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Serengeti’s Conservation Battles, Whiskey Biofuel, Bacteria in Space
Podcast 81: Controversy over proposal to build a road through Tanzania's Serengeti National Park. Scientists have made biofuel from whiskey byproducts. A newly found bacteria survived a year in space. »
Saving Lebanon’s Cedar Trees, Black Carbon & Climate Change
Podcast 80: Efforts to save Lebanon's threatened cedar trees. Black carbon, a component of soot, is a potent climate warmer. Scientists have stumbled upon a rare magnetic star. »
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. »
Journalist Fred Pearce on Population
Podcast 77: World population is set to increase to 9 billion by 2050. But veteran environmental journalist Fred Pearce says overpopulation no longer threatens the environment as much as consumption does. »
Defusing the Population Bomb
Forum 18: Population is no longer the root cause of many environmental problems, says veteran environmental journalist Fred Pearce. He explains why consumption poses a bigger threat than population. »
A Controversy Over Commercial Whaling, Racial Bias & Empathy
Podcast no. 69: Should small-scale commercial whaling be legalized? Unconscious bias affects our ability to empathize with people of different racial origin. Locust brains get bigger in swarms. Air traffic emissions. »
Whaling – Politics, Science & Ethics
Forum 15: The International Whaling Commission is considering lifting a moratorium on commercial whaling. Marine biologist Stephen Palumbi says that might not be a good idea for endangered whale species. »
Lizard Extinction, Oil in the Deep Ocean, Neanderthals and Us
Podcast 66: A new study suggests that global warming is threatening the world's lizard species. A team of researchers study the impacts of oil in deep ocean environment. Neanderthals and humans interbred. »
Elephants Cry “Bee-ware!”, Oil Spill & US Climate Policy, Asian Carp
Podcast 65: Elephants are afraid of bees. The oil spill in the Gulf coast may impact U.S climate policy. Efforts to rename an invasive Asian fish. The genetics of regenerating worm heads. »
Engineering the Climate, Cycling with Parkinson’s Disease
Podcast 61: The ethics and geopolitics of engineering a cooler planet. A patient with Parkinson's disease takes off on a bicycle. And Kenyan zebras and wildebeest being relocated to Amboselli National Park. »

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