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Plato & Music, Hope for AIDS Prevention, Cassava Sting Operation
Podcast 76: Plato's writings had a hidden musical structure. AIDS prevention efforts in Africa report some breakthroughs. Mounting an insect war to protect Thailand's cassava crops. »
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. »
Nigerian Farming Failures, Canada’s Oil Sands, Venomous Dinos
Podcast 47: U.S expands import of Canadian oil. Looking back at agricultural failures in Nigeria. Catch-shares stabilize some U.S. fisheries. »
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. »
A DDT Controversy, Reforesting Ghana, Senegalese Healers
Podcast 26: Controversy over DDT and malaria in Uganda. Traditional healers upstage Western doctors in Senegal. Planting trees, to forestall climate change, in Ghana. »
Factory Farms, Swine Slaughter, and Sleeping Americans
Podcast 13: How factory farms may incubate swine flu. Egypt decides to kill its pigs. And another big piece of Antarctic ice breaks off. »
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
