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From a leader in environmental science, a podcast covering topics ranging from climate change and global warming to sustainable living.
Episódios
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EcoPicks | Rock salt everlasting
08/02/2018 Duração: 02minRock Salt lowers the temperature at which water freezes, so it's been widely used in wintertime to prevent our roads from icing up. It's a boon for safety but there are environmental consequences.
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EcoPicks | From the road to the well
08/02/2018 Duração: 02minIn the winter, rock salt is routinely spread on our roads to keep them free of ice. We now know that the rock salt can enter into our soil, groundwater, rivers and streams and can stay there year-round, effecting the ecosystem and people.
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EcoPicks | Pickling the waters
08/02/2018 Duração: 02minThe effects of rock salt on streams are most dramatic in streams in urban areas. These would be streams in proximity to roads The roads would receive a lot of rock salt and eventually as that dissolves, it moves on into the streams.
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EcoPicks | Mapping risk
06/06/2017 Duração: 02minThe International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is the global authority for determining species' vulnerability in the face of threats such as habitat loss and climate change. How widely a species can be found – its geographic range – is a key indicator used by the IUCN to assign an appropriate conservation status.
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EcoPicks | Predicting disease: Which animal? Which country?
28/02/2017 Duração: 02minWhy is it that diseases emerge from some species and not from others? Is it possible to predict outbreaks of infectious diseases before they occur?
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EcoPicks | Drugs in our waters: Solutions
28/02/2017 Duração: 02minA wide range of drugs - everything from antibiotics to antihistamines, are showing in our rivers, streams and water supply and it is having an impact on our environment. What can we do about it?
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EcoPicks | Lyme disease: The Tick Project
03/01/2017 Duração: 02minAccording to the Center for Disease Control, there are over 300,000 new cases of Lyme Disease each year in the United States. Is there a way to control its spread?
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EcoPicks | Lyme disease & acorns
21/12/2016 Duração: 02minThe summer following a good mouse year, which is two summers following a good acorn year, we have found are the riskiest years for human exposure to Lyme.
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EcoPicks | Big data + technology = improved global health
21/06/2016 Duração: 02minScientists are calling for the creation of a global early warning system for infectious diseases. Such a system would use computer models to tap into environmental, epidemiological, and molecular data – gathering the intelligence needed to forecast where disease risk is high.
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EcoPicks | Social and ecological underpinnings of infectious disease
02/06/2016 Duração: 02minWhen it comes to addressing infectious disease, we have a short attention span. In the case of Zika, the World Health Organization declared a public health emergency based on a strong association between Zika infection and microcephaly in newborns.
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EcoPicks | Tiny forest pests cause big problems
02/06/2016 Duração: 02minEach year, more than 25 million shipping containers enter the U.S. All too often, highly destructive forest pests are lurking among their imported goods. Wood boring insects arrive as stowaways in wood packaging, such as pallets and crates.
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EcoPicks | Beavers: nature’s nitrogen busters
08/12/2015 Duração: 05minBeavers are one of nature's most industrious engineers. Using branches and mud, the intrepid animals create dams that slow moving water. In New York's Hudson Valley, their constructions are a common sight on streams and in wetlands.
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EcoPicks | Beavers: nature’s nitrogen busters
08/12/2015 Duração: 02minBeavers are one of nature's most industrious engineers. Using branches and mud, the intrepid animals create dams that slow moving water. In New York's Hudson Valley, their constructions are a common sight on streams and in wetlands.
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EcoPicks | Biodiversity is good for us
26/08/2015 Duração: 02minThere are many reasons to protect Earth's biodiversity. One of the more underrated is that disease incidence is lower when ecosystems support a variety of plants and animals.
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EcoPicks | Trade and trees
24/06/2015 Duração: 02minDebate about the Trans-Pacific Partnership overlooks an unintended consequence of increased trade with Asia – the assault on America's trees.
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EcoPicks | The case for messy woodlands
24/06/2015 Duração: 02minDoes your property contain a patch of forest? When managing your woodland, resist the urge to keep things tidy. Dead and dying trees are a healthy part of forest ecosystems.
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EcoPicks | Leaky pipes and polluted waters
22/06/2015 Duração: 02minMost of us don't spend a lot of time thinking about our wastewater. We want our toilets to flush and our dirty wash water to go down the drain. We assume this water is efficiently routed to a treatment facility, where it is cleaned up and returned to the environment. But reality doesn't measure up to our expectations.
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EcoPicks | Leaky pipes and polluted waters
22/06/2015 Duração: 02minMost of us don't spend a lot of time thinking about our wastewater. We want our toilets to flush and our dirty wash water to go down the drain. We assume this water is efficiently routed to a treatment facility, where it is cleaned up and returned to the environment. But reality doesn't measure up to our expectations.
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EcoPicks | Time to move Lyme Disease Awareness Month to April?
04/05/2015 Duração: 02minAccording to Rick Ostfeld, a disease ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, if we want to get a leg up on tick-borne illness we need to become vigilant earlier in the season.
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EcoPicks | Algorithms and ecology: A new partnership
29/01/2015 Duração: 02minIf you shop online, this is a familiar scenario: You click on a product like a book, and the online merchant presents you with a list of related items. "If you like X, you might also like Y."