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The Worm Turns for the North Carolina Legislature
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Earthworms rate pretty low on the "cuddly" scale for most people, but they do something exceedingly well: they eat all kinds of trash and turn it i...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
The Great Turtle Race
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
And it's Billie first off the beach. Billie, in the lead. And the winner -- Billie!

  • Added: Mar 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
The Clot Thickens
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
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 WYOU


  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Safe Sex for Salamanders
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Why did the salamander cross the road? The same reason that would motivate most creatures: To have sex, of course.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
Glassy Beaches Shore Up Erosion
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The folks in Broward County, Florida, have long considered themselves on the cutting edge of conservation. Now they're at it again.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
Green House Gasses Make Rain
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Recently, a group of scientists comparing rainfall over the last century with global production of greenhouse gases and aerosols reached a startlin...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
Giant Squid Invade Pacific Coast
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The kraken is a fictitious Scandinavian sea monster...But this fiction is borrowed from fact. There really is a giant squid called the Humboldt.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
Invaders from Another Ecosystem
From: Making Contact
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We visit wetlands around the San Francisco Bay, where scientists are waging a scorched-marsh campaign against a devastating kind of East Coast grass.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
Of Pirates and Scientists
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Tales of pirates and plunder have inspired more than a few Hollywood epics. Did you catch the summer block buster with Johnny Depp? But pirates le...

Bought by KUAC


  • Added: Dec 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Up a Tree With CO2
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
If you're looking for nature to somehow save us from global warming, don't bank on trees.

Bought by KUAC


  • Added: Dec 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:28
  • Purchases: 1
The Virgin Congo
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In 2007, an expedition sponsored by the Wildlife Conservation Society explored a remote area in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Team members were...

Bought by KUAC


  • Added: Dec 19, 2007
  • Length: 01:28
  • Purchases: 1
Fuel Cells for Ships
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Your ship has come in, environmentalists. And it's powered by cleaner-burning, highly efficient, fuel cells.

Bought by KUAC


  • Added: Dec 19, 2007
  • Length: 01:23
  • Purchases: 1
Welcome to Conservation Island
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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On Survivor Island, everyone is out for themselves. On Conservation Island, everyone is out for the planet.

Bought by KUAC


  • Added: Dec 14, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Virus Used to Track Cougar Movements
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Viruses don't win many popularity contests. But a virus is helping wildlife biologists protect one of nature's fiercest and most elegant animals.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 19, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Ecuador's Melting Ice Caps
From: Pauline Bartolone
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The Story of an Andean Community's Response to a Disappeared Glacier

Bought by KVMR, The Nature Podcast, and WBEZ


  • Added: Nov 07, 2007
  • Length: 16:32
  • Purchases: 3
The Biological Car
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Henry Ford had the right idea. Back in the early 1940, he developed the world's first "bio-car."

Bought by WEPS


  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Mushrooms for Insulation
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
There's a fungus among us that could become a more environmentally-friendly way to weatherize your home, or business.

Bought by KISU


  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Houses Made from Shipping Containers
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Here's a home that's truly "outside the box?" - or inside, depending on where you stand.

  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
Belching Tar Pits
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Considering all the animals trapped in the Los Angeles La Brea Tar Pits, you'd think the gas it's belching up is caused by something that it ate. A...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 01:31
Alchemy: A Fuelish Pursuit
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
U.S. Department of Energy scientists would hate to be called alchemists. But they're trying something that would be almost as miraculous as turning...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 01:14
  • Purchases: 1
Today's Carbon Report
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Catch the news and weather at 10 tonight along with the day's carbon report. Carbon report?

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 01:17
  • Purchases: 1
Getting to the Roots of the Matter
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Mangrove trees are simply amazing, in a sci-fi kind of way. They live in perhaps the most hostile plant environment imaginable.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 01:21
  • Purchases: 1
Batteries That Run on Sugar
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
i-Pods powered by Kool-Aid? They might be just around the corner.

Bought by KMXT and WEPS


  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 2
Retired Tires On the Road Again
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Old tires. Mountains of rubber. What's happening with them these days?

Bought by KUAC


  • Added: Sep 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Fields of Clean Energy
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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When it comes to discovering sources of renewable energy, Penn State engineering professor Bruce Logan is outstanding in his field. A corn field, ...

Bought by KUAC


  • Added: Sep 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1