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Reproducing The White Rhino
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Veterinarians at the San Diego Zoo who breed white rhinoceroses are finding themselves, well, on the horns of a dilemma. Their female white rhinos ...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Environmentally Friendly Public Buildings
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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What is green and gold and read all over? Give up? It's Southern California's Santa Monica Public Library. Allow me to explain.

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Mystery Cat
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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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 ...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Buzzing Bees Move Elephants
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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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!

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Hydrogen Fuel Cells
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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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...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Insect Birth Control
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Skinny, boot leg, or flare? A new pair of jeans makes you feel so good. Like a million bucks, right? But cotton, the key ingredient in those jeans,...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Hydrogen And Egg Shells
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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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...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Green Mother’s Day
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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"Mother Nature"..."Mother's Day." A coincidence? I think not. Mother gave you life, nurtured and sustained you. The same can be said for Mother Nat...

Bought by 'The Sea', KCMJ Community Radio, and KSKQ


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Great Lakes Invaded By Goby
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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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...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Health And Pollution
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The latest air pollution discovery reads like a murder mystery. Thousands died from strokes and heart attacks within 24 hours after jumps in partic...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Recycling Wind Turbines
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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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...

Bought by KTXK and KKRN


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Decrease In Plant Species
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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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...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Endangered Iriomote
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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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 ...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Tofu Glue Is Sticking
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Easing fossil fuel dependence involves more than energy-efficient cars and light bulbs. It also involves tofu. That's because scientists at the U.S...

Bought by WXDU and KKRN


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
'Green' Concrete
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The road to a sustainable future could soon be paved with green concrete. Okay, not as enchanting as a road paved with gold. But since some 27,000 ...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Fox Food
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The good news, wildlife can adapt and thrive to urban living. The bad news, its fast food for foxes.

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Habihuts
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Nearly 828 million people live in what the United Nations calls "slums." In some cases, these are temporary "tent" cities that crop up after natura...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Project Open Hand
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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San Francisco's Project Open Hand is in a lot of hot water these days. About 170,000 gallons a year, to be exact. And it's heated by clean, non-pol...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Vacuums Best For Fleas
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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To get rid of fleas, there may be an alternative to poison, and that's a simple vacuum cleaner.

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Chaser: Listening To Nature
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Move over Einstein! There's a new genius on the block. And her name is Chaser, a border collie who lives in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Training For Green Jobs
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Green-collar workers aren't just wind farm technicians and solar panel installers anymore. Increasingly, the U.S. labor force needs managers with s...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Endangered Banana
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Did you know bananas might soon slip into history? That's because from Paris to Peoria, we all eat only one variety, and it's vulnerable to a fungu...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Fuel Cells Improve With Platinum
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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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 bef...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Costly Invasive Fire Ants
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is killing fire ants using a method that sounds like it was inspired by the movie Alien. It involves using insec...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Galapagos Conservation Helps Native Species
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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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 ...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1