Month: June 2013
Pulse of the Planet Daily Audio
Science Diary: Okefenokee – Sandhill Monogamy
Young Sandhill Cranes are all for group dates, but when it’s time to get serious, these giant birds commit to one partner.
June 27, 2013Medicinal Weeds – Bioactive
Farmers and gardeners have been fighting weeds since time immemorial. Now it may time for the weeds to fight for us.
June 26, 2013Medicinal Weeds – Overlooked Resource
Common pokeweed is being studied as a potential remedy for HIV.
June 25, 2013Medicinal Weeds – Living Pharmacy
It’s the world largest pharmacy and it may be no further than your back yard.
June 24, 2013Earth’s Magnetic Field
The earth’s magnetic field is weakening and the poles are changing locating and – every 780,000 years or so, flipping!
June 21, 2013Medicinal Weeds – In Praise Of
You’d be surprised to learn how many medicinal plants are considered to be “weeds”.
June 20, 2013Ospreys: Raising a Family
For a special pair of ospreys, “Virginia Is For Lovers”.
June 19, 2013Science Diary: Acoustical Ecology – Loons
Development and disturbance can silence the beautiful call of the common loon.
June 18, 2013Science Diary: Long Leaf Pine – RCW
Restoration of the Long Leaf Pine ecosystem at Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge is central to the survival of an endangered woodpecker.
June 17, 2013Solar Warming
Life on earth has a billion year window until things heat up quite a bit.
June 14, 2013Science Diary: Long Leaf Pine – Restoring
Forestry experts at the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge are working to restore Long Leaf Pine, a species that once ranged from Virginia to Texas.
June 13, 2013Science Diary: Okefenokee – Peat
Think of a swamp, and you might picture mud and muck. But Okefenokee rests on a spongy foundation of peat.
June 12, 2013Natchez – Oral History
The Principal Chief of the Natchez offers a unique perspective of his people’s cultural heritage.
June 11, 2013Science Diaries: Okefenokee – Living Landscape
Cycles of growth and wildfires keep Okefenokee swamp in an eternal state of flux.
June 10, 2013Terraforming
It may work on Star Trek, but in real life Mar’s thin atmosphere will be writing the script.
June 7, 2013Science Diaries: Okefenokee – Standing Up to Bears
What hisses at bears to defend its nest eggs? Hint: it’s bigger than a robin.
June 6, 201317 Year Cicadas: Call
Is that the sound of an airplane? An alien spaceship? The calls of the cicadas are impressive.
June 5, 201317 Year Cicadas: Mating
With cicadas, it’s how you sound that matters to the females.
June 4, 201317 Year Cicadas: Emerge
How do billions of cicada nymphs know how to emerge simultaneously?
June 3, 2013Infinite Universe
According to recent findings, the universe is flat and infinite. and the “Big Bang” may not have been all that big.