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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. »
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
