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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. »
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. »
Swine Flu in the Amazon, Fixing Technological Fixes, Tsavo Lions
Podcast 39: Swine flu spreads far and wide. A story about bringing renewable energy to the rural poor in Nicaragua. And a conversation with engineer Anu Ramaswami about why technological fixes often fail. »
Cyprus Water Woes, Conservation Refugees, Saving Kenya’s Lions
Podcast 37: Cyprus is facing dire water shortage. Conservation movement has created many refugees. Kenya is proposing a controversial plan to save its lions. »
A Painter-Astronaut, Green Amsterdam, Creationism in Turkey
Podcast 22: An artistic astronaut. The G8 and climate change. An anti-Darwinist in Turkey. Saving wildlife in Kenya. »
A Linguist’s Dream, Declining Wildlife, a Narcissistic World Leader
Podcast 15: A linguist’s dream study (deferred), a famed wildlife reserve suffers a decline, and psychoanalyzing a narcissistic world leader. »
No Smiles In Russia, Old Forests Vs. New
Podcast 6: A cross-cultural psychology of smiling. Panama and the HPV vaccine. A debate over new-growth tropical forests. And America's role in China’s pollution problem. »
Prehistoric Sex, Ancient Footprints
Podcast 3: Prehistoric sex. Ancient human footprints. A lost city in the Amazon. The cult of the future. And a hormone that increases a woman's odds of cheating on her partner. »
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
