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Carbon Credits Explained
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Trading carbon credits, or "cap and trade," is a promising free-market solution.

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  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Climate Change Implicated in Amphibian Decline
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Harlequin frogs can't seem to beat the heat. The vibrantly colored amphibians have been dying in droves.

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  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Feed the Tigers
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Tigers are victims of vanishing wilderness.

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  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Saving the Salton Sea
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Have you ever wondered where migratory birds get all the energy for such long, grueling flights? Well, there are pit stops along the way, like the ...

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  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Chuck the Seal Learns to Speak
From: BSR Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A young harbor seal named Chuck at the Boston Aquarium performs his fledgling talent

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  • Added: Jan 09, 2007
  • Length: 13:20
  • Purchases: 1
Television Technology
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
Looking at the latest high tech TV trends.

  • Added: Dec 19, 2006
  • Length: 08:47
Nature Selects for Diversity in Rainforests
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Scientists studied seven plots of rainforest in Borneo, Malaysia, India, Puerto Rico, Panama, and Thailand. They took a complete census of all the ...

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  • Added: Dec 17, 2006
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Putting Invasive Species to Work
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
First, pollution and over-harvesting caused the population of Puget Sound oysters to plummet. And then, a new sea creature came to town! The "arche...

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  • Added: Dec 17, 2006
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Car Sharing Gets a Green Light
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Car sharing is catching on in cities across the country. Today, about 92,000 people belong to car-sharing services like Zipcar and Flexcar.

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  • Added: Dec 17, 2006
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
A Zebra Mussel's Trojan Horse
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
It's an invasive little mollusk that's costing the U.S. billions. Its name? The Zebra mussel.

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  • Added: Dec 17, 2006
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Sea Star Blooms Endanger Coral
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A predator is threatening the coral. It's a huge sea star known as the Crown-of-Thorns, which usually lives in a natural balance with the coral. My...

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  • Added: Dec 17, 2006
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Climate Change Threatens Siberian Permafrost
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The Siberian permafrost - a sub-Arctic peat bog about the size of France and Germany - is chock full of carbon that's trapped in its frozen soils. ...

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  • Added: Dec 17, 2006
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
"Bright" Worms Live Longer
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Why do we grow old and die? Most scientists cite genetics, environmental factors, and chance. Shane Rea, a scientist at the University of Colorado,...

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  • Added: Dec 17, 2006
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Tiny Flies Combat Invsive Fire Ants
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Fire ants may be small insects, but their sting packs a wallop. They arrived in the U.S. from South America in the early 1900s, and have spread to ...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2006
  • Length: 01:30
Jelly Critter Reducing Atmospheric CO2
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Small but mighty is one way to describe the organism called "salp." A report in the journal Deep Sea Research suggests that salp, along with the ti...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2006
  • Length: 01:30
Pollution Affects Polar Bears
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Miles of pure, white snow stretching for as far as the eye can see. That's how many people imagine the North Pole - a place you wouldn't think of a...

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  • Added: Dec 17, 2006
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Up the Creek!
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Have you ever wanted to help "green up" your town, but the project seemed too daunting? This inspiring story is about how a handful of folks in Tac...

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  • Added: Dec 17, 2006
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
It's Not Easy, Being "Chemically Green"
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Toilet bowl cleaner, cough medicine, and rubber duckies have something in common: they're all made with chemicals. In fact, most of today?s product...

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  • Added: Dec 17, 2006
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Wyoming Rainmakers
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Here's a "rain dance" worth following. It's called cloud seeding, and it's been around for decades. Millions of dollars are spent each year on clou...

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  • Added: Dec 17, 2006
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Speculations: Real Estate meets String Theory
From: Nathanael Johnson
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The conceptual art of Jonathan Keats

  • Added: Dec 12, 2006
  • Length: 05:38
Are Animals Creative?
From: Sean Cole
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A short investigation of the age-old question, "are animals creative?"

Bought by Room Tone Selects, KCPW Salt Lake City, 'The Sea', New Hampshire Public Radio, The Story and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2006
  • Length: 06:31
  • Purchases: 14
Benetech's Humanitarian Technology
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
Non-profit tech start-up looks out for the rest of us

  • Added: Dec 08, 2006
  • Length: 08:39
Technology Gift Guide 2006
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
Annual technology gift guide for 2006

  • Added: Dec 07, 2006
  • Length: 05:40
Quasi The Robot
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
New Robots designed for teaching and learning

  • Added: Dec 07, 2006
  • Length: 07:06
Email Habits
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
A look at our emailing habits

  • Added: Dec 07, 2006
  • Length: 05:06

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