Environment/Climate

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Facebook to Turn Over Ads to Congress

Airs at: Fri, 09/22/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Yesterday, Facebook announced that it would provide the U.S. Congress with more than 3,000 politically themed ads that were purchased with russian accounts during last year's presidential campaign. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that he cares deeply about the democratic ... Read more

Natural Defense

Airs at: Mon, 09/25/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
As an increasing number pathogens that infect humans, animals and plants are developing resistance to antibiotics and pesticides, while farmers spray more pesticides and doctors prescribe more antibiotics, the diseases and infections continue unabated. On this episode of L... Read more

Threshold Shift Long-Play Special: Space-Time

Airs at: Wed, 10/18/2017 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Threshold Shift
This is our second and final long-play special. Our first Long Play focused on the Dawn Chorus, tracking how soundscapes evolve over time and give a deeper sense of place based on what they contain. In this special, we'll be tracking time on a global scale, starting with ni... Read more

Threshold Shift Long-Play Special: The Dawn Chorus

Airs at: Wed, 10/04/2017 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Threshold Shift
Airs Wednesday, Oct 4 at 12 AM. This is the first of our two long-play specials. We devised these shows specifically to be a little more experimental in nature, which lets us push the limits of how long we can keep humans off the air. It also gives our lengthy submissions ... Read more

Hurricane Maria Might Exceed Harvey's Power

Airs at: Wed, 09/20/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Weather forecasters are running out of ways to describe Maria as it may exceed even Harvey in its damage and strength. Hurricane Maria had made landfall Wednesday morning with 155 mile per hour winds and intense rains, just after Irma had caused nearly one billion dollars i... Read more

Greg Palast on CROSSCHECK!

Airs at: Mon, 09/25/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
  Cecil and Celeste welcome KBOO's favorite muckraking investigative journalist...Greg Palast. Greg Palast is an investigative reporter, whose news-breaking stories appear on BBC Television, The Guardian and now in Rolling Stone Magazine. (It was Palast who uncovered how ... Read more

Meet KBOO's Artist in Residence!

KBOO is proud to introduce our Artist in Residence, Nikki Martin!  Nikki has been an environmental sound designer for over a decade and now brings her skills to the KBOO airwaves to bring us some audio treats. Finding a place where the sounds of nature remain uninterrupted ... Read more

A Protest for Sessions Visit in NW Portland, Tuesday

Airs at: Tue, 09/19/2017 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
A rally in Portland took place on Tuesday in protest of Attorney General Jeff Sessions' visit to the city. This rally drew nearly 200 people outside of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services building in Northwest Portland. Sessions was to speak to Federal Immigration O... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for September 18, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 09/18/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris hosts this Membership Drive edition of the Old Mole. The segments are: 1. Clayton Morgareidge reads from his book Demystifying Demons, about what's missing from typical self-help books.   2. Bill Renick talks with Jessica Tovar about how clean energy policies... Read more

Climate Chaos and Capitalism

Airs at: Mon, 09/18/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Two powerful storms – Harvey and Irma – have been in the news. In both cases, it's obvious how the priorities of capitalism made these natural disasters so much worse. But what can be done about it? Old Mole Tom Becker reads from a speech by Paul Fleckenstein given last wee... Read more