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Peace Parks
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Bringing countries together to protect our natural environment looks good on paper...The book, "Peace Park" is a collection of articles written by ...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
Habitat Corridors Not Always Coolest
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Imagine trying to get home by running across a busy freeway. Without a walkway, a stoplight or a crosswalk, it could be a dangerous adventure. Well...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
Polluted Penguin Poo
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
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...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
Warming Trends and Hurricanes
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: February 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
We've all seen the tremendous destructive power of hurricanes. There were a record number of hurricanes in 2005, and future hurricane seasons may b...

  • 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
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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
Callendar Effect, Affects Change
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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In 1938, scientist Guy Stewart Callendar wrote a paper answering the question of whether carbon levels affect climate change...

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  • Added: Dec 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
What's in a Suriname?
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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There's good news and bad news from the northern Amazon nation of Suriname...

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  • Added: Dec 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Clap for the Clapper Rail
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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You'd have to look hard to find the light-footed clapper rail these days. One reason is that this small, brown bird blends in well with its wetland...

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  • Added: Dec 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Of Pirates and Scientists
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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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...

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  • Added: Dec 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Pachyderms: Pint Sized Surprise
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Today's creature feature is on a petite pachyderm that has dark gray to reddish brown skin and abundant hair that is finer and softer than a "norma...

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  • Added: Dec 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Dust Bowl Survivor
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2008 - 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: Dec 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Conservation Landscaping
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Did the sun burn a hole in your wallet this past summer? It certainly did for some folks. You see, it takes plenty of water to keep a yard beautif...

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  • Added: Dec 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Forest Floor Junk
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Pick up your toys! That's what mom used to say... So why not do the same in a forest? After a company logs an area, they ought to pick up after the...

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  • 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.

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  • Added: Dec 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:28
  • Purchases: 1
Tuna Tagging
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Hello, Bluefin Tuna. Tag, you're it! You are among the last of a species that once thrived throughout the Atlantic.

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  • Added: Dec 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • 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...

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  • Added: Dec 19, 2007
  • Length: 01:28
  • Purchases: 1
Saving Australian Savanna
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Welcome to the world's largest tropical grasslands. Covering more territory than all of Western Europe, they stretch for over twelve hundred miles ...

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  • Added: Dec 14, 2007
  • Length: 01:27
  • Purchases: 1
Root and Tillage
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2008 - 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: Dec 14, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Algae Biodiesel
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Fill 'er up with: Algae 100 - you know, the gas that's made from those golden brown or green plants growing along our coasts...

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  • Added: Nov 19, 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.

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  • Added: Nov 19, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
America's Wetland
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
New Orleans. Home to Dixieland Jazz, Mardi Gras, and some of the best fresh seafood you'll ever eat. Shrimp etouffee. Oysters on the half shell. Wh...

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  • Added: Nov 19, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Desalination for Water
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Desalination may not be the best solution for providing water.

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  • Added: Nov 13, 2007
  • Length: 01:31
  • Purchases: 1
A Brief History of Mistletoe
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Dallying under the Mistletoe during the holiday season is an ancient tradition among lovers young and old. But, the green sprig, tied with a red b...

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  • Added: Nov 13, 2007
  • Length: 01:18
  • Purchases: 1
Dirty Snow
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: December 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Remember the warning "don't eat yellow snow"? Maybe not if you grew up in Hawaii or Florida - but, it's bad. It turns out that dirty snow is bad, ...

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  • Added: Nov 13, 2007
  • Length: 01:23
  • Purchases: 1