Tag Archive
Nile Delta, Humming Bears, A Jurassic Sea Monster
Podcast 38: Nile Delta is among the top three places at risk from rising seas. American researchers find that Black Bears hum. Male French Brown bears short of females. And a Jurassic Sea Monster fossil. »
Swine Flu Vaccine, Mother-to-Daughter Cancer, Vegetarian Spider
Podcast 36: Responses to swine flu vaccine differ on either side of the Atlantic. A mother passed cancer cells to her fetus. Dyslexia more complex among Chinese speakers. »
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. »
Tiny T. Rex, Low-Carbon World Tour, Iceland Buries CO2
Podcast 32: A fossil find from Inner Mongolia. French President wants a carbon tax. A Londoner sets out on a low-carbon world tour. Iceland pumps CO2 underground. »
Bionic Eyes, Psychedelic Fish
Podcast 4: A high-tech treatment for blindness. The evolution of language. America's changing environmental policy. Going green in a very white place. And a colorful new fish. »
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
