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Challenges to Conquering Polio, Google Baby, Caravaggio’s Remains
Podcast 72: Can polio be eradicated? 'Google Baby' - a new documentary about outsourcing egg surrogacy. An update on the future of commercial whaling. Prehistoric migrations to the Americas. »
Raptors in Beijing and other Cities, Roman Ingots, Asteroid Water
Podcast 64: Raptors are struggling to survive in Beijing, while they're starting to adapt in other cities around the world. The stories are linked to the online discussion about urban raptors over in our Science Forum. »
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. »
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. »
City Bees, Predicting Earthquakes
Podcast 9: Urban beekeeping in Germany. Green architecture in Canada. The perils of predicting earthquakes. Plus chimps and mosquitoes. »
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
