of music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. Collector's music so that you don't need to spend your adulthood in yo...
- Added: Apr 04, 2013
- Length: 02:55:29
In Ohio, some of the best pockets of oil and gas in the East run right under Amish country. Reid Frazier found the drilling boom is confronting the...
- Added: Mar 11, 2013
- Length: 06:37
Richmond, California is one of the lowest-income communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. It’s also one of the most toxic. On this edition, we’ll...
- Added: Feb 06, 2013
- Length: 29:00
A sculpture, called Carbon Sink, installed on the University of Wyoming campus, has generated a lot of controversy in the past couple of years. It ...
- Added: Oct 01, 2012
- Length: 07:14
Life is everywhere and we have a tough time killing it when sending our spacecraft off to Mars. However, in the lab, life is elusive. We look at th...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Aug 26, 2012
- Length: 15:03
- Purchases: 1
This week our writers all go interesting adventures, whether planned or not. Stories by Alan Eastham, Julia Nall, and Alan Reese. True stories told...
- Added: Aug 04, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Farmer Steve Mello has put down roots in “The Delta” in central California. But climate change is threatening the levees which protect Delta farms....
- Added: May 04, 2012
- Length: 29:01
Miranda Loud interviews painter Gary Dunn on the edge of Brooklyn's Prospect Park - asking him to share his ideas about the role public parks play ...
- Added: Mar 19, 2012
- Length: 05:14
What happens when your land sits on top of a rich natural gas deposit, but you don't own the mineral rights. In Wetzel County, West Virginia, many ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2012
- Length: 07:05
Editors at National Geographic Magazine detail the requirements for young explorers to qualify for expedition grants
- Added: Dec 19, 2011
- Length: 05:59
Do you know where your electricity comes from?
- Added: Sep 21, 2011
- Length: 06:24
Do you know where your electricity comes from?
- Added: Sep 21, 2011
- Length: 06:12
Do you know where your electricity comes from?
- Added: Sep 21, 2011
- Length: 06:12
How a small community of gold miners in the Colombian jungle is fighting to turn a toxic industry into a green and global market.
- Added: Jul 07, 2011
- Length: 34:24
Sustainable Design for the Future, from IEEE Spectrum Magazine and the National Science Foundation. Sustainable planning – of buildings and communi...
Bought by WNYC, KZYX, Yellowstone Public Radio, KFOK-LP, WNIN and more
- Added: Mar 24, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
A SUNY-ESF project is studying the use of willow crops as a source for heating homes and making ethanol. Now they are at a crucial moment in their ...
Bought by WAMC
- Added: Jan 16, 2011
- Length: 04:16
- Purchases: 1
Without its last remaining pheasant farm, there would be no pheasant season in NY State.
- Added: Oct 14, 2010
- Length: 07:56
Evergreen Documentary: About a hundred years ago, one of the largest wildfires in US history taught Americans to fear flames. The Big Burn of 1910...
- Added: Sep 02, 2010
- Length: 29:04
Health officials say you shouldn't eat too many local fish. In this piece, Jasmyn Belcher discovers where the message is being dropped.
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WAMC
- Added: Jul 02, 2010
- Length: 05:38
- Purchases: 2
Just in time for the global climate summit in Copenhagen and the debate on a climate and energy bill in Washington, this half hour special from Hig...
Bought by KGLT, WXDU, KGNU, KSFR, WGBH Radio Boston and more
- Added: Nov 22, 2009
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 7
Shawn Allee looks at a dioxin and soil study and how the science might influence other clean-ups around the country.
- Added: Nov 06, 2009
- Length: 03:37
Shawn Allee finds old dioxin pollution from a Dow chemical plant poses a health risk today.
- Added: Nov 06, 2009
- Length: 03:29
Shawn Allee talks with residents about living with Dow and dioxin.
- Added: Nov 06, 2009
- Length: 03:38
