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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. »
Pedal Power in Europe, Solar Power in Africa, Pandas Galore
Podcast 25: Three energy-related stories – two on solar power, and one on a European bike mecca. Plus an old animal who’s learned a new trick. »
China Goes Green, The EU Debates Biofuels, Swearing Eases Pain
Podcast 23: Two views on China’s push to become greener, biofuel controversy in Europe, and a look at how jockeys can make a horse go faster. »
Tuna in Trouble, Swine Flu Fears in Africa, Mummy CAT Scans
Podcast 21: Watching for swine flu in Africa. Germany leads the way on renewable energy. Mediterranean bluefin tuna, in deep trouble. A mummy CAT scan. »
Spain Uses the Sun, an Inbred Royal Family
Podcast 10: Spain leads the way in wind and solar energy. An innovative design for cardboard solar ovens. And the genetic demise of the Spanish Hapsburg Dynasty. »
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
