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Arts, Culture & Media
Geo answer postcard
PRI's The World
June 24, 2009
For today's Geo Quiz, we asked what direction you're traveling in if you're crossing the Panama by train from the Pacific to the Atlantic. The answer is northwest. Reporter Murray Carpenter recently took the train ride and sent us an audio postcard.
Buckets of Trout
Living on Earth
October 24, 2008
Brook trout are in trouble throughout much of their native range in the eastern United States ?but they're alive and well in the waters of Maine.
Rock Snot
Living on Earth
August 07, 2009
A brown, fuzzy alga called didymo is invading cold trout and salmon streams. Didymo, better know as rock snot, and perplexed scientists are trying to figure out how and why it's rapidly spreading in North America.
Sports
European cycling race
PRI's The World
May 03, 2011
In the Geo Quiz, we're searching for the Doyenne. La Doyenne means "the oldest". It's also the French nickname for one of Europe's most famous bike races. The race starts and ends in a Belgian city we want you to to name.
Environment
The key to some big endangered species crime investigations is a small lab in Oregon
PRI's The World
August 06, 2014
Trying to figure out where that confiscated rhino horn came from? Is that guitar made from a piece of endangered tropical hardwood? You might find the answers to your questions at the US Fish & Wildlife Service's Forensic Lab in Ashland, Oregon, the only one like it in the world.