By Nathaniel Weinzapfel Introduction: First held in 1970 and recently reaching its 50th year anniversary, Earth Day is an annual holiday held to demonstrate support for environmental protection and celebrate life on our planet, with over a billion people participating in related events worldwide. This holiday has been extended to encompass all of April, in what has been aptly named …
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Your environmental headlines: Every year over one hundred climate scientists fly far into the wilderness and bore deep into Greenland’s largest glacier. Their work is complicated and important. The project is trying to understand how ice streams underneath the glacier are pushing vast amounts of ice into the ocean and how this contributes to rising sea levels. But this year …
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On 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 segment, WFHB’s Kalynn Huffman Brower explores the past present and future of fungi …
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Today, 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.
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The Cerulean Warbler is a small songbird with a severely declining population. They can be found in Indiana. Find out more about these birds in this episode of IN Nature, produced by Eco-Report’s Julianna Dailey.
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