Tag Archive
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. »
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. »
No Sperm Donation for Turkish Women, A Young Indian Innovator
Podcast 58: Turkish women can no longer travel abroad to receive sperm donation. A young Indian boy has a system to protect clothes on clothes lines from getting wet in the rain. »
India’s Moratorium on Transgenic Eggplant, Science of a Shootout
Podcast 53: India just rejected a genetically modified variety of eggplant. A biologist and author talks about the role of GM crops in increasing food security. Science of a shootout. »
Bhopal Disaster, and Its Unlikely Legacy in the World
Podcast 43: This week marks the 25th anniversary of the chemical accident in a pesticide factory in Bhopal, India. We revisit the site of the accident, and learn about how it reduced chemical hazards worldwide. »
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? »
Monarch Navigation, Whale-eating Worms, UN Climate Summit
Podcast 33: World leaders meet at a UN climate summit. India promises to cut carbon emissions. Worms feed on dead whales. A new clue to monarch butterfly migration. »
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
