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Humboldt Invasion
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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You've heard about following your bliss. Well, here's a creature that's simply following dinner.

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Tracking Pandas
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Giant pandas are about as cute as an animal can get -- and, just as endangered. Population estimates of pandas in the wild range from just 1,600 to...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Reversing Urban Sprawl
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Don't you love urban sprawl? Right. Thirty years ago, car-friendly developments, and the freeways to get us there, were smart planning. Today? They...

Bought by WXDU and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Pond Scum Energy
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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To anyone who's ever gone skinny-dipping in a pond, the green stuff floating on top is really disgusting. But to Professor Dave Bayless, blue-green...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
International Coastal Cleanup Day
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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It all began with one woman walking along the beach of South Padre Island in Texas. Appalled at the amount of trash she saw, Linda Maraniss felt co...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Making Connections
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The hand bone's connected to the wrist bone, the wrist bone's connected to the arm bone, and so on and so on. That was a great campfire song. Turns...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Elephant Photo ID
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Probably the last place you'd expect to see a photo I.D. would be in the wilds of India -- featuring a photo of a male Asian elephant no less. But ...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Nano Flakes
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The biggest power plant on earth is high in the sky -- it's the sun. But, we only get one percent of our energy from it because it typically costs ...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Spying Seals
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Watch out! The shadowy world of espionage has a new agent, the elephant seal. And, they're working as spies in an ocean near you.

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Plug-and-Play Solar Array
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Rooftop solar panels are finally becoming affordable, for the rest of us. Sure, a fancy array to power your whole house will still cost you 10 gran...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Habitat Change Difficult
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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You know the saying "you can't teach an old dog new tricks" Well, looks like it holds true for long-established species coping with deforestation.

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Dogs Help With Conservation Study
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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What's furry, barks, and sniffs out rare species like a Sherlock Holmes? Yep -- it's a dog! As it turns out, man's best friend knows a bear or a bo...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Foja Mountain Range Creatures
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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"Pygmy possum" and "giant rat." They sound like rock groups, but no! These are two mammals new to science found recently in a pristine jungle in th...

Bought by KMXT, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KSKQ


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Caribbean Reef Balancing Act
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The parrot fish with its colorful, multi-patterned designs and parrot-like beak is credited with being the sandmaker of the sea -- perfectly suited...

Bought by KMXT, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KSKQ


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Go Native In The Garden
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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So, you want to get out and freshen up your garden a tad. Great! But, before you begin planting willy nilly, take a moment and consider if what you...

Bought by KMXT, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KSKQ


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Reef Cleaner
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Holy algae, batfish, we need you to clean up that reef! When researchers wanted to know what fish on Australia's Great Barrier Reef was best at rem...

Bought by KMXT, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KSKQ


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Invasion Of Monster Toads
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Now playing in Australia: Invasion of the Monster Toads! Today's story began back in the 1930s when Australia's sugar-cane farmers had a problem. B...

Bought by KMXT, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KSKQ


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Cave Habitats
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Nature builds neighborhoods in the most interesting places. Caves, for example, are pretty spectacular neighborhoods.

Bought by KMXT, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KSKQ


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Bacteria Super Power
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Batman step aside! You're no match for these polluting villains. Polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, make the Riddler look like a saint. They're fo...

Bought by KMXT, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KSKQ


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Keeping Nemo
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The real fish represented in the animated film Finding Nemo are disappearing. A recent study found that one in every six species featured in the mo...

Bought by KMXT, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KSKQ


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Mackerel Moving On
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Fish don't care about politics. And that's terribly inconvenient for Scotland, Denmark and Iceland, where ocean mackerel, a large migratory cousin ...

Bought by KMXT, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KSKQ


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Helios House
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Watch out, Hollywood, there's a new starlet in town. It's the nation's first green gas station, called, Helios House. It's in Los Angeles -- for no...

Bought by KMXT, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KSKQ


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Enzymes Lead To Bio-diesel
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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"Unleaded, super unleaded, or tree fungus." It could be an option someday! Alternative fuel experts have discovered a microbial fungus from one Sou...

Bought by KMXT, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KSKQ


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Encyclopedia Of Life
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The Book of Life: That book in heaven with the list of names? Well, biologists on earth have started their own version.

Bought by KMXT, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KSKQ


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Zoo On Ice
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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A frozen zoo...for all animals? Well, no one's making the Panamanian golden frog shiver in its terrarium. Instead, this is a unique way that the Sa...

Bought by KMXT, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KSKQ


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3