Australia Fires, Great Lakes Book Club. Jan 10, 2020, Part 1
How Climate Change Is Fanning Australia’s Flames All eyes have been on Australia in recent weeks as the country’s annual summer fire season has spun out of control with devastating damage to endanger...
10 Jan 202046min
Geoengineering Climate Change, Tasmanian Tiger, New Water Plan. Jan 3, 2020, Part 1
In the context of climate change, geoengineering refers to deliberate, large-scale manipulations of the planet to slow the effects of human-induced global warming—whether by removing carbon from the a...
3 Jan 202046min
Christmas Bird Count. Jan 3, 2020, Part 2
For many, the new year means looking back on the past accomplishments and checking off your goals. For birders, it means tallying up your species list and recording all the birds you’ve spotted in the...
3 Jan 202047min
2019 Year In Review. Dec 27 2019, Part 1
In 2019 we experienced some painful and heartbreaking moments—like the burning of the Amazon rainforest, a worldwide resurgence of measles cases, and the first ever deaths linked to vaping. Ira talks...
27 Dec 201948min
Looking Back at the Pale Blue Dot. Dec 27, 2019, Part 2
Few people could put the cosmos in perspective better than astronomer Carl Sagan. And that’s why we’re taking this opportunity to take another listen to this classic conversation with Sagan, recorded ...
27 Dec 201947min
Emerging Technologies, Pokémon In The Brain, Colds And Flu. Dec 20, 2019, Part 1
Back when Science Friday began in 1991, the Internet, as we know it, didn’t even exist. While ARPA-NET existed and the first web pages began to come online, social media, online shopping, streaming vi...
20 Dec 201946min
Space Junk, Chronobiology, Mistletoe. Dec 20, 2019, Part 2
As more commercial companies are getting into the satellite launching game, space is becoming a crowded place and all of these objects are creating space debris. Right now, there are approximately 2,0...
20 Dec 201946min
Degrees of Change: Transportation. December 13, 2019, Part 1
Transportation—whether it be your car, aircraft, cargo ships, or the heavy trucks carrying all those holiday packages—makes a big contribution to the world’s CO2 emissions. In the U.S., the transporta...
13 Dec 201947min
