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.

Science
Natural Sciences
Technology
1626
Soil - Nano Attraction
Can iron nanoparticles be used to clean up toxic waste?  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1627
Animal Smarts - Doggie IQ
"Will Fetch For Food!" How do dogs go about solving their everyday problems?  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1628
Mangroves - Shrimp Farms
A shrimp farm only lasts for five years. What happens after that?  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1629
Treating Brain Tumors - Without Surgery
A new procedure may well change the way that cancerous tumors are treated.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1630
Treating Brain Tumors - New Procedure
A new form of cancer treatment involves no drugs and practically no surgery.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1631
Soil - Planet Skin
Some soils have taken hundreds of thousands of years to form.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1632
Privacy - Managing Anonymity
An app can help you navigate the info highway incognito.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1633
Ecotoxicology
By studying how contaminants influence wildlife, we may be able to learn how they effect human reproductive processes.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1634
Soil - Organic Filter
Every drop of water we drink has gone through a piece of soil.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1635
Smartphones - Losing Your Way
Can you get there from here if you're not here?  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1636
Smartphones - Side Effects
Welcome to the Cellphone Sabbath.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1637
Privacy - Big Brother is a Corporation
It's convenience versus the loss of privacy, while someone - or something, is watching.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1638
Smartphones - Two Places at Once
The paradox of being physically present but psychologically absent.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1639
Smartphones - At What Price
Does the mere presence of a smartphone effect the quality of face-to-face conversations?  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1640
Drones - Software Package
Forest and watershed mapping and inventories, habitat assessments, post-processing of data; it's all in a day's work for a research drone.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1641
Drones - New Tool For Research
Drones are giving scientists unprecedented ways to gather data.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1642
Poison Ivy - Citizen Science
Here's a way that you can help track and control poison ivy.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1643
Finches - Tough Life, Smart Bird
For birds, a bit of competition with their peers early on turns out to be a good thing.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1644
Finches - Learning to Sing
It all comes down to the tutor.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1645
Finches - Sounds Just Like Dad
If you're wooing a female finch, you'd better sound like her father.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1646
Algorithm of Discovery - Defining What Isn't
Is it possible to better understand what something is, by knowing what it is not?  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1647
Antibiotics - Breaking Them Down
Antibiotics in cow manure? Composting can help degrade them before they end up in fertilizer.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1648
Antibiotics Underground
Farmers destroy the milk from cows treated with antibiotics. But the antibiotics could still impact the environment outside the farm.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1649
Antibiotics and Milk
What happens to the milk from cows who were given antibiotics?  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1650
Algorithm of Discovery - A New Way of Seeing th...
New drugs, new kinds of materials, new insights into the dynamics of ecosystems - all from reinventing the way we categorize things.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min