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Eavesdropping on Elephants
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Even if you don’t want to talk about the proverbial “elephant in the room,” you could at least count the number roaming around wild. Or so you’d t...

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Rubber Hits the Road
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Old tires. Mountains of rubber. What’s happening with to them these days? Well, in Pennsylvania, they’re hitting the road!

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Powered By The Sun
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Now here’s a ride Little Miss Sunshine and her eccentric family would have appreciated. Think sixties hippie culture meets Star Trek, and you end u...

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Mysterious Vulture Deaths
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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It seemed like the right thing to do at the time. In India, tens of thousands of cows die each year. In the late 1980s, India’s largely Hindu popul...

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Bats Deliver Seeds
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The world’s rainforests are disappearing at an alarming rate. But conservationists have a new trick that may help restore them. All it takes is so...

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Ocean Sinks
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Our oceans have had their fill of carbon dioxide! So says a significant new study from Columbia University. It reports that oceans no longer absor...

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Delta Decline
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The forested wetlands of Louisiana have inspired Hollywood movie scenes ever since the ‘talkies.’ But the Cypress swamps and floating marshes of Ba...

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Ice Cream Factory Goes Green
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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There’s nothing like ice cream on a sweltering summer day. And it doesn’t much matter whether it’s in a cone, a shake, a sundae, or a banana split....

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Panda Conservation
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Is there a sex-therapist in the house? Apparently, China's pandas could use some help. It seems that some of the males have lost their moves, their...

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Beetle Juice
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The African Stenocara beetle has learned a thing or two about water conservation. Living in the Namib desert, it uses its wings to capture water va...

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Smarter Electric Cars
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Tomorrow’s electric cars could get smarter, thanks to artificial intelligence and…well, military tanks.

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
That Sinking Feeling
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Here’s a curious problem. What should you do with old ships, trucks, subway cars, and even military tanks? For one company, California Ships to Ree...

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Salmon Chips
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Save the Salmon -- it’s easier said than done. Efforts to restock Maine’s many rivers with Atlantic salmon have been going on for 130 years. But t...

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Adobe Software’s LEED Building
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Have you ever opened a pdf file? Or used slick software like PhotoShop to manipulate images? Just a click or two with the trusty mouse, and it’s by...

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  • Added: Jul 31, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Air Pollution Travels
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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When it comes to air pollution, every little particulate has a green card. It can just board the next wind current and take a ride to greener pastu...

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  • Added: Jul 31, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Chemistry That’s Green
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Contrary to what you might think, “green chemistry” is not used to make that “gooey, drippy, oozy, cold and clammy stuff” called “Green Slime” that...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
Carbon Solution Found in Sea
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Most of us have heard that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, and a major contributor to global warming. We all should ditch incandescent light bu...

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  • Added: Jul 30, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Designer Pesticides
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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What’s “bugging” farmers these days? Greenbugs and grain aphids. They're tiny insects found nearly on every continent. And they destroy about a hu...

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  • Added: Jul 29, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Wind Power Offshore
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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You’ve probably seen those daring para-surfers who use wind power to skip across the waves. Well, the gusts and gales that these terrestrial mammal...

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  • Added: Jul 29, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Naval Sonar Impacting Whale Navigation?.
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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A beached whale is a heartbreaking sight. And while nobody’s sure exactly why “beachings” occur, scientists have offered several theories.

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  • Added: Jul 29, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Coolin' It
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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In the summer, an air conditioner can be a necessity. However, cooling down a house can be expensive, but there are ways to reduce the cost.

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  • Added: Jul 29, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Green Reaper
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Have you ever thought of using your loved ones as compost? Uh, I’d better explain…

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  • Added: Jun 27, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Turtles
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Marine scientists recently launched a pilot study to track the elusive loggerhead turtle. Even though loggerheads are the most common sea turtle in...

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  • Added: Jun 27, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Tuna Tagging
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Hello, Bluefin Tuna. Tag, you’re it! No, you’re really it -- you are among the last of a species that once thrived throughout the Atlantic.

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  • Added: Jun 27, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Green Roofs
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: July 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Remember Carole King’s song, “Up on the Roof”? Well, nowadays, escaping to the roof is taking on a whole new dimension with a phenomenon called “gr...

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  • Added: Jun 27, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1