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Greater wax moths have evolved the ability to hear sounds at frequencies even their predators can't detect.
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Seabirds and their eggs help scientists track global pollution.
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Why itsy-bitsy-teeny-weeny backpacks may be the key to understanding how animals capture prey.
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 03:43
We often take safe food for granted until a foodborne illness outbreak makes national news, or affects us personally. Join Food Sleuth Radio host a...
- Added: May 19, 2013
- Length: 28:00
Unborn baby sharks gobble up their brothers and sisters in the womb.
- Added: May 17, 2013
- Length: 01:00
How do we advance sustainable practices in a world driven by the profit motive? Public policy that mandates the use of renewables by private compan...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: May 07, 2013
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
For years, a mysterious “colony collapse disorder” has been killing honeybees across the nation. This year, commercial beekeepers have reported los...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: May 07, 2013
- Length: 02:27
- Purchases: 1
Spotting a rainbow requires a bit of luck—you know, being in the right place at the right time. But not if you make them yourself. For over two wee...
- Added: May 07, 2013
- Length: 53:51
WTIP's Buck Benson welcomed Duluth News-Tribune outdoors editor Sam Cook to The Roadhouse May 3, where they talked about fishing openers past and p...
Bought by KFAI
- Added: May 07, 2013
- Length: 23:28
- Purchases: 1
Climate change could make snowshoe hare camouflage less protective.
- Added: May 06, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Who would have thought that worm castings could replace an expensive irrigation system on a Florida farm? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registere...
- Added: May 06, 2013
- Length: 28:00
In this month’s show, we examine three issues that build on the relationship between environmental stresses and conflict. First, we examine the imp...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: May 03, 2013
- Length: 40:01
- Purchases: 1
The Carbon Tracker Initiative and the Carbon Disclosure Project are two ongoing, vital efforts to help us better understand how much fossil fuels a...
- Added: Apr 30, 2013
- Length: 29:30
Giant East African land snails are wreaking havoc in South Florida.
- Added: Apr 30, 2013
- Length: 01:00
The Ceres Conference is an annual gathering where organizations as different as the Sierra Club and Shell come together to discuss ways to accelera...
- Added: Apr 25, 2013
- Length: 30:00
A listener asks why some trees live for thousands of years.
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 01:00
90 second modules that celebrate the natural world and bring the wonder of nature into daily life
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 34:30
The sun provides less than one percent of American electricity. But there is a solar surge underway and the number of installations grew 75 percent...
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 58:57
Brent Sicard, President and CEO of Lueken’s Village Foods grocery stores, announced plans for the local chain to grow and sell its own produce, as ...
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 20:16
There is little disagreement that urban farming translates into increased access to local, sustainable, and healthy food, and that this is a very g...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Apr 16, 2013
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
Author Frances Moore Lappe describes herself as a “possibilist” rather than an optimist or pessimist. In her recent book, she argues that solutions...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 15, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
LouAnn Shepard Muhm is a widely published poet and teacher living in northern Minnesota. She has been featured in the mnartists.org series "What Li...
- Added: Apr 10, 2013
- Length: 01:42
Are you interested in knowing the facts about the Keystone XL pipeline? Well, depending on the source, the “facts” vary wildly. Proponents tout the...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Apr 09, 2013
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
Inspired by animals, researchers have created robots that can traverse sand.
- Added: Apr 08, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Mysterious “fairy circles” on African plains are caused by termites, which destroy patches of grass but help the surrounding grass thrive.
- Added: Apr 08, 2013
- Length: 01:00
