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Batteries Powered by Sugar

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series

i-Pods powered by Kool-Aid? Yep. They might be just around the corner -- no kidding!

Bought by KOSU

Added: Sep 25, 2011
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 1

Grass Defends Turf Naturally

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series

“Get out of my space -- or else!” Most people don’t know it, but some plants go to extremes to defend their turf.

Bought by KOSU

Added: Sep 25, 2011
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 1

Monitoring Carbon

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Catch the news and weather at 10 tonight along with the day’s carbon report. Carbon report? That’s right.

Bought by KOSU

Added: Sep 25, 2011
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 1

XptA1: Nature’s Pesticide

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series

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...

Bought by KOSU

Added: Sep 25, 2011
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 1

Carbon Storage in Mangroves

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Mangrove trees are simply amazing, in a sci-fi kind of way. They live in perhaps the most hostile plant environment imaginable.

Bought by KOSU

Added: Sep 25, 2011
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 1

Invasion of Monster Toads

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Now playing in Australia: Invasion of the Monster Toads! Today’s story began back in the 1930s when Australia’s sugar-cane farmers had a problem.

Bought by Prairie Public and KOSU

Added: Sep 25, 2011
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 2

Banking on Seeds

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series

I don’t know if Santa Claus ever collected seeds, but one of his neighbors sure does. About 200 miles from the North Pole, the United States is bui...

Bought by KOSU

Added: Sep 25, 2011
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 1

Mapping Elephant DNA

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Over the years, treasure maps have been of such interest that the Library of Congress devoted a volume to them! Now, a new kind of map is proving t...

Bought by KOSU

Added: Sep 25, 2011
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 1

Cave Habitats

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Nature builds neighborhoods in the most interesting places. Caves, for example, are pretty spectacular neighborhoods.

Bought by KOSU

Added: Sep 25, 2011
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 1

A Future for Taz

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Sometimes the devil makes for good company -- at least that's what they think in Tasmania.

Bought by KOSU

Added: Sep 25, 2011
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 1

Logging Underwater

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series

If a tree at the bottom of a lake falls, does it make a sound? Either way, it doesn’t matter to lumberjacks at the Triton Logging Company.

Bought by KOSU

Added: Sep 25, 2011
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 1

Bacteria Super Power

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Batman step aside! You're no match for these polluting villains.

Bought by KOSU

Added: Sep 25, 2011
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 1

Carbon Away

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series

There’s a bounty on carbon dioxide molecules these days. And for good reason.

Bought by KOSU

Added: Sep 25, 2011
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 1

Eavesdropping on Elephants

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series

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...

Bought by KOSU

Added: Aug 24, 2011
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 1

Rubber Hits the Road

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Old tires. Mountains of rubber. What’s happening with to them these days? Well, in Pennsylvania, they’re hitting the road!

Bought by KOSU

Added: Aug 24, 2011
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 1

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series

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...

Bought by KOSU

Added: Aug 24, 2011
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 1

Doggie Doo

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series

So what should you do with your doggie's doo? Your dog Fido probably wishes you’d just leave it in the yard -- let the world know that somebody imp...

Bought by KOSU

Added: Aug 24, 2011
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 1

Mysterious Vulture Deaths

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series

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...

Bought by KOSU

Added: Aug 24, 2011
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 1

Bats Deliver Seeds

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series

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...

Bought by KOSU

Added: Aug 24, 2011
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 1

Ocean Sinks

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series

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...

Bought by KOSU

Added: Aug 24, 2011
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 1

The Little Cod

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Followers of fish facts -- especially North Atlantic Cod enthusiasts -- are doing a double-take these days.

Bought by KOSU

Added: Aug 24, 2011
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 1

Delta Decline

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series

The forested wetlands of Louisiana have inspired Hollywood movie scenes ever since the ‘talkies.’ But the Cypress swamps and floating marshes of Ba...

Bought by KOSU

Added: Aug 24, 2011
Length: 01:30
Purchases: 1

Finding Food in Africa

From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2011 - Isla Earth Radio Series

Sometimes you don’t have to look far to find a solution. While 300 million people in Africa suffer from hunger and malnutrition, the most popular ...

Bought by KOSU

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

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....

Bought by KOSU