Eco Report

For this week’s feature, Eco Report producer Jan Walker interviews Alfio Saitta, Weatherization Program Manager for South Central Community Action Program.

In this week’s segment of “Secret Life of Fungi,” WFHB’s Kaylnn Huffman Brower discusses mushrooms in space.

In this week’s IN Nature WFHB’s Julianna Dailey discusses the Ruffed Grouse.

In today’s feature report, Bassler tells WFHB he has previously sponsored legislation aimed at preserving ten to thirty percent of state forests from logging. With much of his district including areas of state forest, Bassler says Senate Bill six-ten is a different approach to his previous conservation bills, which didn’t make it out of the state’s Natural Resources Commission. 

In this week’s radio rundown of ecological news WFHB’s Don Geyra and Tod Wicks report on the anticipation of a chronic wasting disease that affects deer, elk, and moose migrating to Indiana, the world government and corporate leaders meeting in Davos, Switzerland, the week of January 21, for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting and last year being the fourth-warmest for …

In this segment Kalynn Huffman Brower explores mushrooms in space, following the success of fungi spores hitching interstellar rides on meteors, as well as traveling into orbit on the skin of human astronauts.

WFHB’s Norm Holy talks with Eileen Kladivko, professor of agronomy at Purdue University, about the role of cover crops in soil conservation.

The bobolink is an endangered North American songbird. In this week’s IN Nature, WFHB’s Julianna Dailey gives us a snapshot of the bobolink and explains its decline.

In this week’s segment of “The Secret Life of Fungi” WFHB’s  Kalynn Huffman Brower discusses Myco Remediation. 

In this week’s eco feature WFHB’s Norm Holy interviews Robert Colangelo, the founding farmer of Green Sense Farms in Portage Indiana.