Saturday, January 7, 2012
Living Planet: Locking out elephants
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Podcast Episode Summary
We visit a reserve in Sri Lanka where they're locking the elephants out and keeping the humans in; we chat with a researcher about her team's new paper in Science on predicting ocean circulation and its climate impacts; and we hear from fair trades in South Africa and Costa Rica.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items.Human reserves sooth Sri Lanka's strife with elephantsInstead of locking nature into reserves, Sri Lankans are experimenting with locking in the humans.For the past two years, Sri Lanka has been trying to recover from nearly three decades of civil war. Though the insurgency that divided the South Asian country is over, another conflict remains. It's one that's been quietly killing for decades: a war for land that has pitted humans against elephants.
Report: Yasmeen Qureshi, Lily Jamali, Sri Lanka Predicting ocean circulation and its impacts on climateWhile the movie The Day After Tomorrow was highly dramatized, there is a lot of genuine scientific interest in just how much ocean circulation affects climate.This week in Science magazine, a team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg published a study that claimed a big step forward in efforts to predict ocean circulation. We spoke to the lead author.
Interview: Daniela Matei / Nathan WitkopFairer wine and pineapplesFarm goods from developing countries sold with the Fair Trade label may be a little bit more expensive, but the people who grow or harvest them get a better deal.In co-operations with regional broadcasters, we hear from two parts of the word that are trying to put the fair trade idea into practice. First: Fairer wine from South Africa, then fairer pineapples from Costa Rica.
Reports: co-productions voiced by Holly Fox and Andreas Illmer
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