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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Peacocks Mate
It's mating season for one of the world's most recognizable birds.
2 min
702
Saimaa Seals
This week in Finland, freshwater Saimaa seals are giving birth to their pups.
2 min
703
Nature's Environmental Engineers
Constantly refining their habitat, prairie dogs play a key role in their ecosystem.
2 min
704
Prairie Dogs Mate
There's lots of yipping going on beneath the Great Plains of America.
3 min
705
Nesting Albatross
What happens when thousands of albatrosses meet on a South Pacific island?
2 min
706
Manatee Migration
The power plants along the Florida shore have changed the manatee's migration pattern, both helping these endangered animals and hindering them.
2 min
707
Setsubun
It's "the turning of the seasons in Japan,” a time of celebration, good luck, and beans!
2 min
708
A Drop in the Bucket
It's sugaring time in the northeast woods of the US.
2 min
709
Science Destinations - Europe
From CERN's collider to Darwin's wall.
2 min
710
Fullerenes
The places where engineered nanomaterials - like Fullerenes - are being manufactured have the potential for the highest exposure to people of toxic materials.
2 min
711
Honoring the Needles of Yore
Harikuyo is a memorial service for the broken sewing needles of the past year, celebrated across Japan.
2 min
712
Window to the Past
Geologists reconstruct the climates of yore by looking at the types of clay minerals that are preserved.
2 min
713
A Trojan Horse Made of Clay
Fooling cancer cells!
2 min
714
It Comes in Many Guises
Wherever you may be right now, odds are you're not far from clay in one form or another.
2 min
715
Clay - Incredibly Useful
From porcelain to plastic!
3 min
716
Creator, Trickster, Thief
Through trickery and ingenuity, ravens are surviving the winter in Alaska
3 min
717
Mystery Sound
Is it a bird?
2 min
718
A Call to Mate or a Call to Arms?
The precise role of the humpback whale's song is unknown.
2 min
719
It Knocks a Great Hole in Winter
The Up Helly Aa festival gives the people of the Shetland Islands a chance to torch a replica of a Viking galley.
2 min
720
Giant Pickles With Wings
They might be the source of many ocean myths.
2 min
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Elders of the Forest
The wail of the Indri lemur signals the mating season of these primates that some tribes consider the ancestors of humans.
2 min
722
Loons Migrate
The Common Loon, is anything but common, and they're on their way South.
2 min
723
Bison Winter at Yellowstone
Even the "chief of all animals" must struggle to survive the winter.
2 min
724
Champion Deep Divers
They can dive continuously to depths of up to one mile!
3 min
725
Bullies on the Beach
What's 16 feet long, weighs up to two tons and monopolizes the sands of Ano Nuevo every year?
2 min