Wine & Wildlife
Wildlife often suffer from our insatiable need for agricultural land. But researchers in California are finding that birds and vineyards can actually benefit each other.
Environment Roundup
There's good news about both sea turtles and solar energy.
Rise of the Jellyfish
Giant jellyfish have what it takes to become king of the seas in the future.
Psychology Roundup
More time spent playing outside could help decrease symptoms in children with ADHD.
Endangered Stem Cells
Stem cell research could help bring drill monkeys and northern white rhinos back from the brink of extinction.
Podcast for 9 September 2011
MARVELS OF EVOLUTION - A prehistoric pregnancy clears up a Mesozoic mystery. The economics of plant-fungi cooperation. How to get six butterflies in one. Counting up the species on earth. And how your stress could be bad news for your mate if you're a finch.
Species Roundup
A new study documents the rate at which species are moving toward the poles or up the sides of mountains to escape climate change.
Waste Heat Cooling
A prototype cooling system runs on waste heat from car exhaust.
Toxic Animal Roundup
Cats are transmitting a dangerous brain disease to wildlife.
Tsunamis & Sealife
A listener asks: What happens to the seafloor and to sealife when tsunamis hit?
Podcast for 20 May 2011 – All That Glitters
The soaring price of gold drives deforestation in the Amazon, colonoscopies laced with gold could help detect cancer, and honey protects against antibiotic resistance. Also: a starless starfish, and a jellyfish that navigates without a brain.
Gold & Deforestation
Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest increases as gold prices rise.
Zebra Barcodes
Zebra stripes resemble barcodes, and could help researchers keep track of each member of the herd.
Bird Collisions
A new study suggests that to keep birds from crashing into manmade objects, we need to stop treating them like humans with wings.
Podcast for 8 April 2011
Football and family violence, rooting out insects, a question of taste, and a bird's eye view for danger.
Soundscape Ecology
An emerging scientific field studies the ecology of sound.
Everglades Pythons
Invasive Burmese pythons are feasting on native birds in the Everglades.
Podcast for 25 March 2011
A new generation of self-conscious robots, how sunshine affects drugs in the body, new research into the prevention of cleft lips, why it's hard to stay focused for long periods of time, and what sound recordings can tell us about the health of natural habitats.
Storing the Wind
The Department of Energy is developing new ways to store energy.
Podcast
ANIMAL STORIES: An Australian bird benefits when its predator sings, what happens when bees get sleepy, the invasion of the giant fish, eating insects to slow global warming, and a female pterodactyl fossil is discovered in China.
Asian Carp Invasion
Scientists are using DNA to track the invasion of Asian carp in the United States.
Biodiversity & Health
Losing plant and animal species promotes the spread of some human diseases.
Modified Mosquito Roundup
Sterilized male mosquitoes are part of a grand experiment in biocontrol on Grand Cayman Island.
Toxic Cavefish
A toxic plant used in a traditional religious ritual is shaping the evolution of a Mexican cavefish.