Hour 2 Naturalist BERNIE KRAUSE has spent forty years listening to and recording the natural world. He’s traveled the world, capturing the sounds of over fifteen thousand species and making four thousand hours of wild music – insect larvae, snapping shrimp, Algonquin wolves, coral reefs, baby vultures and crying beavers. And many of the animals [...]

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Hour 1 We present a recorded and lightly edited broadcast of Marty’s Tuesday interview with Pennsylvania Gov. TOM CORBETT at The Prince Music Theater. Marty asked the governor about cuts he's made to education and public welfare programs, the impact fee for Marcellus Shale natural gas extraction, taxes, gay marriage and gay adoption, among other [...]

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Hour 1 The EPA has set the first air pollution rules for natural gas drilling, requiring gas drillers to capture toxic gases, like benzene, that are released during the drilling process. The new rules go into effect in 2015.  The Obama administration has also proposed rules that would force companies to disclose the chemicals used [...]

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Hour 1 In hundreds of U.S. neighborhoods, including several in Philadelphia and the surrounding area, the soil that children play in is contaminated by lead and other toxic metal particles once spewed into the air by factories that smelted lead. A 14-month investigation by USA TODAY’s investigative reporters, including our guest ALISON YOUNG, titled “Ghost [...]

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Hour 1 Americans make a lot of trash, more than any other country in the world. In fact, each of us produces around 7.1 pounds of garbage a day, or roughly 102 tons in a lifetime. And trash turns out to be America’s top export; we ship a lot of it to China every year. [...]

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Hour 2 With summer approaching and gas prices averaging around $4 a gallon, a lot of families are rethinking the long vacation road trip or one that involves expensive airfare. So how about taking a few smaller trips with the kids closer to home?  Today we’re highlighting some great getaways for families in our region, [...]

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Philadelphia’s Academy of Natural Sciences is celebrating its 200th birthday this year.  The renowned Academy is the oldest natural history museum in the Western Hemisphere. Its renowned collection of 18 million plants and animals includes dinosaur fossils collected by Thomas Jefferson, bird specimens and drawings from John James Audubon, herbs brought back by a Lewis [...]

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Hour 1 [REBROADCAST] Just over a hundred years ago, Roald Amundsen and four companions were the first human beings to stand at the South Pole. Using skis and dog sleds they beat Robert Falcon Scott’s British expedition by just a few weeks. Scott and his men reached the South Pole only to find Amundsen’s Norwegian [...]

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Hour 2 Author and Pulitzer Prize finalist SCOTT WEIDENSAUL discusses his new book, "The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery and Endurance in Early America." Weidensaul has written more than two dozen books, including the critically acclaimed "Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds." In addition to writing about wildlife, [...]

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Hour 1 Last week, the Philadelphia City Planning Commission approved the Civic Vision for the Central Delaware, an ambitious guide for the next several decades of development along Philadelphia’s eastern waterfront. In a planning process that dates back to at least 2006 and has involved thousands of Philadelphia residents at dozens of public meetings, waterfront [...]

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