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Reattaching Giant Sponges
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The animated character Spongebob Squarepants is running loose on the ocean floor everyday of the week after school on the Nickelodean channel. And ...

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
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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
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Swiss Glaciers
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Time was, armies and rulers determined international boundaries. Today global warming does. That's what's happening between Switzerland and Italy, ...

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
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Horseshoe Crabs And Red Knots
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The flight from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic tops 9,300 miles. If you're a red knot, a dove-sized shorebird that makes that migration yearly, you...

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
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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
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Unidentified Floating Object
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Tracy Collier of Newport News, Virginia, was walking her boss's dog near her office, when she noticed the blob. She was walking around a man-made l...

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
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Stopping Stowaway Species
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Humans aren't the only ones collecting frequent flier miles. Turns out bugs, seeds and pathogens are frequently hitching rides on airplanes as stow...

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
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Plague On The Prairie
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The black plague once decimated human towns in Medieval Europe. Today it's hitting prairie dog towns on the grasslands of the northern Midwest.

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
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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
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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
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Prevent Disease With Trees
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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What does rain forest conservation have to do with preventing malaria? In the Amazon rainforest, the means to these two ends are virtually one in t...

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
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Room For Peace
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Bringing countries together to protect our natural environment looks good on paper. Real good, in fact.

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
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Protecting The Puffin
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Saving the puffins is a tough job. But folks in Maine miss the colorful little birds resembling miniature penguins that can fly. Still plentiful th...

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
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Habitat Corridors Not Always Coolest
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - 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...

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
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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
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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
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Save The Butterflies
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The Fritillaries are frittering away! There's the Marsh Fritillary. The Pearl-bordered Fritillary. And the most endangered fritillary of them all, ...

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Pachyderms: Pint Sized Surprise
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - 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: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
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What’s In A Suriname?
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2014 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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And now a good news, bad news, good news story. First, the first good news.

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
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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
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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
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