January 2013 - 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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Easing fossil fuel dependence involves more than energy-efficient cars and light bulbs. It also involves tofu.
- Added: Dec 27, 2012
- Length: 01:30
For over 200,000 years, the Iriomote Cat lived in isolation on a tiny island between Taiwan and Japan. More recently, however, Iriomote Island has...
- Added: Dec 27, 2012
- Length: 01:30
Remember Pete Seeger’s song, “Where have all the flowers gone?” He blamed their disappearance on young girls picking them. But with 8,000 flowers a...
- Added: Dec 27, 2012
- Length: 01:30
With wind turbines popping up all over the world, wind power is quickly becoming one of today’s most popular renewable energy sources. But in the m...
- Added: Dec 27, 2012
- Length: 01:30
The latest air pollution discovery reads like a murder mystery. Thousands died from strokes and heart attacks within 24 hours after jumps in partic...
- Added: Dec 27, 2012
- Length: 01:30
Engineers at Ohio State University are cracking up over a new way of separating gasses. And they've possibly created a new process to produce a cle...
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 01:30
Hydrogen fuel cells could make for a better car. Proponents say if we can get past the technology’s many hurdles, at a cost people can afford, they...
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 01:30
In April of 1990, biologist David Jude pulled a little bug-eyed fish from the Saint Claire River near Detroit. It was a Round Goby. Immediately, al...
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 01:30
By 1999 the Round Goby, a harmless-looking little bug-eyed fish from the Black Sea, was found in all five of the Great Lakes. And it was wreaking ...
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 01:30
If you ever need to shoo a herd of elephants out of your backyard, new research suggests that you may want to unleash: The bees! While their fear o...
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 01:30
Deep in a Borneo rainforest, a mysterious catlike creature pads across the jungle floor. It has dark red fur, a bushy tail, and could be the first ...
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 01:30
Interest in developing new sources of renewable energy is on the rise, and scientists at Florida Atlantic University are going with the flow.
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 01:30
What is green and gold and read all over? Give up? It’s Southern California’s Santa Monica Public Library.
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 01:30
Veterinarians at the San Diego Zoo who breed white rhinoceroses are finding themselves, well, on the horns of a dilemma. Their female white rhinos ...
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 01:30
Ever been told you have feet of clay? How about feet of a beetle? Well now you can take that one as a compliment.
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 01:30
In Africa, two species depend on each other for survival. But scientists are now discovering that a third species is crucial to that equation. The ...
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 01:30
Are climate extremes killing lions in Africa? A team of biologists believe it's likely a significant factor.
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 01:30
You might have heard of animals shifting their nesting dates in response to climate change. That's happening with turtles in the Midwest; in this c...
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 01:30
After a forest fire, it’s common for salvage logging companies to clear out damaged trees. But taking the wood too soon may interrupt a beetle doin...
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 01:30
His name is Paul Stamets, but you can call him the Mushroom Man. Stamets is a “mycologist,” or mushroom expert. He lives on Washington State's Olym...
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 01:30
