Podcast Episodes

Europa Clipper

image from NASA/JPL-Caltech

Today’s show features NASA’s Europa Clipper mission, which launched on October 14th, 2024 on a Falcon Heavy rocket, setti…

1 year, 6 months ago

COP16 Biodiversity Conference

COP16: Hope & Hurdles (start time: 1:20)  On this week’s show, host Susan Moran interviews two conservation biologists at Colorado State University —…

1 year, 6 months ago

Wildfire Mushrooms for Wildfire Mitigation

WIldfire Mushroom c Coldfire Project

Wild, local mushrooms can break down deadwood into healthy soil, and they can do this surprisingly fast.  Used …

1 year, 6 months ago

CU Boulder Nobel Prize Winner Tom Cech & “The Catalyst”

Nobel Laureate and CU Boulder researcher Tom Cech. (Photo by Glenn Asakawa/University of Colorado)

CU Boulder Nobel Prize Winner Tom Cech discusses h…

1 year, 6 months ago

Emotions, Beliefs, Politics

Image credit: Brown University

Beliefs, Perceptions, Decision-making (start time: 4:37)  For many people if feels like our society, and our beliefs, …

1 year, 7 months ago

Eight-Legged Wonders: The Surprising Lives of Spiders

Boulder Colorado Nature Hikes

Local Science/Nature Calendar (starts 1:00)  We share news about the Marshall Mesa Trailhead Closure to eliminate burni…

1 year, 7 months ago

The Carbon Footprint of Food

The Blue Plate in a Red-hot World (start time: 7:46) While adding cream to your morning cup of coffee, or digesting the hamburger that you grilled la…

1 year, 7 months ago

Hoofbeats – Horses & Human History//Colorado Wolf Family ReCaptured

Colorado Parks & Wildlife Wolf Release

Wolf Family Recaptured  (Starts 1:40)    Colorado Parks & Wildlife did not reply to our request for an update …

1 year, 7 months ago

Colorado Wolves Recapture – Marc Bekoff Extended Interview

This is an extended interview with CU Boulder Wildlife Expert Marc Bekoff about challenges and possibilities with Colorado Wolf Reintroduction.  For …

1 year, 7 months ago

The Emotional Lives of Animals

In this week’s show Beth spoke with Marc Bekoff, well known and loved for his decades of research into animal behavior, emotion and cognition, about …

1 year, 7 months ago