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Producer Allison Salerno reports on community organizations and scientists who are working with farmworkers in Florida to safeguard themselves from...
- Added: Apr 19, 2024
- Length: 25:21
Over 100,000 people live in New York City basement apartments; most are immigrants. It’s an open secret that, while basement apartments offer cheap...
- Added: Apr 19, 2024
- Length: 31:45
When Hurricane Otis devastated the resort city of Acapulco in October 2023, Mexican authorities struggled to respond to the disaster. Producer Gret...
- Added: Apr 19, 2024
- Length: 32:08
This week on World Ocean Radio we're discussing a recent trip to Lisbon, Portugal to attend the Economist Ocean Summit. One such conversation we pa...
- Added: Apr 19, 2024
- Length: 05:04
HOUR ONE: "Deep Time: How Earth keeps time" - No one understands time like a geologist. And with the climate convulsing and the future breathing do...
- Added: Apr 19, 2024
- Length: 01:59:00
Host Diana Korte speaks with US Senator Tim Kaine from VA and former Democratic vice-presidential candidate. He is the author of a new memoir-...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 08:53
Artificial intelligence can do some pretty amazing things, including for the climate. AI can help optimize the electric grid, make heating and cool...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 58:59
Artificial intelligence can do some pretty amazing things, including for the climate. AI can help optimize the electric grid, make heating and cool...
Bought by KOWS, WGCU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 4
For her PhD, Deja Perkins is studying datasets generated by the public, also known as participatory science projects. These projects include eBird,...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
While Dara Wilson was working at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in D.C., she introduced visitors to the Amazonia exhibit. She would describe the so...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
When Adé Ben-Salahuddin stopped to help a trapped young bird on his way home from work, he found an unexpected source of help: an older Black woman...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
This episode narrated by Marcus Rosten explores the history and the birdlife of the Niagara River Corridor. Just downstream from the falls, Long-ta...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
In this episode, neuroscientist Lola Neal explores how birds are used as models to understand many neural processes, as they have cognitive abiliti...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
In this episode, Nicole Jackson and Emma Brittain announce the fifth year of Black Birders Week, a week-long celebration with events and activities...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
In 2019, several co-workers at the National Audubon Society formed a team for the World Series of Birding that focused on identifying female birds....
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Red-headed Woodpeckers excavate cavities in large, dead trees called snags. Yet, over much of the Red-head's range, snags are frequently cut down a...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
As darkness descends on a May evening, the voices of many birds go quiet. But for some birds, especially those known as nightjars, the music is jus...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
In this episode of BirdNoir, Private Eye Michael Stein gives a word of advice to Ollie, an up-and-coming gumshoe. Ollie thinks he has heard his fir...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Waterfowl like this Muscovy duckling spend up to 30 days in the egg, so they’re able to walk, swim, and feed themselves as soon as they hatch. We c...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Some birds have always called nocturnally, but other species are relative newcomers to the nighttime music scene, specifically in urban areas. Bird...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Seabirds have no problem drinking sea water. The salt they take in is absorbed and moves through their blood stream into a pair of salt glands abov...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
When you think of habitat, think of home. For a jay that lives in the forest, the forest is its habitat – where it finds food, water, shelter, and ...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Unlike many shorebirds, Willets breed inland. When nesting is done, they migrate south to both Atlantic and Pacific coastlines in the U.S. and Cent...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Sometimes in spring or summer, you might see a fledgling songbird. Like a toddler, it’s unsteady, awkward, and learning the ropes. And you might wo...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
When migratory birds fly through populated areas at night, buildings with lights on can cause them to become disoriented. And birds don’t see clear...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
