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.
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.
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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.