Episode 14: Hydroelectric Dams Kill Insects, Wreak Havoc with Food Webs
Hydropower dams generate more energy than all other renewable sources combined. However, they can also produce dire environmental consequences, including the devastation of aquatic insect populations ...
13 Heinä 201630min
Gene Drive Technology: Where is the Future? (Bonus Episode)
Gene drives have the potential to revolutionize approaches to major public health, conservation, and agricultural problems. For instance, gene drives might one day prevent mosquitoes from spreading a ...
29 Kesä 201632min
Episode #13: Landscape Ecology and its Role in Policymaking
The world faces unprecedented environmental transformation. Successfully managing and adapting to a rapidly changing Earth requires the swift action of well-informed policymakers. In a State of the Sc...
8 Kesä 201628min
Episode #12: Current Methods Cannot Predict Damage to Coral Reefs
The potentially devastating effects of ocean acidification on coral reefs are well known, but the methods used to evaluate the threats are often focused on individual species, viewed in isolation, and...
11 Touko 201626min
Episode #11: How to Save Aggregate-Spawning Fish
Globally declining fish populations are a frequently cited ecological and commercial calamity, but relatively little attention has been paid to the specific threats faced by fish that gather and spawn...
13 Huhti 201623min
Episode #10: Nitrogen's Threat to Biodiversity
Habitat destruction and the direct exploitation of species often occupy center stage in discussions of biodiversity perils. However, indirect harms, such as that posed by nitrogen pollution, remain un...
9 Maalis 201619min
Episode #9: Plague-Afflicted Prairie Dogs and Modeling Animal-Borne Disease
Animal-borne diseases have ruled the news cycle recently—from Zika and Ebola to SARS and MERS. However, little is known about the spread of these diseases in their animal hosts. More perplexing, the m...
10 Helmi 201619min
Episode #8: Preventing Midwest Grain Failures
Across the United States, record quantities of corn and soybeans have been harvested in recent years. However, according Dr. David Gustafson of the International Life Sciences Institute Research Found...
13 Tammi 201622min
