Hearing Voices - Radio Stories / Environment

Northern Lights: Natural Radio 8:07 Barrett Golding

When solar flares hit the Earth's magnetic field, the skies at both poles can light up with auroras. The particles also create very low frequency electromagnetic waves, a type of natural radio that can be picked up around the globe. Every year sound recordist Steve McGreevy heads north where the reception is best and points his receiver at the sky. (repeat)

Broadcast: May 3 2006 on PRX Nature Stories Podcast; Mar 26 1999 on NPR All Things ConsideredSeries: Lost & Found Sound Subjects: Technology, Environment, Science

1906 photo of street and trolley tracks ripped by quake

City Will Rise 2 8:51 Jesse Boggs

April 18 marks the centennial of one of America's greatest catastrophes, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. In the second of a two-part report on the legacy of the quake and its fiery aftermath, we look at the almost-immediate campaign to put a positive spin on the disaster. [transcript]

Broadcast: Apr 18 2006 on NPR Day to DaySeries: San Francisco 1906 Earthquake Subjects: Public Affairs, Environment, Historical, Historical Anniversaries

City Will Rise 1 8:59 Jesse Boggs

April 18 marks the centennial of one of America's greatest catastrophes, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. In part one of our two-part re-examination of the events following the quake, we look at how bad luck and human error exacerbated the disaster. [transcript]

Broadcast: Apr 17 2006 on NPR Day to DaySeries: San Francisco 1906 Earthquake Subjects: Public Affairs, Environment, Historical, Historical Anniversaries

Nevada Water Rights 7:46 Scott Carrier

The Southern Nevada Water Authority launches a plan to build a pipeline connecting Las Vegas with underground wells located 200 miles away. The move would provide Las Vegas with millions of gallons of water, but local farmers and ranchers argue the pipeline would dry up their water source, hurting their livelihood and the environment. [transcript]

Broadcast: Feb 20 2006 on NPR Day to Day Subjects: Environment, Public Affairs, Justice

Falcons Followed 7:06 Jesse Boggs

Naturalist Alan Tennant and pilot George Vose track the migrations of Peregrine falcons all around the world. Their airplane flights may soon become a Robert Reford movie.

Broadcast: Apr 23 2005 on APM Weekend America Subjects: Entertainment, Environment, Travel

Skiing Alta 5:41 Scott Carrier

This has been a deadly winter for skiers, snowboarders and snowmobilers who have ventured out-of-bounds in Utah's snow-covered Wasatch Range. From Alta, a Mecca for "powder hounds," we get the views of skiers who are sticking to safer, sanctioned slopes. [transcript]

Broadcast: Jan 20 2005 on NPR Day to Day Subjects: Sports, Environment

Color tinted postcard of Huey P. Long Bridge

Fanatic Reactionary Pedestrian 10:40 Abner Serd

The paving of America as seen from the shoulders and sidewalks of our country�s roads. Musings-in-motion recorded during a 5000 trek from Arizona to Georgia to Maine. "It is becoming illegal to travel this country by foot." Music by Jeff Arntsen of Racket Ship.) [transcript]

Broadcast: Jan 15 2005 on NPR Living on Earth Subjects: Environment, Travel, Technology

Book cover: Future Dictionary of America

The Garden for Disappointed Politicians 3:27 Sarah Vowell

America is now focused on who will win the elections. But what about the losers? And why do some refuse to go away? This "Garden" provides a place for them to go. It�s an entry in a new book called The Future Dictionary of America, edited by Dave Eggers, in which American writers were asked to define words which will be coined in a future, better U.S.A.. [transcript]

Broadcast: Sep 30 2004 on NPR Day to Day Subjects: Politics, Environment, Garden

Lewis & Clark: USA by Canoe 2:52 Barrett Golding

On the Trail of Lewis&Clark:Another in the series on the bicentennial of Lewis and Clark�s journey, featuring audio postcards on the people met along the trail, like this Penobscot Indian sitting on a bench in Chamberlain, South Dakota, arranging his dozen or so maps.

Broadcast: Aug 21 2004 on APM Weekend AmericaSeries: Lewis & Clark Trail: 200 Years Later Subjects: Travel, Environment, Native

The Earth Sings 59:00 Jay Allison, Gregg McVicar, Jeff Rice, Dmae Roberts & [Hearing Voices]

Sounds for and from Mother Earth in this (((Hearing Voices))) Earth Day special. Hosted by Dmae Roberts of Stories1st.org, featuring: "Annapurna Circuit" in Nepal's Himalayan Mountains by Quiet American (Aaron & Bronwyn Ximm). " Traveling Middle Earth" and " Maori Singers, New Zealand" culture and country by Dmae Roberts of Stories1st.org. Portraits of Alaskan singers/dancers Pamyua and of Sioux soprano opera Bonnie Jo Hunt singing with Robbie Robertson and crickets, produced by Gregg McVicar of EarthSongs.net. Ant sounds from Dr. Hayword Spangler of Tuscon's Carl Hayden Bee Research Center, recorded by Jeff Rice. "Hide And Seek" with animal trainer Ken Decroo and Dar the Chimp, part of Jay Allison's Animals & Other Stories. And Cosmic Background Radiation, Lava Flow, River Drumming, Leafhoppers and Elephants from the Pulse of the Planet CD "Extraordinary Sounds From the Natural World" by Jim Metzner. More audio, info and links...

Broadcast: Apr 20 2004 on HV SpecialSeries: Hearing Voices- Specials Subjects: Travel, Environment, Specials