Pulse of the Planet Podcast with Jim ...
Each weekday, Pulse of the Planet provides its listeners with a two-minute sound portrait of Planet Earth, tracking the rhythms of nature, culture and science worldwide and blending interviews and extraordinary natural sound.
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Serenading Moths
Tiger moths woo their partners with a series of clicking sounds.
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Finding Meteorites
They come in all shapes and sizes, but what are the chances of actually finding a meteorite?
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Blood Meal
The surprising truth about why mosquitoes need your blood.
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Controlling Zika - Transgenic Mosquitos
Making male mosquitos with the "Nix Gene".
2 min
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Refuge
Great Gull Island is one of the few remaining places where terns can nest and raise their young in safety.
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A Feast for Voles
What to do when an island bird refuge gets overgrown with plants?
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Elephants and Orvilles
Who says elephants can't fly?
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Sealing our Fate, Just Like Birds
An elaborate Indonesian death ritual takes its cues from the mating habits of the Hornbill bird.
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Hornbills and Humans
Sometimes animals remind us we have more in common with them than we think.
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Mushroom Hunting - Morels
On the trail of the world's most sought-after mushroom.
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Mushroom Hunting - Unseen World
In any forest, there's a complex interdependent web of life underground.
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Mushroom Hunting - What Lies Beneath
A mushroom is the visible part of a much larger organism.
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Bears at McNeil River- An Essential Meal
Bears at Alaska's McNeil River have come to rely on an annual fish feast.
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Bears at McNeil River
Over a hundred brown bears in Alaska have learned that every July, the McNeil River is THE place to catch fish.
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Black Skimmers
This summer, an endangered seabird will find one of its last remaining safe havens on the salt marshes off the coast of New Jersey.
2 min
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Parallax View
Fledgling seabirds must the trick of catching fish beneath the surface of the water.
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Hajj: Sacred Gathering
Millions of Muslim pilgrims gather this week in Mecca, in a gathering which transcends the barriers of caste, color, race and gender.
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Hajj: Pilgrimage to Mecca
At least once in their lives, all Muslims who are physically and financially able are enjoined to make a pilgrimage to Mecca.
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Lovebugs Meet Their Nemesis
Yet another reason to have electric cars!
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Moths, Moonlight - and Your Car
Why are moths attracted to light bulbs?
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The Splat Test
There's a lot to learn from the big blob left on your windshield by an unfortunate horse fly.
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Windshield Entomology
Here's a new way to pass the time on a long car ride.
3 min
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The Clammer
It's clamming season in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
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Gobi Desert - the Wind is Up
Fierce windstorms in the Gobi Desert force scientists working there to think fast and run even faster.
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Hippos - How Low Can They Go?
These three-ton animals may communicate using sounds below the range of human hearing.
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