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Old Species Need Trees
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
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.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Lost World Found
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
"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...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Got Fleas?
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
To get rid of fleas, there may be an alternative to poison...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Africa's Lost Crops
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Sometimes you don't have to look far to find a solution. While 300 million people in Africa suffer from hunger and malnutrition, the most popular ...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Fly the Environmentally Friendly Skies
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Ever wonder what jet fuel is made of? So do scientists from four universities working on a $7.5 million project funded by the Air Force and an airc...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Harnessing Geothermal Energy
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Ever think to yourself, "California and Iceland sure have a lot in common"? Probably not. But if you dig beneath the surface, they both harbor lots...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
A Frog To Repel Mosquitoes
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Tropical rainforests are home to a spectacular variety of frogs. This rich diversity of species helps drive conservation efforts in the tropics. T...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and KOSU


  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Mosquito Bait From Stinky Socks
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The next time your significant other complains about your stinky socks, just tell them you're doing scientific research!

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Something Good From Mud Floods
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade -- or so the saying goes. But what if a river of mud were to swamp four towns, 20 factories and many acre...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Wild Bees Do It Better
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Domestic tranquility has its place, but we all need a little walk on the wild side from time to time. And, apparently, the same goes for bees...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Ocean Floors Produce Natural Gas
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The decomposition of tiny sea animals and plants that died hundreds of thousands of years ago created enormous natural gas deposits under the seafl...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
A Stand-Up Guy for the Environment
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Did you hear the one about the comedian who spent nearly a half-million dollars on solar panels for his garage?

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Aug 19, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Sunshine Van Powers Up
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Now here's a ride Little Miss Sunshine and her eccentric family would have appreciated...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Shredded Plastics Return to Life
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
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.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Digging Up Mud for Wetlands
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
What do you do when the land you love is 'slip sliding away'? Luckily for folks in Louisiana, legislators and scientists are looking at several cre...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Dunfield's Inferno
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
University of Calgary biology professor, Peter Dunfield, has been to hell and back looking for ways to keep methane gas out of the atmosphere.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Elephants Going Mad
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Are elephants going crazy? They've been destroying villages, crops, and attacking -- sometimes killing -- humans. It's happening at an increasing r...

Bought by XRAY.fm and KOSU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Curtailing Invading Fire Ants
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is killing fire ants using a method that sounds like it was inspired by the movie Alien.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Platinum Performance at Gasoline Prices
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
You think gas is expensive? What about the price of platinum? Believe it or not, that's one of the things the automotive industry is looking at be...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Windmills of the Sea
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
As oil prices rise and supplies decline, interest in wind energy is soaring. But finding sites for wind farms hasn't been a breeze.

  • Added: Jul 01, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
Discovered Species in Indonesia
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A shark that strolls along coral on its fins. A shrimp with enough muscle and speed to shatter the glass in an aquarium. These and 48 other never-b...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
Worm Power!
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Businessman Tom Herlihy has eight million employees -- eight million, hungry, little red worms, that is.

  • Added: Jul 01, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
Biodiesel Versus Ethanol
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Face it. We're energy junkies -- and our fix is getting more expensive.

  • Added: Jun 30, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
Tomorrow's Fuel Today?
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
While hydrogen is being touted as the environmentally friendly fuel of the future, a pair of Penn State engineers believe the future may be closer ...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
Bacterium Leads to Biomedical Breakthrough
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Maybe there's hope for troublemakers. Some creatures thrive in hot water...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2008
  • Length: 01:32