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Earthwatch Radio is a series of two minute programs on environmental issues and scientific research. It's produced at the University of Wisconsin-Madison by the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Sea Grant Institute. Primary Format : Blogs Also Listed as: Environment Science Talk City : Madison State/Province : WI Country : USA Country : NA User Tags: Warning: mysql_fetch_object(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /usr/home/sites/www.podcastdirectory.com/web/podcasts/index.php on line 218 User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: Talk Radio | Car talk | Talk | Environment | View this Podcast on a Google Map. Add to iTunes Text Only listing of Earthwatch Radio Podcasts Trumix.com listings available of Earthwatch Radio Podcasts Click Here to Update the directory of this podcasts programs.

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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fish Meal Pros and Cons A diet of fish can have significant health benefits, but some fish also accumulate chemical contaminants in their tissue. Health experts at Harvard weighed the pros and cons of fish in the diet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Plastic from Plants The first forms of plastic were made from plants 100 years ago, and that might happen again in the not-so-distant future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Climate Change and Business A business professor says some companies are dealing with climate change now to stay ahead of their competition in the future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Common Fate for Different Poles Global warming had a big impact on the Arctic 100,000 years ago and the consequences were felt at the other end of the world. The same thing could happen again. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Coastal Condo Crush Real estate developments and high taxes are creating serious problems for waterfront business operations and causing dramatic changes in some waterfront communities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Hot and Cold Cycle of Life Warmer temperatures could cause profound changes to the way the oceans circulate, and that could affect the cycles of life for marine plants and animals, too. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stir It Up Animals in the deep seas do a lot to keep the ocean in motion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Unpleasant Introductions Live seafood should be cooked and not released back into the wild. That happens sometimes, and it can have serious environmental consequences. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Deep Blue Mystery Scientists say tiny organisms in the ocean have a big impact on life on Earth, but a lot of their activities are not clearly understood. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Protecting the Prescription Protecting the PrescriptionThe toxic defenses of some marine creatures might lead to new drugs to fight cancer, but the route to the pharmacy shelf is a long one. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Trying to Get off the Hook The people who manage a vast wilderness in Ontario try to keep it that way with new requirements for fishing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stomata Science Researchers try to learn more about the respiration of plants to get a better idea of their impact on the Earth's atmosphere. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fish Without Oxygen Ocean waters off the coast of Oregon have been devoid of oxygen every summer since 2002. Scientists monitor the impact and try to understand the cause. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Look at the Gales of November Experts with the National Weather Service re-examine the horrific storm on Lake Superior that sank the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Too Far to Swim Polar bears in the Arctic spend a lot of their lives swimming between land and ice, and they might run into serious trouble as the ice cover of the Arctic Ocean disappears. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Problems Handling Heat Heat waves can kill a lot of people, and warnings about the risk don't always produce changes in behavior. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stress in Southern California Three centuries of stress are buried in Southern California along the infamous San Andreas Fault. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Designing a Cancer Cure Maps of marine molecules might give directions for new cancer drugs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website When the Grass was Greener Alaska was a green haven for all kinds of big animals -- and for some intrepid hunters -- about 13,000 years ago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Deer Data Drivers in the United States run into deer on the nation's highways hundreds of thousands of times every year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Way Down Deep Efforts to bring back a native fish in the Great Lakes might be paying off. There are signs that lake trout in Lake Michigan are spawning naturally in very deep water. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Green is a Soybean? People look at fuels made from corn and soybeans to see if it's worth the effort to make them -- to see if it takes more energy to produce biofuels than the fuels themselves provide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bird Herder Pubic officials in Chicago enlist obsessive dogs in a fight against prolific birds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Farewell, Alvin A U.S. research vessel that has been in service since the 1960s is headed toward retirement. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Story Time is Timeless An Abenaki storyteller from New York State keeps an ancient tradition alive and conveys timely lessons about people and nature. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fear Pressure Some people push themselves too hard to keep up with others on outdoor excursions. An author says that can be dangerous for everyone. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Change in service for Earthwatch Radio until spring 2007 The Earthwatch Radio program is changing its production schedule until spring 2007. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Drama of the Deep Some of the biggest predators in the deep ocean are large colonies of jellyfish. They sweep the water with "a curtain of death" and disintegrate when anyone tries to take their picture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Washington Elm According to legend, George Washington gathered his troops under a big elm tree in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the tree became famous. The fact that it didn't really happen is beside the point, says the author of a book about landmarks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Naturally Honest A writer says Mother Nature is one of the best guides through a world full of social chaos and deceptive messages. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lost and Found Frustration and panic can be your worst enemies when you're lost in the wilderness. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ticks on the Move Lyme disease and the ticks that carry it are spreading into more parts of Europe and North America. Climate change might be the reason. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Screening Out Nature People are sitting in front of televisions and computers more and getting out into nature less, according to a new study. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Slang in the Sails Shop talk that helped sailors run their ships two hundred years ago is still used by landlubbers today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Dry Future on the Prairie Some scientists say the western prairies of Canada face a shortage of water so severe that they call it an "impending water crisis." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beyond the Tailpipe Automobiles emit a lot of toxic materials, and not all of them come from the tailpipe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Sacred and the Profane Scientists usually avoid using spiritual terms, but David Suzuki says that sometimes keeps important ideas out of the discussion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Glow in the Deep A lot of sea creatures that live in deep, dark water make their own light. It's the rule rather than the exception in these environments. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Present Ice Age The world is warming up, yet we're stuck in an ice age. An earth scientist explains. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Strange Behavior by Polar Bears Scientists have evidence of unusual cannibalism by polar bears, and they say this might be related to stress from changes to their habitat. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Problems for the Low Life A survey of coastal areas around the world that have low elevations finds that a lot of people are vulnerable to storms and rising water. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Canine Friends of Trees and Trout As populations of wolves grow in Wisconsin and other places, a ripple effect is raising numbers of some trees and fish. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lessons of the Natural Life A biology professor says the students in his classes today need more education about the natural world than the students he saw years ago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Avoiding the Big Chill Scientists run computer predictions to see what a warmer world means for great ocean currents that run through the North and South Atlantic. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Poor Man's Horse The invention of the modern bicycle brought mobility to all levels of society. 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Life in the suburbs might make them worse. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eco-Efficient Business Economic experts look at ways to integrate environmental awareness into all aspects of industry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Toxic Bodies A group in the state of Washington tests people for toxic substances in their bodies, and it finds all kinds of chemicals from everyday products. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shorelines on the Move Coastal geologists look at the erosion of shorelines in a world that's getting warmer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Antarctica's Hidden Watershed There appears to be a network of rivers and lakes underneath the ice that covers Antarctica. 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"Exurbs" are even farther out into the countryside. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hurricane Blues Some of the wreckage of hurricanes is psychological, and many survivors carry an emotional burden years after the storms have faded away. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Plants and Weather Predictions Plants can release a lot of water vapor into the atmosphere, and weather experts say that's one of the ways plants can affect the behavior of severe storms. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Safe Seafood Shopping Consumers in Europe seem to prefer seafood that's brought to market with minimal impact on the environment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Very Viny Future Add this to the list of climate change woes: bigger poison ivy, and more potent, too. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Overweight by Design Does suburban sprawl add to America's obesity crisis? This doctor thinks so. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rabbit Feat The up-and-down fortunes of European rabbits demonstrate the law of unintended consequences when humans try to manipulate nature. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vulnerable Offspring Some practices used to raise fish in captivity might leave them vulnerable when they're released into the wild. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Conservation Comes First Some advice from an energy consultant: cut your energy waste before investing in solar panels or other renewable energy technologies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Plague on the Prairie Plague is killing prairie dogs in the West, depriving an endangered mammal of its favorite food. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website More Fuel for Hurricanes Researchers say the number of particularly intense hurricanes is growing, and it appears to be linked to the warming of the ocean surface. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website High-Traffic Habitat Roads disrupt the lives of wild animals in all kinds of ways, some of them subtle and surprising. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tossed in Space Tossed in Space Our exploration of space has left all kinds of litter in orbit, and it could become a health hazard for astronauts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Passing the Cost Electric bills keep rising, but an author says they still don’t cover the environmental and social cost of coal mining in the Southeast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lessons from the 70s The energy crises of the 1970s taught people how to conserve and be more efficient. An author says we need a refresher course. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Miles from their Moorings Commercial fishing boats that once worked in the Gulf of Mexico are still strewn across the marshes of Louisiana. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rocky Road for Ferrets Black-footed ferrets are the most endangered mammal in the U.S., but a concerted effort has brought them back on the Great Plains. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Saving Energy Begins at Home Things you can do to help keep those rising utility bills in check. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Importing Viruses Scientists say the international trade in wildlife should be regulated more closely to limit the international exchange of disease. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Long Reach of Lightning Lightning can travel sideways as well as up and down, and it can reach across the sky100 miles or more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Safe Crossing Wildlife managers in Canada have dramatically reduced roadkill by creating safe passages for animals over and under highways. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Largemouth Virus Movement An aquatic disease known as “largemouth bass virus” can pass from sick fish to healthy fish if anglers keep them together in holding tanks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Prehistoric Dentistry An anthropologist examines human teeth that are 9,000 years old and says they show signs of a trip to the dentist. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Top-Down Operations A growing amount of the coal we burn for electric power comes from Appalachian mountains that are being blasted away. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Growing Pains China’s economy is developing at an unprecedented rate, and that might force everyone to change the way we use natural resources. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Beauty of Survival Our love of natural beauty might be based on our survival instincts, according to a Washington biologist. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Missing the Mark Government policies have succeeded in removing lead and other toxic pollutants from the environment. But some communities still face a disproportionate share of these risks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Movement's Changing Face Public opinion polls show a marked change in the types of people who are active environmental advocates. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Right Whales Phone Home Scientists work on ways to protect right whales along the Atlantic Coast, and their new warning system uses cell phone technology and the Internet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fueling a Debate Even experts can't agree whether ethanol produced from corn is worth the energy that goes into it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Regulating Monitors A growing number of states are following California's lead and tackling the issue of electronic waste. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Trading Animals and Ailments We might never understand the full trajectory of human epidemics until we understand their origins in livestock and wildlife. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Flush Factor Officials in the plumbing industry say they've overcome the difficulties of making efficient low-flush toilets. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Quagga Mussel Mess The quagga mussel is an exotic shellfish that's taken hold in the Great Lakes, and it's overrunning the territory of yet another invasive species. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Leaded Landfills More and more consumer electronics are discarded in landfills, and that means more lead and other heavy metals are going into the ground. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Running the Gauntlet Migrations of right whales on the East Coast run at 90-degrees to shipping routes, and collisions with ships put the whales at risk of extinction. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Speaking of Science Scientists traditionally stick to the lab and leave policy making to others. But that's changing in the face of growing environmental challenges. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Against the Flow Airports are going to great lengths to mop up de-icing fluid to keep the stuff out of nearby waters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nothing New in this Story A San Francisco group pledges to stop buying new things, and people around the world follow their lead. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Strange Weather Strange events that sometimes accompany extreme weather are explained in a new book by an Arizona scientist. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Planning for Bird Flu The movement of avian influenza across continents could be a huge threat to international security. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Flashing a Warning to Waterfowl Experts rebuild populations of trumpeter swans in the Upper Midwest, but they run into problems when the birds fly into power lines. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Let Us Know What You Think of Earthwatch Radio We’d like to hear from you! Please contact us and let us know what you think of our program. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science and Religion Two world views that have clashed for centuries find common ground on climate change. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fungal Frog Killer Researchers focus on a fungus that's killing frogs in parts of the world, and they find that warmer weather is part of the problem. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Metal Supplies and Demands Researchers at Yale look at world supplies of copper and other metals. They say what's still in the ground will run out someday because worldwide demand is so high. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fish, Fungus and Frogs A complex combination of natural and human impacts have put a mountain frog in peril in Yosemite National Park. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ecosystem on the Hoof When an Arctic caribou herd migrates to its calving grounds, lots of other animals move with it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Minnesota’s Windy Campus A university in Minnesota draws half of its electricity from a wind turbine commissioned last year on Earth Day. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Saving the Chesapeake Efforts to help the ailing Chesapeake Bay depend on the participation of farmers and homeowners as well as government agencies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Disordered Eating A serious disruption in the Great Lakes appears to be forcing a native fish onto a diet of junk food. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Winter's Toll on Summer Streams The salt used to make roads safe in the winter apparently can linger in streams and groundwater long after the winter ends. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Climatic Infections Global warming poses a growing threat to the health of both animals and people. 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