September 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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Humans aren't the only ones collecting frequent flier miles. Turns out bugs, seeds and pathogens are frequently hitching rides on airplanes as stow...
- Added: Aug 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
i-Pods powered by Kool-Aid? Yep. They might be just around the corner -- no kidding!
- Added: Aug 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Researchers from the College of Forestry at Oregon State University recently received a Presidential citation for developing an environmentally fri...
Bought by KLCC
- Added: Aug 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
The Marine Mammal Protection Act celebrated its 35th birthday recently. Thanks to that legislation, more marine mammals have also celebrated birthd...
- Added: Aug 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is killing fire ants using a method that sounds like it was inspired by the movie Alien.
- Added: Aug 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Time was, armies and rulers determined international boundaries. Today global warming does.
- Added: Aug 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Isolated from the rest of the world for most of their existence, the Galapagos Islands are home to more unique plant species than almost any other ...
- Added: Aug 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Midwestern settlers of yesterday would feel unsettled by what they’d see there today. They wouldn’t recognize the forests for the trees.
- Added: Aug 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
University of Calgary biology professor, Peter Dunfield, has been to hell and back looking for ways to keep methane gas out of the atmosphere.
- Added: Aug 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Okay, so you’re out in the clear waters of Hawaii and notice that algae are smothering the beautiful coral reefs just below the surface. What’s goi...
- Added: Aug 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
No pesticides in America's classrooms, thank you very much! So says the Environmental Protection Agency. It recently unveiled new guidelines for pe...
- Added: Aug 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
A German company has developed a way to get more mileage out of junked cars. Of course they have to shred them to pieces first.
- Added: Aug 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
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...
- Added: Aug 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain. But near Serpa [say err pa], in neighboring Portugal, the sun shines nearly all the time. This is why...
- Added: Aug 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Garbage and noise. Sounds like the latest rock group. But no, turns out the two are much more useful. In fact, garbage and noise are actually being...
- Added: Aug 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
You've heard of the State of the Union address; well now there's a State of the Birds address. And it is, indeed, for the birds.
- Added: Aug 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Call it the Manure Mandate. California’s utilities face a state-ordered goal: Provide one-fifth of electricity from renewable resources by 2010. No...
- Added: Aug 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Mother Nature doesn't fly a crop-duster -- she doesn't need to. A research team at the University of Warwick, England, recently discovered a natura...
- Added: Aug 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
Have you ever bathed in paint? Canary yellow or baby blue? Well of course you haven’t! But almost three million Americans could have last year, sin...
- Added: Aug 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
“Get out of my space--or else!” Most people don’t know it, but some plants go to extremes to defend their turf. Some even produce a kind of poison ...
- Added: Aug 25, 2010
- Length: 01:30
