December 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Series produced by Catalina Island Conservancy

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Fun, entertaining, science-based radio show exploring critical issues regarding our natural world.

Isla Earth, a production of the Catalina Island Conservancy, is a radio series exploring environmental issues of local, national, and global importance. Our mission is to increase ecological awareness, deepen understanding, and encourage environmentally sustainable choices.


21 Pieces

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Have you talked to your sprinkler today? Maybe you should. It might tell you it shouldn't be on and that you're wasting precious water.

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  • Added: Nov 19, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Fill 'er up with: Algae 100 - you know, the gas that's made from those golden brown or green plants growing along our coasts...

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  • Added: Nov 19, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Viruses don't win many popularity contests. But a virus is helping wildlife biologists protect one of nature's fiercest and most elegant animals.

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  • Added: Nov 19, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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New Orleans. Home to Dixieland Jazz, Mardi Gras, and some of the best fresh seafood you'll ever eat. Shrimp etouffee. Oysters on the half shell. Wh...

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  • Added: Nov 19, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Sea turtles have been around for more than a hundred million years, so you'd have to call them survivors. But sea turtles may have met their match...

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  • Added: Nov 19, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Who's next? The Iberian lynx? Arctic fox? European mink? According to the recent European Mammal Assessment Report, these critically endangered spe...

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  • Added: Nov 19, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
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Speedos -- those tight, very brief bikini swimsuits -- may not be ideal for every male physique. And they're a fashion disaster for dolphins.

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  • Added: Nov 15, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Looking for platinum to give someone special? Here's an unlikely place, check out your tail pipe.

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  • Added: Nov 15, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
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The Bald Eagle is back. Which is great news considering all it's been through.

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  • Added: Nov 15, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Watch out, reckless off-roaders. The Rangers are coming. Specifically, the Rangers for Responsible Recreation.

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  • Added: Nov 15, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
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In more and more places, non-native plants are upsetting the balance of nature by replacing native plant species.

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  • Added: Nov 15, 2007
  • Length: 01:28
  • Purchases: 1
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Desalination may not be the best solution for providing water.

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  • Added: Nov 13, 2007
  • Length: 01:31
  • Purchases: 1
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Like a giant toilet bowl that won't flush, an area twice the size of Texas swirls in the sea near Hawaii and draws in floating trash from a much la...

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  • Added: Nov 13, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Dallying under the Mistletoe during the holiday season is an ancient tradition among lovers young and old. But, the green sprig, tied with a red b...

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  • Added: Nov 13, 2007
  • Length: 01:18
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Remember the warning "don't eat yellow snow"? Maybe not if you grew up in Hawaii or Florida - but, it's bad. It turns out that dirty snow is bad, ...

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  • Added: Nov 13, 2007
  • Length: 01:23
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You'd think the world's biggest mammal would be hard to miss. But counting blue whales is turning into a whale of a challenge.

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  • Added: Nov 13, 2007
  • Length: 01:21
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According to the Audubon Society, more than 20 species of common American birds in the eastern United States have plummeted, some by more than half...

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  • Added: Nov 12, 2007
  • Length: 01:19
  • Purchases: 2
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Now you can whip up a meal while you work on your tan. And that's with free, non-polluting, energy from the sun.

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  • Added: Nov 12, 2007
  • Length: 01:18
  • Purchases: 2
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Deep in the heart of Indonesia's Papuan rain forest lives a rare pygmy kangaroo...

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  • Added: Nov 12, 2007
  • Length: 01:16
  • Purchases: 2
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According to a recent report , the earth's temperature could rise up to seven and a half degrees before the end of the century.

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  • Added: Nov 12, 2007
  • Length: 01:24
  • Purchases: 2