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
1701
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
1702
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
1703
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
1704
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
1705
Finches - Learning to Sing
It all comes down to the tutor.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1706
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
1707
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
1708
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
1709
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
1710
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
1711
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
1712
Algorithm of Discovery - New Ideas From Computers
HAL can open the pod door, but can he come come with a new concept?  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1713
Privacy - Are We Giving it Away?
Every day, we're unknowingly gifting our personal information to corporations and service organizations.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1714
Hellbender - Bad Name, Good Sign
Though saddled with a dicey moniker, they're indicators of a healthy water ecosystem.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1715
Hellbender - King Salamander
North America's largest salamander can reach a length of two feet and weigh up to five pounds.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1716
Biological Invaders - Salvinia
Moving a species to a foreign environment may ultimately require importing another species to control the first.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1717
Biological Invaders - Ecology
Humans are largely responsible for the demise of the biological immunity of ecosystems.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1718
Biological Invaders - Adaptation
Disparate species are being unnaturally relocated without the benefit of time for adaptation.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1719
Water - Downstream From Mines
When you're downstream from a coal mine, you want to know what's happening upstream.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1720
Water - Security
In America we use four or five hundred liters of water per day per person, an amount far in excess of what's needed to actually survive.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1721
Water - Grey Water
Just because water isn't drinkable, doesn't mean it's not usable.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1722
Water - Using it Up
In many agricultural areas, we're draining water faster than it's being replenished.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1723
Water - Essential Resource
It's the one resource that's irreplaceable.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1724
Quats - Multiple Uses
Approximately 4000 new substances are registered each day and not all of these can be thoroughly tested before they are used in consumer products.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1725
Quats - Effects on Humans
A widely used category of chemical substances is coming under scrutiny for possibly having harmful side-effects.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min