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The Python Challenge

From: casey schelhorn

Two first time radio producers travel to the Everglades intending to tell the story of a state-sanctioned Python hunt, but end up telling an altoge...

Bought by KGOU and Public Radio Remix

Pura Vida: Costa Rica's Culture of Conservation

From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Terrascope Radio Major Features

Part documentary, part sound-collage, this special explores Costa Rica, considered one of the "greenest" countries in the world, and its national e...

Empty Quarter: Recordings from the Rub' Al Khali desert

From: Soundwalk Collective
Series: Soundwalk Collective 10 Year Anniversary

Soundwalk Collective went on a 45-day journey through this Desert of deserts, the crossroads of the Arabic civilization, recording hundreds of hour...

Island Stories: Ocracoke The Scotch Bonnet Republic, Part 4

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Caption: Patti and Hardy Plyler, Credit: Charles McGuigan

Ocracoke Island North Carolina is the Key West of the mid-Atlantic. It's far removed from the mainland and the Outer Banks, surrounded by water, on...

Culturology: Minnesota Crossroads series - Tower, Minnesota

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: Culturology

Caption: Soudan Iron Formation - Banded Iron, Credit: Britt Aamodt

Every weekend this summer, vacationers from all over Minnesota and beyond its borders have packed up the family car and headed north to Highway 1. ...

Bought by KSRQ, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, and KFAI

Poling Upstream

From: Kelley Libby

This year marks the 200th anniversary of the Marshall Expedition, an important event in the history of early American commerce. Recently, a group o...

Namibia Road Trip

From: Jake Warga

Come on a self-drive road-trip through Namibia and learn how tourism is helping to conserve wildlife, habitat, and culture. PRX exclusive, slated f...

Bought by KUOW, KUT, and New Hampshire Public Radio

Tiny Forests in the Utah Desert

From: Jennifer Jerrett

Caption: A tiny forest of hairless twisted moss, Credit: NPS photo by Neal Herbert

Like trees in a forest, biological soil crusts play a key role in the ecosystems in which they are found. Damages to these tiny organisms can have ...

Bought by Moab Public Radio and Public Radio Remix

In Off-Season Tulum, More Turtles Than Tourists

From: Valerie Hamilton

If the Caribbean’s balmy turquoise charms are doubled by wintry weather at home, the argument could be made they’re halved in close succession to a...

Bought by WAMC and New Hampshire Public Radio

Aina - A Hawaiian Youth's Love for the Land

From: Dmae Roberts

Caption: Nainoa Kaiama, Credit: Richard Jensen

A teen combines new farming techniques with traditional foodways at one of Hawaii's remaining agricultural high schools to help his family's farm.

The Bridge Guy

From: Amy Gastelum

Caption: John at the top of the north tower

John Mickiewicz maintains and operates the iconic WPA built Railroad Bridge that connects Cape Cod to the mainland over the Cape Cod Canal. He love...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN

Spooky Trip Down The Ghost River

From: Candice Ludlow

Caption: Heading into the Ghost Section of the Wolf River, Credit: Candice Ludlow

Audio postcard with Keith Kirkland, an avid river geek, tells about an eerie night on the Ghost River.

Paula Hay

From: Erin Bosenberg
Series: SPACES

Paula Hay Masters student of Social Anthropology Her SPACE - the train

Transport: A Canine Journey

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Dog overpopulation is a continual problem in much of the American South, where shelters often euthanize more animals than they can save. This is th...

Bought by WRVO, WMPG, and KUOW

Lost in the Friendly Skies

From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad

Caption: The Mansions at night, Credit: Walter Murch

We fly to Las Vegas for the weekend while a racing pigeon finds her way to the farm.

Antillanca

From: Ed Herrmann
Series: Wake Up and Hear the Roses

A sound postcard from Antillanca, a ski resort in Chile. It's summer, so only the animals are there.

Bought by PRX to iTunes

Kauai Birds

From: Ed Herrmann
Series: Wake Up and Hear the Roses

A cacophony of birdsong greets the dawn in Kauai, Hawaii.

Bought by PRX to iTunes

Summer Insects

From: Ed Herrmann
Series: Wake Up and Hear the Roses

Soothing sounds from the short lived singers of summer - cicadas, crickets, and grasshoppers.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and PRX to iTunes

Newmarket: Birthplace of American horseracing faces threat to 350-year tradition

From: Liz Ruskin

Stand on a street corner at dawn in Newmarket, England and you'll see a spectacle unique in the world: 3,000 racehorses parade through town every d...

Above the Clouds in Costa Rica

From: Russell Johnson
Series: Gone Astray

Caption: Monteverde Cloud Forest, Credit: Russell Johnson

A game poacher turned park ranger explains how bad roads, bird guano and global warming affect nature in the Monteverde Cloud Forest.

Bought by PRX to iTunes

Twitching for storm petrels

From: Ari Daniel Shapiro

Caption: The broch on the island of Mousa where many a storm petrel reside in the summertime., Credit: Robert Furness

Every year thousands of storm petrels summer on the remote islands to the north of Scotland. The arduous journey to see the small seabirds demands ...

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and The Nature Podcast