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The women farmers of the Circuito Agroecológico Aiboniteño work together to build a swale on a guava orchard. (Paige Pfleger/for WHYY)
The Pulse
Environment

After Maria, farmers build resilience through sustainability

In Puerto Rico, a group of farmers help each other rebuild and prepare for the coming hurricane season.

7 years ago

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Rosa Elena Mastache Dominguez looks out at the beach through a door that once led to the back of her family home. Hurricane Maria shrunk the beach behind her home, then another storm brought waves that destroyed the structure. (Irina Zhorov/WHYY)
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Environment

Eroding beaches weaken Puerto Rico’s storm defenses

More than half of the island's beaches are losing sand. That's a problem when most of the population lives along the coast.

7 years ago

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In the days after the hurricane, Mariana Ortiz-Blanes documented the devastation around her family home. She took photos and short videos — then sent them to her daughter in Philadelphia — as Hurricane Maria swept across Puerto Rico. Photo Credit: Mariana Ortiz-Blanes
The Pulse
Environment

Surviving Maria — from 1,500 miles away

As hurricane winds swept across Puerto Rico, journalist Syra Ortiz-Blanes watched from Philadelphia, unsure if her family back home was safe.

7 years ago

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Workers from the power company, PREPA, work on a downed line in Utuado. Branches from a tree fell on the line, breaking it and causing a transformer to explode. (Irina Zhorov/WHYY)
The Pulse
Energy
Environment

Enemy No. 1 for Puerto Rico’s utility: trees

One of the most complicated pieces of technology — the power grid — is no match for the forest.

7 years ago

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This Feb. 19, 2013, file photo, shows OxyContin pills arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. (Toby Talbot/AP Photo)
Addiction
Medicine

Major opioid maker to pay for overdose-antidote development

OxyContin maker announced that it's making a $3.4 million grant to help develop a low-cost naloxone nasal spray.

7 years ago

The Milky Way's Galactic Center in the night sky above the Paranal Observatory (the laser creates a guide-star for the telescope). ESO/Y. Beletsky
Skytalk
Space

Galactic Two-Step

Our Milky Way is thought to have originally formed shortly after the birth of the universe, 13.5 billion years ago. Built from the first ...

Air Date: September 3, 2018

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These PET scans show the normal distribution of opioid receptors in the human brain. A new study suggests ketamine may activate these receptors, raising concern it could be addictive. (Philippe Psaila/Science Source)
NPR
Innovation
Mental Health

Ketamine, a promising depression treatment, seems to act like an opioid

A new study suggests that ketamine has something in common with drugs like fentanyl and oxycodone.

7 years ago

Radio Times
Biology
Medicine

Aroused: how hormones control us

Guest: Randi Hutter Epstein We blame a lot on our hormones – weight gain, sex drive, sleep loss, mood swings, i ...

Air Date: September 3, 2018 10:00 am

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Entomologist Anne Nielsen looks for stink bugs on Rutgers University experimental peach orchard in Bridgeton, N.J. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Environment
New Jersey
Outdoors

Asian wasp’s arrival in S. Jersey brings hope to scientists, farmers fighting stink bugs

It looks harmless, but the samurai wasp is a skillful warrior.

7 years ago

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Skytalk
Space

Listen to “Lune”

NASA Science Visualization Labs’ Ernie Wright has created a beautiful visual compliment to De Bussey’s classic piano composition, ...

Air Date: August 27, 2018

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Arcinella cornuta was included in a new study of fossil and extant bivalves and gastropods in the Atlantic Ocean. Researchers found that laziness might be a fruitful strategy for species survival. (Neogene Atlas of Ancient Life / University of Kansas)
NPR
Biology

Survival of the sluggish: Scientists find an upside to a low metabolism

7 years ago

Crews on Friday worked at clearing damage from Hurricane Lane near Hilo, Hawaii. The hurricane dumped torrential rains which inundated the Big Island's main city. (Crews on Friday worked at clearing damage from Hurricane Lane near Hilo, Hawaii. The hurricane dumped torrential rains which inundated the Big Island's main city. (Crews on Friday worked at clearing damage from Hurricane Lane near Hilo, Hawaii. The hurricane dumped torrential rains which inundated the Big Island's main city. (Crews on Friday worked at clearing damage from Hurricane Lane near Hilo, Hawaii. The hurricane dumped torrential rains which inundated the Big Island's main city. (Jessica Henricks)
NPR

Hawaii braces for ‘life threatening’ flash flooding, after lane weakens

Hurricane Lane, now downgraded to a tropical storm, is expected to continue to dump heavy rain in Hawaii on Saturday

7 years ago

Apollo 15 commander Dave Scott takes samples at the boulder on the rim of Hadley Rille during the Apollo 15 mission in this July 1971 NASA handout photo. Astronaut James B. Irwin, lunar module pilot, can be seen in the reflection in Scott's visor The photograph is one of more than 12,000 from NASA's archives recently aggregated on the Project Apollo Archive Flickr account.  REUTERS/NASA/Handout via Reuters    THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - TM3EBA90Z4801
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Missing tape discovery solves 40-year lunar mystery

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Environment
International

Drought in Central Europe reveals cautionary ‘hunger stones’ in Czech river

A lengthy drought in Europe has exposed carved boulders, known as "hunger stones," that have been used for centuries to commemorate historic droughts.

7 years ago

The Pulse
K-12
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How Schools Shape Health

School is a place where kids learn about health — everything from nutrition to avoiding STDs. But increasingly, schools across the coun ...

Air Date: August 24, 2018

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