Today, we’re unraveling how the ice trade vanished, and spoiler alert: the South was at the epicenter of it all! We’re kicking things off with John Gorrie. This guy was a doctor down in Florida who had this brilliant idea long before the Civil War started. And not just any idea, but one that eventually led to the first plant where ice was made – not harvested from frozen lakes – but actually made, and it all happened in New Orleans.
From a heart-stopping near-miss in foggy Seattle waters came Captain John Trimmer’s “How to Avoid Huge Ships” – a...
Join us on a behind-the-scenes tour of Spartanburg Water, where Director Ken Tuck shares the 20-year journey of transforming water...
Meet the unsung heroes of Georgia’s rivers – freshwater mussels! Join aquatic biologist Dr. Steve Golladay as he reveals how...
Once common in folktales, sightings of the eerie will o’ wisp lights have faded away. Could science finally explain why the wisps...
