April 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.
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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...
- Added: Mar 29, 2013
- 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: Mar 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
The parrot fish with its colorful, multi-patterned designs and parrot-like beak is credited with being the sandmaker of the sea -- perfectly suited...
- Added: Mar 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
“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...
- Added: Mar 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
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 b...
- Added: Mar 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
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.
- Added: Mar 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
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...
- Added: Mar 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
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.
- Added: Mar 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
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...
- Added: Mar 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
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.
- Added: Mar 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
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. Turn...
- Added: Mar 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
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...
- Added: Mar 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Giant pandas are about as cute as an animal can get -- and, just as endangered.
- Added: Mar 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
You’ve heard about following your bliss. Well, here’s a creature that’s simply following dinner.
- Added: Mar 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
To prepare for climate change, sometimes it’s good to get down to the bare bones. Fish bones, that is.
- Added: Mar 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Well, it seemed like a good idea. Replace paper grocery bags with plastic grocery bags. Save a tree! But, we know what happened.
- Added: Mar 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
It turns out that one of the world’s top Earth Friendly getaways is the Mauna Lani Resort on the Kohala Coast of Hawaii’s Big Island.
- Added: Mar 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Aquaculture is a great way to provide sustainably farmed seafood for the planet. They also produce an excessive amount of organic waste. You know, ...
- Added: Mar 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
It’s stocky and dark brown with a long bushy tail, and fur softer than a mink’s. Meet the Pacific Fisher.
- Added: Mar 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Smile, whale shark, you’re on candid camera -- the high seas version.
- Added: Mar 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
