Pulse of the Planet Podcast with Jim Metzner | Science | Nature | Environment | Technology show

Pulse of the Planet Podcast with Jim Metzner | Science | Nature | Environment | Technology

Summary: Each weekday, Pulse of the Planet provides its listeners with a two-minute sound portrait of Planet Earth, tracking the rhythms of nature, culture and science worldwide and blending interviews and extraordinary natural sound.

Podcasts:

 Finding Meteorites | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:02:00

They come in all shapes and sizes, but what are the chances of actually finding a meteorite?  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 Blood Meal | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:02:00

The surprising truth about why mosquitoes need your blood.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 Controlling Zika - Transgenic Mosquitos | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:02:00

Making male mosquitos with the "Nix Gene".  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 Refuge | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:02:00

Great Gull Island is one of the few remaining places where terns can nest and raise their young in safety.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 A Feast for Voles | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:02:00

What to do when an island bird refuge gets overgrown with plants?  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 Elephants and Orvilles | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:02:00

Who says elephants can't fly?  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 Sealing our Fate, Just Like Birds | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:02:00

An elaborate Indonesian death ritual takes its cues from the mating habits of the Hornbill bird.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 Hornbills and Humans | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:02:00

Sometimes animals remind us we have more in common with them than we think.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 Mushroom Hunting - Morels | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:02:00

On the trail of the world's most sought-after mushroom.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 Mushroom Hunting - Unseen World | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:02:00

In any forest, there's a complex interdependent web of life underground.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 Mushroom Hunting - What Lies Beneath | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:02:00

A mushroom is the visible part of a much larger organism.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 Bears at McNeil River- An Essential Meal | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:02:00

Bears at Alaska's McNeil River have come to rely on an annual fish feast.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 Bears at McNeil River | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:02:00

Over a hundred brown bears in Alaska have learned that every July, the McNeil River is THE place to catch fish.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 Black Skimmers | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:02:00

This summer, an endangered seabird will find one of its last remaining safe havens on the salt marshes off the coast of New Jersey.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 Parallax View | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:02:00

Fledgling seabirds must the trick of catching fish beneath the surface of the water.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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