August 2007 - 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.
23 Pieces
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Sometimes good old Mother Nature seems a bit mixed up. Take the Okapi, for example...
- Added: Jul 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
From Dehli to Dallas, and places in between, just about everybody loves shrimp - but at what cost?
- Added: Jul 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
Save the Whales! For years, that was the clarion call of environmentalists everywhere. So how are the great cetaceans doing?
- Added: Jul 26, 2007
- Length: 01:24
While telecommunications can keep us informed, the towers needed can pose a problem to birds.
- Added: Jul 26, 2007
- Length: 01:23
Just about everybody's seen Jaws, the hit movie about a monster shark that snacks on captains and coeds. But have you ever wondered how many sharks...
- Added: Jul 26, 2007
- Length: 01:06
Is Carl Safina up to something fishy? A prominent marine ecologist who is passionate about the sea, and making sure that we don't overfish it, has...
- Added: Jul 26, 2007
- Length: 01:24
Jet propulsion doesn't always make you fast... Take, for example, the Antarctic scallop. These bivalve mollusks shouldn't even be able to move.
- Added: Jul 26, 2007
- Length: 01:29
You know, I'd like to meet the person who cut down the last palm tree on Easter Island. What were they thinking?
- Added: Jul 26, 2007
- Length: 01:29
Are you worried about global warming? Well, here's an idea. How about rocketing one trillion miniature umbrellas into orbit somewhere between us ...
- Added: Jul 26, 2007
- Length: 01:23
A rhinestone dog collar: $35. A doggy doo composter: Priceless... At least that's what Sharon Slack of Canada's Office of Urban Agriculture thinks...
- Added: Jul 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
Cod - the delicious white fish that provides the counterpart to the chips -- is so popular that wild stocks have been severely depleted.
- Added: Jul 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
The crashing surf, gleaming sunshine and warm beaches make coastlines look like...well, a relaxing place. But for the creatures that live there, it...
- Added: Jul 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
Here's one of the "good guys" of conservation - The Surfrider Foundation ...
- Added: Jul 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
We burn a lot of fossil fuels, and many of us would like to curb our dependence on foreign oil. Ocean tides and crashing waves could be at least a ...
- Added: Jul 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
Is there a sex-therapist in the house? Apparently, China's pandas could use some help.
- Added: Jul 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
The Appalachian Trail has been called "America's footpath." Today, scientists are taking a closer look at the Appalachian Trail, seeing it as a bar...
- Added: Jul 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
The toll that war takes on human life and property is widely known. But we don't hear much about the devastating effects war has on wildlife and wi...
- Added: Jul 27, 2007
- Length: 01:32
Here's some good news for Japan's landfills. Piles of scrapped cars are becoming a thing of the past.
- Added: Jul 27, 2007
- Length: 01:32
Ocean dead zones. Air and water pollution worldwide. All this bad news is enough to cause "Eco-phobia."
- Added: Jul 27, 2007
- Length: 01:32
An ecosystem is like a finely woven garment -- pull out one thread, and the entire thing might come apart. An unraveling, of sorts, happened off th...
- Added: Jul 27, 2007
- Length: 01:32