March 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Series produced by Catalina Island Conservancy
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.
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What's a significant threat to the survival of captive gorillas? Surprisingly it's heart disease.
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- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
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If you’re wondering how our penguin friends in the Antarctic are doing these days, here are the cold, hard facts. Their poo is getting mighty pollu...
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- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
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The fine folks of Omak, Washington, found themselves up a creek recently. Cleaning it up.
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- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
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Bird watching can be pretty intense. Some birdwatchers travel deep into the Amazon to spy the exquisite Quetzal, or battle surf off the coast of th...
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- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
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Jet propulsion doesn't always make you fast...Take, for example, the Antarctic scallop. These bivalve mollusks shouldn't even be able to move. Yet ...
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- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
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The words, "holistic," and "cattle range" aren't often heard together. But in California, “holistic range management” is indeed...all the rage on ...
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Why did the salamander cross the road? The same reason that would motivate most creatures: To have sex, of course.
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Bringing countries together to protect our natural environment looks good on paper. Real good, in fact.
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Is there a sex-therapist in the house? Apparently, China's pandas could use some help.
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
What does rain forest conservation have to do with preventing malaria? In the Amazon rainforest, the means to these two ends are virtually one in t...
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- Length: 01:30
Crispy noodles: They're tasty, and...fuel-efficient! That is, if someday we're driving hydrogen-fueled cars.
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Is Carl Safina up to something fishy? You see, Carl is a prominent marine ecologist and the prize-winning author of three books. He’s passionate a...
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
What do you get when you cross folk art with photonic technology? A very bright idea.
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Ever think to yourself, “California and Iceland sure have a lot in common”? Probably not. But if you dig beneath the surface, they both harbor lots...
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
San Francisco’s Project Open Hand is in a lot of hot water these days. About 170,000 gallons a year, to be exact. And it’s heated by clean, non-po...
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
The environmentally polite thing to do in the future might be to give your battery the flu. That's right: Batteries may soon run on a virus.
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
For many who are environmentally-minded, the mere mention of DDT sets them on edge. After all, it disrupted ecosystems around the globe crashing bi...
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
You’ve heard about following your bliss. Well, here’s a creature that’s simply following dinner.
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
One architecture professor is giving trailer parks a good name. Michael Berk of Mississippi State University has developed award-winning mobile hom...
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
The parrot fish with its colorful, multi-patterned designs and parrot-like beak is credited with being the sandmaker of the sea -- perfectly suited...
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 01:30
