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Robofish
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Technology inspired by nature, to help nature. That's the case at the University of Michigan, where engineer Xiaobo Tan and zoologist Elena Litchma...

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  • Added: Oct 31, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Flashing Lights Save Birds
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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And to the Red Light District, for birds. Migratory birds make amazing journeys to their wintering grounds and back. But conservation scientist Joe...

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  • Added: Oct 31, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Tidal Barrages
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Britain's Navy, it was once said, ruled the waves! Someday the island nation hopes to command its tides, and generate clean electricity.

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Virus Battery
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The environmentally polite thing to do in the future might be to give your battery the flu. That's right: Batteries may soon run on a virus.

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Internet Insights
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Forget using the Internet to track fashion trends. Internet chatter may actually be able to predict ecological changes.

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
White Shark Cafe
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Sharks, it seems, are not unpredictable nomads. They're more like commuters: As predictable in their travels as the office carpool. And that fact c...

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Bacteria Super Power
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Batman step aside! You're no match for these polluting villains. Polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, make the Riddler look like a saint. They're fo...

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Carbon Away
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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There's a bounty on carbon dioxide molecules these days. And for good reason. Too much C02 can create global trouble by trapping heat in our planet...

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Energy From Barnyard Waste
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Forget Chicken Little's paranoid delusions about the sky falling. With chicken litter, we really do have a problem. More than 5.6 million tons of i...

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Root And Tillage
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Farmers, start your vacations. Because after crops come in, you can leave the debris where it is and let microbes do the rest.

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Penguin Poo At Pole Polluted
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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If you're wondering how our penguin friends in the Antarctic are doing these days, here are the cold, hard facts. Their poo is getting mighty pollu...

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Tuna Tagging
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - 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: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Dust Bowl Survivor
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Sunday, April 14th, 1935, mid-afternoon: A monstrous black dust cloud quickly forms over southwest Kansas -- and within minutes, people were runnin...

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Bird Friendly Turbines
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Wind turbines are a great source for alternative energy. They're less great, however, for birds.

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Green Roofs
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Remember Carole King's song, "Up on the Roof"? You know...When this old world starts a getting me down, And people are just too much for me to face...

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
New Tool May Help Save Endangered Plants
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Unless you like plants, you might find them rather boring. After all, they don't seem to do much. And, they're not cute and cuddly. But in fact, th...

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Callendar Effect, Affects Change
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Wouldn't it be great to have a freeway named after you, a galaxy - or, maybe a complex formula for calculating carbon dioxide's effect on climate c...

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Biodegradable Car
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Henry Ford had the right idea. Back in the early 1940s, he developed the world's first "bio-car." Actually, it was a prototype displayed once at a ...

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
More Power To Cattle
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Attention feed lot operators. Panda Energy International in Hereford, Texas, wants your manure. But only the good stuff.

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Patent For Better Insulation
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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There's a fungus among us that could become a more environmentally-friendly way to weatherize your home, or business. Eben Bayer, a recent graduate...

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Take Home Box
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Here's a home that's truly "outside the box" -- or inside, depending on where you stand. They're made out of recycled steel shipping containers. Ye...

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
RBI Highlights Conservation Needs
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Get in and get out! It works for the Navy Seals. So why not do the same with a crack team of scientists?

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Drinking Ocean Water
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Experts say that as population and water use rise, the world's fresh water supplies are shrinking. Then why don’t we desalinate more sea water and…...

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Rice Growers Go Dry
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Did you know rice doesn’t need to grow in water? In fact, the main reason for rice paddies is to prevent weeds.

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
“Good Onya, Oz”
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Think you know how to conserve water? Not like Australia, mate, it's in its worst drought on record. Some toddlers Down Under don't even know what ...

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1