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John Vaillant’s ‘The Tiger,’ Protecting Wild Tigers, Wheat Genome
Podcast 82: The true story of a tiger in the Russian far-east that killed a poacher for revenge. Efforts to save wild tigers from the brink of extinction. First draft sequences of wheat genome released. »
Saving Wild Tigers
Forum 20: Wild tigers are on the decline globally. Today there are less than 4000 of them in 13 countries. Can we save the last remaining tigers? We talk to tiger biologist, John Seidensticker. »
Citizens Help Discover Pulsar, Lost Frogs, Stem Cell Work in China
Podcast 79: Citizens' computers help scientists discover Pulsar. China emerges as a player in stem cell research. Scientists go looking for lost frogs. Iceberg breaks off in Greenland. »
GM Foods in Europe, Organic Food Industry, Ancient Brown Shoe
Podcast 71: Germany's schizophrenia about genetically modified foods? The need to regulate the organic food market. An old Armenian shoe from the Copper age. A paleo-climatologist's favorite music for work. »
Termites on Kenyan Savanna,Treating Mental Illness in Sudan
Podcast 68: Termites are key to the savanna ecosystem in Kenya. People in Sudan are combining spiritual healing with modern Western-style psychiatrists. Transgenic cotton suffers a setback in China. »
China’s Water Woes, Rebuilding a Footbridge Across the Blue Nile
Podcast 54: China's water pollution problems are worse than previously thought. American volunteers rebuild an ancient footbridge across the Blue Nile in Ethiopia. New facts about whale evolution. »
Preventing Future Bhopals
Forum 6: A quarter century after the worst industrial accident in Bhopal, India toxic chemicals still threaten lives in the developing world. What can be done to safeguard the public such from toxic hazards? »
Beyond Copenhagen, Mammograms Around the World
Podcast 41: Looking at international climate negotiations post-Copenhagen. International recommendations on mammograms. China is looking to remove some dams on the Yangtze River. »
Bangladesh Protects Against the Sea, China Promotes Creativity
Podcast 35: Bangladeshi farmers protect their land from rising sea levels. China promotes creativity. Queen Victoria's descendants had hemophilia B. Saturn's giant ring. »
Ancient Human Ancestor, Ig Nobel Awards, Champagne Bubbles
Podcast 34: Meet Ardi, an ancient human ancestor. Bubbles are key to Champagne's flavors. This year's Nobel contenders -- and Ig Nobel winners. China's inventive past. »
The World Science Forum
The future for tigers looks dismal. Poaching and habitat-loss threaten the last remaining tigers in the wild.
"If there isn’t an incentive to make live tigers worth more than dead tigers, we’ll lose tigers,” says John Seidensticker. He is a conservation biologist at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington D.C. and is an adviser for the Global Tiger Initiative.
Seindesticker is also the guest in our latest World Science Forum.
Learn how we can protect wild tigers. Join the online conversation. The discussion is live now!
The World Science Podcast
