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Sewage Happens
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Think your city has a sewage problem? You haven't seen the half ot it.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 1
Galapagos Wind Turbines
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
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Massive wind turbines generate half of island's electricity.

  • Added: Mar 15, 2008
  • Length: 11:02
Alaska's Trumpets of Doom
From: John Ryan
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The science behind the songs of Alaska's humpback whales

  • Added: Feb 13, 2008
  • Length: 04:25
How to Make Your Own Supernova
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Will the world's largest laser be strong enough to create nuclear fusion in a can?

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WBEZ


  • Added: Jan 18, 2008
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 2
When Asteroids (almost) Attack
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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What if that Mars-bound asteroid had set its sights on Earth instead?

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Jan 18, 2008
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Mysterious Death of the Barn Owl
From: Guy Hand
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Barn owls die in larger numbers than any other animal on Idaho highways. Why?

  • Added: Jan 16, 2008
  • Length: 03:56
Invaders from Another Ecosystem
From: Making Contact
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We visit wetlands around the San Francisco Bay, where scientists are waging a scorched-marsh campaign against a devastating kind of East Coast grass.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
QUEST_How Do You Clean Up An Oil Spill?
From: KQED
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Why San Francisco's recent oil spill will be so hard to clean up.

Bought by WAMC


  • Added: Nov 16, 2007
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 1
Brazilian Multifuel Cars
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
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Brazilian Automotive developers create the car that runs on most any fuel

  • Added: Oct 12, 2007
  • Length: 06:01
Quest_Sharks of the SF Bay
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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No great whites here, but the SF Bay is teeming with 5 species of sharks.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2007
  • Length: 05:47
Ed Fowler, Master Bladesmith: Portrait of a Wyoming Knife-Maker
From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
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PRNDI-award-winning portrait of a master craftsman and his apprentice.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2007
  • Length: 06:27
Quest_The Salt Water Solution
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Is desalination the solution to the California's chronic water woes?

  • Added: Aug 17, 2007
  • Length: 05:47
Quest_Graywater Guerillas
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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A report from the frontlines of D.I.Y eco-plumbing.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 23, 2007
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 1
Grand Experiment in Wildlife Management
From: Northwest News Network (N3)
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Scientists Attempt to Move Massive Commorant Colony from mouth of Columbia River

  • Added: Jul 17, 2007
  • Length: 04:13
Global warming has a goose face in Northwest
From: Northwest News Network (N3)
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Climate change sends Artic Snow geese to pastures in the Lower 48, nibbling away at farmers' profits.

  • Added: Jul 17, 2007
  • Length: 03:43
"Creation Museum" Opens in Kentucky
From: John Hingsbergen
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Coverage of the opening of the controversial "Creation Museum" in Kentucky

  • Added: Jun 06, 2007
  • Length: 04:04
Sculpted By Fire
From: Barbara Bernstein
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Wildfire season is upon us. SCULPTED BY FIRE challenges a lot of common assumptions about forest fires and the need to wage a war on fire that is r...

Bought by KDNK, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KALW, Jefferson Public Radio, Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jun 04, 2007
  • Length: 54:05
  • Purchases: 8
Radio Physics
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
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Noah takes us behind the scenes on what makes radio work.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: May 15, 2007
  • Length: 04:12
  • Purchases: 1
Cleaning Up Washington DC's "other" river.
From: Next Generation Radio
Series: NPR's Next Generation Radio
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Cleaning up Washington D.C's "other" river.

  • Added: Apr 08, 2007
  • Length: 03:47
Humpback Whale Song
From: Heidi Chang
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Why do humpback whales sing? Some researchers are trying to solve that mystery as they take you on a wild adventure in Hawaii. Experience some cl...

Bought by Here and Now, 90.9 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station, The Nature Podcast, KRCC-FM, and The PRX Podcast


  • Added: Mar 14, 2007
  • Length: 09:49
  • Purchases: 5
Marine Harvest
From: KUOW
Series: Food for Thought: Farmed Salmon and the Future
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A look at a fish farm opened after a moratorium was lifted.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Mar 06, 2006
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 1
Environment: Recycling Questions
From: KALW
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Feature on the Successes and Failures of the Recycling Industry

Bought by WPFW, KMRE-LP, and KUNM


  • Added: Aug 10, 2005
  • Length: 06:53
  • Purchases: 3
March of the Salamanders
From: Adam Allington
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Every year the first spring rains rouse hibernating amphibians from their winter torpor. In Amherst, MA this time is punctuated by the annual Sala...

Bought by PRX to iTunes, KUOW, and The Nature Podcast


  • Added: Apr 11, 2005
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 3
Moving the Village
From: Gabriel Spitzer
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Climate change is displacing a thousand-year-old community.

Bought by KVSC, KFAI, WMPG, The Nature Podcast, CKMO and more


  • Added: Feb 15, 2005
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
RN Documentary: Musica Humana
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Musicians and doctors in Denmark compose and use music in hospitals.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KTNA, WHQR, and WCAI / WNAN


  • Added: Jun 29, 2004
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 4