Sesame Street's 41st Year

Bruce Robinson — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 06:00:00 +0100

Over the past 40 years, Sesame Street has transformed our expectations of what children’s television can and should be. And they’re still at it. {play}http://media.krcb.org/audio/nbr/9-28-10.mp3{/play}

Vanishing Soundscapes

Bruce Robinson — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:00:00 +0100

The sounds of the natural world are changing, and not for the better. Bernie Krause (left) has tapes that document that trend.

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Recording Nature in the Tetons

Bruce Robinson — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:00:00 +0100

You have to get up pretty early to capture the pure sounds of nature… and get a long way away from the rest of the noisy human race.

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Insecta-Palooza

Bruce Robinson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:00:00 +0100

What we don’t know about insects could—and just about does—fill an entire planet. But what we do know makes for an interesting event tomorrow on the Sonoma State University campus.

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Birds and Climate Change

Bruce Robinson — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:00:00 +0100

As climate change creates a hotter and drier California, our native birds will relocate to more hospitable areas, and existing communities of species will recombine in new ways that may threaten their survival.

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PRBO and their partners have developed interactive maps showing tRead More...

Laguna Foundation's New Home

Bruce Robinson — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:00:00 +0100

The Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation has a new home—one that’s almost 150 years old.

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Ken Churchill, who oversaw the restoration project, says they had to adhere to historical accuracy for the exterior, but inside was a different story.

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Sonoma County Wildlife Rescue

Bruce Robinson — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100

When native wildlife in the North Bay runs afoul of humankind, it’s almost always the animal that comes out second best. That’s when Sonoma County Wildlife Rescue steps in.

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Sunscreen

Bruce Robinson — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0100

Slathering on sunscreen may protect your skin, but it's not healthy for the world's water supplies, or the aquatic life within them.

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Herons

Bruce Robinson — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0100

There's no better time than now to observe young herons and egrets preparing to leave the nest, and few better places than Marin County's Bolinas Lagoon Preserve.

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Although they are large birds, herons and egrets are remarkably graceful, says Andy LaFrenz, an Audubon Canyon Ranch board member, which iRead More...

In Darwin's Footsteps

Bruce Robinson — Wed, 20 May 2009 03:00:00 +0100

The world has changed in many ways in the 150 years since Charles Darwin published "The Origin of Species." But much remains the same on the Galapagos Islands that inspired his famous theory. {mp3remote}http://media.krcb.org/audio/nbr/5-20-09.mp3{/mp3remote}

Using economic analysis as a tool for environmental protection is a core philosophy driving the Sebastopol-based Conservation Strategy Fund.

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Heritage Turkeys

Bruce Robinson — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:00:00 +0100

If turkey was served at the first Thanksgiving--which is historically doubtful--it might have been much like one of the organic heritage turkeys now being raised in a few places here in Sonoma County.

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There are about a dozen turkey species recognized asRead More...

Garden Allies

Bruce Robinson — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:00:00 +0100

No matter where you go, insects have people hugely outnumbered. But there are far more beneficial bugs than harmful ones.

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This is a close-up look at a snowy tree cricket. You can see if you Read More...

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