Eco Report

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:04 — 20.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOn today’s program, There is promising science about bats that may alleviate the deadly white nose syndrome. An oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico has been leaking oil for fifteen years. There are no more free-flowing rivers in the USA. In our Secret Life of Fungi …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:17 — 1.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWFHB’s Julianna Dailey discusses the Swamp Rabbit.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 9:39 — 6.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday, WFHB’s Norm Holy talks with world renowned fisheries scientist Dr. Daniel Pauly, about how over fishing and changing environmental conditions are impacting fish populations in North American waters. Dr. Pauly is with the Institute for Oceans and Fisheries at the University of British Columbia.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 10:00 — 22.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn today’s feature report, WFHB’s Norm Holy talks with Dr Deepak Ray about climate change and crop yields — both here in Indiana, and in developing nations. Dr Ray researches food security on both a local and global level as part of the University of Minnesota’s Global …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 27:07 — 20.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn today’s episode…Monroe County has received a $2 million Next Level Trail Grant from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources to expand the Karst Farm trail to Ellettsville. The City of Bloomington Utilities began installing “smart water” meters last week, allowing customers’ water meter readings to be …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:56 — 9.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this segment Kalynn Huffman Brower shares how to replace the scourge of polystyrene with myco-foam, the compostable alternative packing material made from mushrooms.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:45 — 2.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this segment Kalynn Huffman Brower explains how growing mushrooms can be targeted to clean up toxic waste in our land and our water in a process called myco-remediation. 

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:17 — 2.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreProducer Kalynn Huffman Brower introduces her series, The Secret Life of Fungi, by describing the root-like structure of mushrooms, and how the underground mycelium connects plants and trees in a vast network throughout our ecosystems.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 29.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe Bloomington Farmers Market saw record attendance last year, despite having fewer participating vendors; From 2015-2017, Indiana added 83,000 acres of cover crops; Climate change is a major concern for American voters, with nearly 40 percent reporting the issue will help determine how they cast their ballots …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 9:31 — 21.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFor five years, the Indiana Forest Alliance and volunteer researchers from across the country have been gathering data on species living in Indiana’s forests. In today’s feature report, WFHB Correspondent Norm Holy speaks with the IFA’s Executive Director Jeff Stant, who says they’re having trouble finding experts …