{"podcast":{"title":"The Sound Around Us!","slug":"the-sound-around-us-5981081","podcast_index_feed_id":5981081,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/e-music/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/e-music","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/e-music/20230120_110115_65b785c75a777379695a8c6858d37fb1.jpg","author":"E-Music","episode_count":2032,"summary":"\"Sound Around Us\" is a podcast that explores the various sounds in our environment and the impact they have on our daily lives. From the chirping of birds in a park to the hum of traffic on a busy street, the podcast delves into \"The Sound Around Us\", where the pun was most definitely intended! The program includes distinctive sounds from all around the world with a focus on allowing listeners to feel new emotions just by listening. The podcast seeks to increase listeners' awareness of how important sound is in creating our environment and to inspire people to pay closer attention to the noises they are surrounded by. Overall, music plays a huge role in our lives! Everywhere we turn, from the contemporary world to mother nature herself, we see it. Watch this space for weekly updates!","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T06:19:31.096889+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-sound-around-us-5981081"},"episode":{"title":"The Invisible Rivers That Control the Planet | The Hidden Flows Shaping Earth's Climate","slug":"the-invisible-rivers-that-control-the-planet-the-hidden-flows-shaping-earth-s-climate","published_at":"2026-07-31T17:40:11+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-sound-around-us-5981081/the-invisible-rivers-that-control-the-planet-the-hidden-flows-shaping-earth-s-climate","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-sound-around-us-5981081","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/e-music/3036124","audio_url":"https://pdcn.co/e/content.rss.com/episodes/182253/3036124/e-music/2026_07_30_19_49_10_786dc11e-135e-43fa-be60-8c659ceac79a.mp3","summary":"There are rivers flowing across our planet that no one can see. They don't carve through mountains. They don't appear on maps. And yet they transport more water than every river on Earth combined. These invisible rivers move through the atmosphere and oceans, carrying heat, moisture, and energy across the globe. They influence storms, droughts, floods, agriculture, ecosystems, and even the climate where you live. In this episode, we explore the invisible rivers that help control our planet. We dive into atmospheric rivers, ocean currents, the global water cycle, climate systems, meteorology, hydrology, and Earth science to understand how these massive natural flows shape life on Earth. We examine atmospheric rivers—long, narrow corridors of water vapor that transport enormous amounts of moisture through the atmosphere. When they reach mountains or coastlines, they can produce intense rainfall, replenish reservoirs, or trigger floods depending on local conditions. We also explore the great ocean currents that move warm and cold water across the globe. These underwater highways redistribute heat from the equator toward the poles, helping regulate temperatures, weather patterns, and marine ecosystems. But these systems don't operate independently. The atmosphere and oceans constantly exchange energy and water, creating an interconnected network that influences weather on every continent. Small changes in one part of the system can eventually affect regions thousands of miles away. Scientists use satellites, weather models, ocean sensors, drifting buoys, aircraft, and powerful computers to monitor these invisible flows and better understand how they evolve over time. The remarkable part is that most of this activity happens completely out of sight. We notice the rain. We n…","meta_description":"There are rivers flowing across our planet that no one can see. They don't carve through mountains. They don't appear on maps. And yet they transport more…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2927,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-sound-around-us-5981081/episodes/the-invisible-rivers-that-control-the-planet-the-hidden-flows-shaping-earth-s-climate/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-sound-around-us-5981081/the-invisible-rivers-that-control-the-planet-the-hidden-flows-shaping-earth-s-climate.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}