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Hydrogen And Egg Shells
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2014 - 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...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Great Lakes Invaded By Goby
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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In April of 1990, biologist David Jude pulled a little bug-eyed fish from the Saint Claire River near Detroit. It was a Round Goby. Immediately, al...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Health And Pollution
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The latest air pollution discovery reads like a murder mystery. Thousands died from strokes and heart attacks within 24 hours after jumps in partic...

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  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Mikie Show #69 Vicki
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Episode sixty-nine has arrived in a totally cybernetic way! Join us as we speak with Vicki Brown, a Ph.D. in Research Methodology and a rockin’ vio...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2014
  • Length: 28:02
Building the geologic history of Game of Thrones
From: Generation Anthropocene
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Ever wonder what Westeros looked like long before the Starks, Baratheons, Lannisters, or Targaryens roamed its surface? How far back can we really ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 10, 2014
  • Length: 05:07
  • Purchases: 1
Recycling Wind Turbines
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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With wind turbines popping up all over the world, wind power is quickly becoming one of today's most popular renewable energy sources. But in the m...

Bought by KTXK and KKRN


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Decrease In Plant Species
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Remember Pete Seeger's song, "Where have all the flowers gone?" He blamed their disappearance on young girls picking them. But with 8,000 flowers a...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Tofu Glue Is Sticking
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Easing fossil fuel dependence involves more than energy-efficient cars and light bulbs. It also involves tofu. That's because scientists at the U.S...

Bought by WXDU and KKRN


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
'Green' Concrete
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The road to a sustainable future could soon be paved with green concrete. Okay, not as enchanting as a road paved with gold. But since some 27,000 ...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Fox Food
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The good news, wildlife can adapt and thrive to urban living. The bad news, its fast food for foxes.

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Project Open Hand
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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San Francisco's Project Open Hand is in a lot of hot water these days. About 170,000 gallons a year, to be exact. And it's heated by clean, non-pol...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Endangered Banana
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Did you know bananas might soon slip into history? That's because from Paris to Peoria, we all eat only one variety, and it's vulnerable to a fungu...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Fuel Cells Improve With Platinum
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - 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 bef...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Costly Invasive Fire Ants
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - 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. It involves using insec...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Galapagos Conservation Helps Native Species
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Isolated from the rest of the world for most of their existence, the Galapagos Islands are home to more unique plant species than almost any other ...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Going Green, Vegas Style
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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In today's Las Vegas, there's more than money that's green. The desert city's hotels and casinos are going green, as in environmentally friendly, b...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Forests Changing In Midwest
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Midwestern settlers of yesterday would feel unsettled by what they'd see there today. They wouldn't recognize the forests for the trees.

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Invasive Algae Vacuumed Up
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Okay, so you're out in the clear waters of Hawaii and notice that algae are smothering the beautiful coral reefs just below the surface. What's goi...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Keeping Methane In Check
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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University of Calgary biology professor, Peter Dunfield, has been to hell and back looking for ways to keep methane gas out of the atmosphere.

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Sun In Spain Good For Solar Farm
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain. But near Serpa, in neighboring Portugal, the sun shines nearly all the time. This is why an internatio...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Water Pollution Cleanup
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: April 2014 - 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...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
Tiger Conservation Population Model
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Serie
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It may not be plain to see “we’ve got a tiger by the tail” -- as the song Buck Owens made popular insists. But we do seem to have ’em right where ...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Feb 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Pond Recovery Study
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Serie
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When rain refills a dried out pond, life soon returns to normal. Frogs croak, algae grows and dragonflies dart back and forth. But Jonathan Chase o...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Feb 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Reducing Exposure to Air Pollution
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Serie
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If you’re stuck in traffic, here’s something you might be interested in knowing. A University of Southern California research group reports that ne...

Bought by WXDU and KSKQ


  • Added: Feb 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 2
The Wrong Fish
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Serie
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It’s another conservation success? Maybe not. The greenback cutthroat trout was declared extinct in 1937, but a few populations were found in Color...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Feb 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1

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