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Ecosystem Health Built on Three Unlikely Species
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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In Africa, two species depend on each other for survival. But scientists are now discovering that a third species is crucial to that equation.

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  • Added: Mar 29, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Mystery Cat
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2011 - 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 ...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Ice Melts Create New Shipping Passage
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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There’s now a shortcut between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, courtesy of climate change...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Hydrogen and Egg Shells
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2011 - 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...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Books vs. E-Readers
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Paper book or e-reader? Which is greener? Digital readers may save trees. But are they better environmentally overall than good ol’ book books?

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  • Added: Feb 23, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Microbial Fuel Cells
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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How now, brown cow? With digestive fluid you say? Along with some hay? That’s how researchers are generating electricity at the University of Ohio ...

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Nature Provides Clues for Survival
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Believe it or not, sometimes, it’s a good idea to be “as cold as ice.” Take, for example, the arctic ground squirrel. He's a creature that knows a ...

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  • Added: Dec 21, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Creative Solutions for Climate Change
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Are you worried about global warming? Well, here’s an idea. How about rocketing one trillion miniature umbrellas into orbit somewhere between us ...

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  • Added: Dec 21, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Fuel Cells improve with Platinum
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2011 - 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 be...

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  • Added: Dec 21, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Costly Invasive Fire Ants
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2011 - 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.

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  • Added: Dec 21, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Water Pollution Cleanup
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Garbage and noise. Sounds like the latest rock group. But no, turns out the two are much more useful. In fact, garbage and noise are actually being...

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  • Added: Dec 21, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Products for Responsible Consumers
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Is it ‘hip,’ or ‘cool,’ to be environmentally sustainable? That's a question that some of the biggest companies are asking about the world's most p...

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  • Added: Nov 17, 2010
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 3
Roof Gardens
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Why be boring and plant your garden in the ground when there’s a whole world of gardening possibilities up on the roof?

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  • Added: Nov 17, 2010
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 3
New Technology for Cheetah Conservation
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Cheetahs are fast, but time is catching up with them. Their numbers are dwindling due to a small gene pool that makes these graceful Big Cats vulne...

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  • Added: Oct 25, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Bale House
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Why build a house when you can grow one? So says sustainable building designers at Britain's University of Bath. They recently created a home from ...

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  • Added: Oct 25, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Fire and Climate Change
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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We live on a flammable planet! Consider our forests: Vegetation that dries out seasonally. And our atmosphere? Oxygen! Add lightening strikes, volc...

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  • Added: Oct 25, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Creating A Better Commute
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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These days, Americans are driving three times as many miles per capita as they did in 1980. Not only are longer commutes driving us crazy, they’re...

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  • Added: Oct 25, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Prairie Tallgrass Biofuel
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Prairie tallgrass may soon make an electrifying comeback. Long considered one of the earth's most endangered ecosystems, today, prairie grass -- es...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
Alex: The Talking Grey Parrot
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Alex was hatched without fanfare in 1976. But when he died in 2007, he was one of the most famous talking grey parrots on the planet. The reason? ...

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  • Added: Sep 27, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Wetlands Helped by Hurricanes
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Are hurricanes good for anything? Maybe. Katrina and Rita devastated hundreds of square miles in the Louisiana and Mississippi lowlands. But it tur...

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  • Added: Sep 27, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Biophilia: For Your Sanity
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Gnarls Barkley’s award winning song “Crazy” starts off with the lyrics, “I remember when I lost my mind.” Perhaps you can relate. But noted entomol...

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  • Added: Sep 24, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
XptA1: Nature’s Pesticide
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Mother Nature doesn't fly a crop-duster -- she doesn't need to. A research team at the University of Warwick, England, recently discovered a natura...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
Fire Ant Counter Attack
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2010 - 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.

  • Added: Aug 25, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
Batteries Powered by Sugar
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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i-Pods powered by Kool-Aid? Yep. They might be just around the corner -- no kidding!

  • Added: Aug 25, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
Nice Lice
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2010 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Lice aren’t nice, unless you’re wild mice. Parasitologist Jan Bradley studies immune responses to parasites in wild mice from woods near Britain’s ...

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  • Added: Jul 27, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1