Podcast #53: US power plants, Farm in a box + Great Barrier Reef

This podcast includes the following stories:

1. US Environmental Protection Agency's bid to curb emissions from power plants
2. Inventor in Kenya wants everyone to become farmers
3. My web picks
4. UNESCO and Leonardo DiCaprio warn Australia over Great Barrier Reef

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The Smallest Farm in the World
Satao - A Legend (Mark Deeble)
Armadillo of the World cup (BBC - Science in Action)

Podcast #50: What Warsaw achieved, chilling effect of the Arctic 30 arrests + the most anti-environment ad ever?

This podcast includes the following stories:

1. Typhoon Haiyan fails to whip up a frenzy of action in Warsaw
2. My top environmental web picks
3. Could the Arctic 30 arrests have a chilling effect on direct action?
4. Marine reserves in the Antarctic stymied
5. Is this the most anti-environment ad ever?

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Dispatch from Kiribati (Business Week)
Surveying deforestation since 2000 (Google/USGS/University of Maryland/Living on Earth)

90 emitters responsible for climate change (Guardian)

Podcast #49: Peru's dolphin cull, making airlines pay for emissions + trees that point to gold

This podcast includes the following stories:

1. World's 'largest illegal dolphin slaughter'
2. Battle for control of airline emissions
3. My top environmental web picks
4. Banning damaging PIB dumping at sea
5. Australian bushfires: No climate change link, says PM
6. Trees that point to gold

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Undercover dolphin slaughter footage (Jim Wickens/Mundo Azul/ITV News)

Jim Wickens' account of being shipwrecked

CSI Landfill (BBC Costing the Earth)

Podcast #48: Global reaction to the IPCC report, the latest on detained Greenpeace activists + turbine rock

This podcast includes the following stories:

1. Reaction around the world to the IPCC's fifth climate report
2. My top environmental web picks
3. Latest on 30 Greenpeace activists detained in Russia
4. Using goats at green mowers
5. The great gig in the sky (actually on a wind turbine)

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Crowdsourcing climate data from smart phones (BBC Inside Science)
Interactive: How hot will it get in your lifetime? (Guardian)
Bill McKibben on his latest book (PRI Living On Earth)

Episode #44: The battle to stop ivory poaching, Fish fraud in the US + The electric Grand Prix

This podcast includes the following stories:

1. Efforts to stop the deepening crisis over ivory poaching
2. Fish fraud: A third of US products mislabelled
3. More than 7,500 dead pigs found in Chinese river
4. Keystone XL passes environmental impact report
5. Mars Rover finds evidence that life could have existed
6. 2012 saw second steepest CO2 rise since records began
7. President Obama appoints environment champions
8. Should weather forecasters talk about climate change
9. Formula One to go electric 

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Podcast #43: Europe's horse meat scandal, The sound of glaciers + An Australian species back from the dead?

This podcast includes the following stories:

1. Europe's horse meat scandal
2. EU ministers vote for a phased ban on fish discards
3. EU plans boost to cap and trade scheme by withholding new permits
4. Global Ocean Commission formed to look at threats to the High Seas
5. Chinese businessman offers reward for river dip
6. The sound of glaciers melting
7. Museum find raises hopes for 'extinct' Australian oddity

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