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365-Tabby's Star
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Tabby's star varies in brightness suggesting that it swallowed one or more of it's planets in the very recent past.

Bought by KKRN, KUPR low power FM, and WLPR


  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 3
How can cities keep sewage out of Great Lakes? Go underground
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: A photo of the finished Euclid Creek Tunnel, the first of 7., Credit: Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District
Combined sewer overflows are common in over 700 cities and towns in the country. Several cities are under consent decrees to solve this problem --...

Bought by WRVO Public Media, WXXI, WCPN, WCMU, and WBFO


  • Added: Jun 06, 2017
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 5
349-Big and Fast
From: Al Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Large dangerous asteroids can still appear out of nowhere.

Bought by KENW, KTRT RADIO INC, KRWG, KUPR low power FM, KKRN and more


  • Added: Apr 20, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for the week ending April 14, 2017
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: With Rollback of Obama Climate Regulations, Trump Declares War on Planet E...

Bought by WMUU-LP and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Apr 05, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Great Lakes targeted for offshore wind farms
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Lorry Wagner, CEO of LEEDCo, Credit: Elizabeth Miller
The nation's first offshore wind farm recently began operating in New England, and developers now are eying vast body of water: the Great Lakes. Pr...

Bought by WXXI, KUVO, WCMU, WRVO Public Media, WDET Detroit Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 20, 2016
  • Length: 03:28
  • Purchases: 8
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for the week ending March 25, 2016
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Challenging Elite Bipartisan Consensus: Primary Election Results Reflect G...

Bought by WRIR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 16, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine Week Ending November 28, 2014
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: New U.S. -China Carbon Targets Fall Short of Reductions Needed to Avert C...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
Game Changer
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One's National Magazine
Caption: Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change with Host Greg Dalton and audience, Credit: Ed Ritger, Photographer
Today we are looking at the impacts of climate disruption at home and abroad. Forest fires, floods, droughts and other extreme weather events are h...

Bought by Maine Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 25, 2013
  • Length: 59:57
  • Purchases: 2
Sharing Economy
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One's National Magazine
Caption: Ellen Lou, Director of Urban Design and Planning, Skidmore, Owings & Merill LLP, Credit: Rikki Ward
Tough economic times and increasing awareness about resource constraints are causing some entrepreneurs to rethink one of the basic tenets of capit...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Jun 24, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
NASA Scientist James Hansen
From: Daphne Wysham
Series: Earthbeat
Caption: NASA Scientist James Hansen
Earthbeat Host and IPS Fellow Daphne Wysham conducted a special one-hour interview with Dr. James Hansen, NASA's top climate scientist.

  • Added: Apr 24, 2011
  • Length: 52:53
The Guardian's Science Weekly: What is 'the self'?
From: Jason PJ PHIPPS
Caption: Julian Baggini, Credit: Julian Baggini's blog
We attempt to explain 'the self' with Julian Baggini; Tim Flannery tells us how love can save the environment; Brian Cox answers the 'Hannaford que...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 34:05
  • Purchases: 1
The Guardian's Science Weekly: Mathematics special + Brian Cox = science squared
From: Jason PJ PHIPPS
Caption: An equation graph, Credit: websters-online-dictionary.org
Bowing to popular demand, here's our mathematical special; plus Brian Cox, the most famous man in science, pops into the Guardian. No calculators a...

Bought by KUER and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 28, 2011
  • Length: 51:29
  • Purchases: 2
The Guardian's Science Weekly: What's Beagle 2 doing now?
From: Jason PJ PHIPPS
Caption: Beagle 2, Credit: Nasa
Colin Pillinger, the man who lost a spacecraft, tells us whether he still holds out hope of finding Beagle 2; Lester Brown discusses food bubbles; ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 06, 2011
  • Length: 39:03
  • Purchases: 1
The Guardian's Science Weekly: Monitoring climate change in the Antarctic
From: Jason PJ PHIPPS
Caption: Science Weekly podcast from guardian.co.uk, Credit: guardian.co.uk
We dial up researchers investigating climate change in Antarctica; plus, internet guru Clay Shirky explains his answer to this year's Edge Question

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 20, 2011
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 1
Gulf Spill Special
From: Alex Smith
Series: Radio Ecoshock Show
Caption: Richard Heinberg
Riki Ott, marine biologist, fisherwoman, spill expert, reports from New Orleans. Antonia Juhasz, Global Exchange, on BP & D.C. lobby. Peak Oil guru...

  • Added: May 06, 2010
  • Length: 53:00
Atomic Dreams, Climate Nightmares
From: Alex Smith
Series: Radio Ecoshock Show
Caption: Dr. Helen Caldicott, Credit: Heide Smith
Following "Climate Denial Crock of the Week", we mix pro-nuke green Shelly Thomas with warnings from anti-nuke Helen Caldicott. Plus "Meet Your New...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2010
  • Length: 24:00
Building Green
From: Bill Baue
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1