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Turtles
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: May 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Marine scientists recently launched a pilot study to track the elusive loggerhead turtle. Even though loggerheads are the most common sea turtle in...

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
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Parking Lots
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: May 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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There’s a move to put the "park" back in parking lots! Several universities have explored the idea, testing pavements that absorbs water but keeps ...

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
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Water Rights
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: May 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Water conservationists might learn a thing or two from the oil industry. That’s right!

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Robofish
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Technology inspired by nature, to help nature. This led an engineer and a zoologist to create a fish-shaped robot...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Edible School
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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In two New Orleans schools, the favorite course is...lunch! But, not for the reason you might think.

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
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Better Packaging
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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t's difficult to imagine these days, with hermetically sealed food products everywhere, but there was a time when soda crackers were purchased out ...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
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Roof Gardens
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Why be boring and plant your garden in the ground when there’s a whole world of gardening possibilities up on the roof.

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Fish Food
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Aw, c'mon. Building a lakeside getaway...hurts fish? That sounds...fishy.

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Bale House
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Why build a house when you can grow one? So says sustainable building designers at Britain's University of Bath.

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Coral Reefs
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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When you think of Hollywood bad guys -- say, the Joker in Batman -- they’re ‘bad to the bone.’ They try to take over the town, seize its good citiz...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Toolbox for Green Classrooms
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Hooray for building environmentally friendly schools! But what about improving existing ones?

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
West Coast Impact
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The U.S. West Coast took a stress test recently and things aren’t looking so good.

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
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Fire and Climate Change
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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We live on a flammable planet! Consider our forests: Vegetation that dries out seasonally. And our atmosphere? Oxygen! Add lightening strikes, volc...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
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Lighting Up India’s Homes
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: April 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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In rural India, electricity is scarce. About 70 percent of rural areas have no electricity, so most families use kerosene lamps for light. These a...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Internet Insights
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: March 2012 - 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: Feb 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
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Reattaching Giant Sponges
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: March 2012 - 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: Feb 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Cozy Bats
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: March 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Putting space heaters in caves might sound…well, batty. But it could mean survival for bats in 17 Eastern states where a new disease has killed an ...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Flashing Lights Save Birds
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: March 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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And to the Red Light District, for birds. Migratory birds make amazing journeys to their wintering grounds and back. But conservation scientist Joe...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
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Keeping Bugs at Bay
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: March 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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No pesticides in America's classrooms, thank you very much! So says the Environmental Protection Agency. It recently unveiled new guidelines for pe...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Tiger Tally
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: March 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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What's the best way to capture a tiger? Carefully! That's sure true for scientist Ullas Karanth of the Wildlife Conservation Society. He's carefull...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
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Wetlands Rising
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: March 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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We've all heard about rising carbon dioxide levels. It's a major contributor to global warming. Now scientists say more CO2 may -- ironically -- be...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Tidal Barrages
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: March 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Britain's Navy, it was once said, ruled the waves! Someday the island nation hopes to command its tides, and generate clean electricity.

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
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Virus Battery
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: March 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The environmentally polite thing to do in the future might be to give your battery the flu. That's right: Batteries may soon run on a virus.

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
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Hydrogen Storage
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: March 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Gassing up new family cars with green, clean hydrogen is edging closer to reality. Case in point: Researchers at Purdue University, working with Ge...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Wolves of Isle Royale
From: Pat Maxwell
Series: March 2012 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Running with the wolves just isn't happening on upper Michigan's Isle Royale. That's because most wolves on the remote isle have advanced arthritis.

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1