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Welcome to Sound Pollution! Listen in as independent musicians share their inspirations, songwriting processes, and upcoming projects/shows. Sound Pollution is your home for open conversations, awesome music, and maybe even a little advice from trailblazers in the field.
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Light Pollution News

Light Pollution News

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The path to neighborhood friendly starry night solutions begin with being a more informed you! Ever wish you could see the stars at night? Well, here's your chance to join the conversation around how we can create a sustainable and equitable night that benefits people as much as it does ecology. Light Pollution, once thought to be solely detrimental to astronomers, has proven to be an impactful issue across many disciplines of society including ecology, crime, technology, health, and much mo ...
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The podcast on plastic, people, and the planet by @anjakrieger. Plastics have become the basis for our modern lives, but they also pollute the planet. Will we be able to develop a healthy relationship with these materials weโ€™ve created? Follow Anja on a journey into the world of synthetic polymers, their impacts on nature and ourselves, and the global quest to tackle plastic pollution. Her episodes feature a diverse set of voices and viewpoints and explore the issue from many different angles.
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Eco Chamber

Environmental Data Services (ENDS)

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Every week, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories, shines a spotlight on some pretty nasty chemicals, and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today. Read more on the issues covered at www.endsreport.com or follow us on Twitter @TheENDSReport Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Your Planet, Your Health

Ralph Levinson & Luc Lewitanski

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"Your Planet, Your Health" strives to summarise the science behind earth's climate and our existence on it โ€“ Our aims are to contextualise the history of discourses and ideas about the environment and to debunk misinformation โ€“ We share positive stories, and explore the knowledge and tools that we can use to be good earthlings. This podcast on planetary health is hosted by Ralph Levinson, MD Health Sciences Professor (emeritus) School of Medicine, UCLA, and Luc Lewitanski, a journalist cover ...
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New discoveries, everyday mysteries, and the science behind the headlines โ€” in just under 15 minutes. It's science for everyone, using a lot of creativity and a little humor. Join hosts Emily Kwong and Regina Barber for science on a different wavelength. If you're hooked, try Short Wave Plus. Your subscription supports the show and unlocks a sponsor-free feed. Learn more at plus.npr.org/shortwave
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Rising temperatures and extreme weather have become the new normal - but all is not lost. In this podcast series about finding hope on a changing planet, The Times's Environment Editor Adam Vaughan sets out to understand what exactly is happening to the world around us and meets the experts trying to hold back the tide. Planet Hope is a podcast from The Times and The Sunday Times in partnership with Rolex and its Perpetual Planet Initiative, which supports individuals and organisations who g ...
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Science Friday

Science Friday and WNYC Studios

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Covering the outer reaches of space to the tiniest microbes in our bodies, Science Friday is the source for entertaining and educational stories about science, technology, and other cool stuff.
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If youโ€™ve ever found your blood pressure rising because some guy down the street doesnโ€™t know how to keep the trigger on a leaf blower pulled all the way, then youโ€™ve experienced noise pollution. Not only is it annoying, it turns out itโ€™s deadly too! Learn all about it in this classic episode. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.โ€ฆ
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This episode is with Kevin Ronca film/tv director and Co-Founder of Write Brain TV, an Anti-Imperialist streaming service. Links to them here: https://writebraintv.com/ https://x.com/WriteBrainTV https://www.instagram.com/WritebrainTV/ https://www.instagram.com/kevinroncafilmmaker/ IG: โ https://www.instagram.com/polluteyoursoul/โ  X: โ https://x.com/โ€ฆ
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This episode's guests: Steve Mariconda, MPH. Frank Turina, Educator / National Park Service / Night Sky Resource Center. Bill's News Picks: โ€˜This is a big winโ€™: Planning Commission embraces โ€˜dark skiesโ€™ for Rappahannock County, Bob Hurley, Rappahonnock News. A CT man claims state courts donโ€™t comply with a certain law. Why he says it matters., Seanโ€ฆ
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You have probably given some thought to outdoor air pollution, whether itโ€™s wildfire smoke or smog from traffic. You may even check AQI measurements on your phone. But what about the air inside your home? Host Flora Lichtman talks to civil and environmental engineer Nusrat Jung, who studies indoor air pollution, about how we create toxic air withouโ€ฆ
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First up on the podcast, Staff Writer Rodrigo Pรฉrez Ortega joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about a megafauna megafind that rivals the La Brea Tar Pits. In addition to revealing tens of thousands of bones from everything from dire wolves to an ancient human, the site has yielded the first DNA from ammoths that lived in a warm climate. Next on the shโ€ฆ
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After 11 days of talks between 180 nations in the middle of a heatwave, the final session dragged late into the night. The next morning we learned that the plastics treaty talks had - again - ended without an agreement to tackle plastic pollution. So after recovering from this intense week, Anja got in touch with Alexandra Harrington. Alexandra is โ€ฆ
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Welcome back to the podcast, we are so happy you joined us for the show. This week we are learning all about the band Mean Gloss. Join us while we learn about the band, how they got together, influences, songwriting, writers' block, the stories behind the songs and so much more. This group is going to go places so don't forget you learned all aboutโ€ฆ
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Dietary supplements are big business, with one recent estimate showing the industry is worth almost $64 billion in the United States alone. Take a casual scroll through your social media and youโ€™ll find influencers hawking all kinds of supplements. But how effective are they? How are they regulated? And why are these โ€œnaturalโ€ remedies so appealingโ€ฆ
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Nous nous entretenons avec Lourdenie Jean, une jeune environnementaliste qui a confondรฉ L'environnement, c'est intersectionnel. Cet organisme met en lumiรจre les enjeux vรฉcus par les personnes qui sont le plus marginalisรฉes par la crise climatique. Envoyez-nous vos questions pour le podcast ร  [email protected] Et n'oubliez pas de passer ร  l'action โ€ฆ
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Christopher Nolanโ€™s Interstellar was a phenomenon in 2014. Set in the future, Earth has been struck by a global crop blight. Former NASA pilot Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) is pulled into a NASA mission to transport the human race to a new planet, via wormhole. Back on Earth, Cooperโ€™s daughter, Murph (Jessica Chastain), attempts to complete an equatโ€ฆ
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Put on your party hat and wet suit because it is Cephalopod Week, Science Fridayโ€™s annual celebration of all things, octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish. To kick things off, weโ€™re bringing you an ode to the octopus arm. You may have heard that octopuses can use their arms to โ€œtasteโ€ their surroundings, which they use for finding food. Now, researchersโ€ฆ
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U.S. consumers spend more than $10 billion a year on sports drinks, according to Beverage Industry, a trade publication. And we canโ€™t lie that sometimes a Gatorade or electrolyte tablet sounds really appealing in the quest to hydrate daily โ€“ especially since itโ€™s been a very hot, long summer. But the question is: Are we even sweating enough to warrโ€ฆ
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Executive Director Andrew Dehoff and the commission's Surface Water Supervisor Mike College talk about the spike in data center interest in the greater watershed and what that could mean for the greater watershed. The discussion includes what data centers are, why they use so much water and what alternatives can bโ€ฆ
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On August 27, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the White House fired CDC director Susan Monarez after only a month on the job. Right after she was ousted, other senior leaders resigned from the agency, including Demetre Daskalakis, an infectious disease physician and former director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory โ€ฆ
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Mars is known for its barren desert landscape and dry climate. But two recent studies in the journals Nature and Science go beneath the surface, exploring the interior of the red planet using seismic data from NASAโ€™s InSight mission. And now, this data is also giving scientists a glimpse into the planetโ€™s history โ€“ to see how Mars evolved over billโ€ฆ
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First up on the podcast, despite so many advances in treatment, HIV drugs can suppress the virus but canโ€™t cure the infection. Where does suppressed HIV hide within the body? Staff Writer Jon Cohen joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the Last Gift Study, in which people with HIV donate their bodies for rapid autopsy to help find the last reservoiโ€ฆ
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๐™ƒ๐™ค๐™ฌ ๐™˜๐™–๐™ฃ ๐™ฌ๐™š ๐™ข๐™ค๐™ซ๐™š ๐™ค๐™ช๐™ง ๐˜พ๐™ก๐™ž๐™ข๐™–๐™ฉ๐™š+ ๐™’๐™ค๐™ง๐™ก๐™™ ๐™ฉ๐™ค๐™ฌ๐™–๐™ง๐™™๐™จ ๐™– ๐™ข๐™ค๐™ง๐™š ๐™ก๐™ž๐™ซ๐™–๐™—๐™ก๐™š, ๐™š๐™ข๐™ฅ๐™–๐™ฉ๐™๐™š๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™˜, ๐™จ๐™ช๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™–๐™—๐™ก๐™š, ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ โ€“ ๐™™๐™–๐™ง๐™š ๐™„ ๐™จ๐™–๐™ฎ โ€“ ๐™ข๐™ค๐™ง๐™š ๐™˜๐™ค๐™ข๐™ฅ๐™–๐™จ๐™จ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™–๐™ฉ๐™š ๐™ฅ๐™ก๐™–๐™˜๐™š? Check out epsiode 53 of the Climate+ Podcast, where Lincoln sits down with Ali Horriyat, founder of the nonprofit Compassiviste to explore how we can move beyond awareness-raising to create actionable change around sustaiโ€ฆ
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Earlier this summer, astronomers discovered something strange whizzing past Jupiter: an interstellar object. Scientists named it 3I/ATLAS. Itโ€™s only the third interstellar object ever observed, and itโ€™s due to leave the solar system by the end of the year, so the race is on to learn as much as we can about it. Host Flora Lichtman talks with astrochโ€ฆ
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Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UKโ€™s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments in environmental policy. This week, ECO Chamber host James Agyepong-Parsons speaks with deputy editor Tess Colley about the chemicals industryโ€™s attempts to influence UK politicians on regulating forevโ€ฆ
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For a long time, scientists have suspected that stuttering โ€” a common speech condition that affects an estimated 1 in every 100 people โ€” could be heritable. Despite how common it is, it's still a remarkably understudied condition. Geneticists Piper Below and Dillon Pruett were determined to fix that. With the help of 23andMe data, they recently ideโ€ฆ
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Planet Hope returns for a third series โ€“ sharing stories of resilience, discovery and hope. Join Adam Vaughan, Environment Editor at The Times, as he meets extraordinary people from penguin guardians in Patagonia to pioneering neuroscientists giving new hope to people with paralysis. New episodes drop every Friday. Planet Hope is brought to by The โ€ฆ
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In some places, sand dunes protect shorelines from the onslaught of ocean waves. In other places, the dunes themselves are on the move, and threaten human structures. Host Flora Lichtman talks with mechanical engineer Nathalie Vriend, who studies the structure of sand dunes, about what makes a heap of sand a dune, and what scientists still hope to โ€ฆ
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In 1964, the future for children born with Cystic Fibrosis was grim - most faced a life cut tragically short. Today, the majority of people living with CF in the UK are adults, a testament to extraordinary medical progress. We meet Annabelle who lives with Cystic Fibrosis, and once believed she might not see her 18th birthday. And we hear from Dr Iโ€ฆ
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There's still no business case for Canada shipping LNG to Europe/Germany and the rise of artificial intelligence doesn't change that fact. Plus a quick rant about the dangers of declinism, framing, and why staying optimistic is vital: historical moments of 'decline' are also periods with the opportunity for fundamental change to happen in a positivโ€ฆ
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More than 1 in 10 people in the United States take an antidepressant. And the most commonly prescribed type of antidepressant are SSRIs โ€” or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. That includes drugs like Zoloft, Prozac and Lexapro. But what happens when some patients decide they want to stop taking their SSRIs? While doctors know stopping SSRIs โ€ฆ
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Summer may be winding down, but weโ€™re not quite ready to let go of beach days, backyard cookouts, or ice cream cones. We love ice cream here at SciFri, so weโ€™re pulling a few of our favorite ice cream science stories out of the freezer this week. Back in 2015, ice cream expert Maya Warren sat down with Host Ira Flatow to help us understand a sciencโ€ฆ
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Monday night football is back! What better way to celebrate than a close look at some of the physics powering the sport? Specifically, the spiral pass. If you've ever watched part of a professional football game, you've probably seen a tight spiral pass. They're those perfect throws where the football leaves the player's hand and neatly spins as itโ€ฆ
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This episode originally aired on October 18, 2021: In this episode, some of the Terra Informers reflect on the film In the Land of Dreamers, which is an episode of the CBC Gem show, Absolutely Canadian. The film uses amazing photography and video footage to talk about the cultural and ecological importance of the Muskwa-Kechika, a large area of undโ€ฆ
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A pair of old timey fossil hunters had a rootinโ€™ tootinโ€™ rivalry that spilled from academic journals into the American Wild West - where fossils were dynamited and employees turned double agent. Learn about the two-fisted origins of American paleontology in this classic episode. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.โ€ฆ
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Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana, and the levees designed to protect New Orleans failed. Huge swaths of the city flooded, and 1,600 people were trapped inside Charity Hospital. Physician Erica Fisher was working in Charityโ€™s emergency room at the time, and she and her colleagues fought for days to keep their patients aโ€ฆ
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The United Nations estimates that there were over 1.5 million new cases of skin cancer in 2022. That number might have you reaching for the nearest tube of sunscreen. And it might also have you wondering what truth there is to the hype around Korean and European sunscreens. Click around online and youโ€™ll see lots of claims about the superiority of โ€ฆ
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๐‡๐จ๐ฐ ๐œ๐š๐ง ๐ฐ๐ž ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐จ๐ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž, ๐ข๐ง๐ง๐จ๐ฏ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐œ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐š๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐จ๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐š ๐œ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ž-๐œ๐ก๐š๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ , ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง-๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐ , ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฎ๐ซ๐›๐š๐ง๐ข๐ณ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐‚๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ž+ ๐–๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐? Sophie Egan, author of ๐‘ซ๐’†๐’—๐’๐’–๐’“๐’†๐’… and ๐‘ฏ๐’๐’˜ ๐’•๐’ ๐‘ฉ๐’† ๐’‚ ๐‘ช๐’๐’๐’”๐’„๐’Š๐’๐’–๐’” ๐‘ฌ๐’‚๐’•๐’†๐’“, joins Climate+ Podcast to explore the complexities of American food culture, the historical evolution of food practices in the U.S.โ€ฆ
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Researchers recently used near-infrared photography to get a detailed look at ancient artwork showing scenes of wild animals tangled in a fight. But these werenโ€™t paintings on a cave wall. They were tattoos on the arms of a Siberian woman who lived 2,300 years ago. What can ancient ink tell us about our ancestors? Sticking and poking their way intoโ€ฆ
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Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UKโ€™s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments in environmental policy. This week, Eco Chamber host James Agyepong-Parsons speaks with senior reporter Shosha Adie about a proposed golf course in the Scottish Highlands which one watchdog says has haโ€ฆ
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You might think of a star as a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace where hydrogen is turned into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees. But researchers recently reported that theyโ€™d observed some of what lies beneath all that hydrogen and helium, at least inside one unusual supernova. The star, named supernova 2021yfj, hadโ€ฆ
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