20 episodes

San Francisco Bay Area National Parks presents a collection on an array of environmentally-focused topics. Climate change and its affect on ecosystems and organisms is discussed frequently.

The Natural Laboratory National Park Service

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San Francisco Bay Area National Parks presents a collection on an array of environmentally-focused topics. Climate change and its affect on ecosystems and organisms is discussed frequently.

    Declining Fog in Coastal California

    Declining Fog in Coastal California

    Natural Laboratory: What is the role of fog along the California coast? How is the decline of fog affecting coast redwoods? Answers to these and similar questions are included in this audio file.

    • 5 min
    Searching for the Endangered Black Abalone in Northern California

    Searching for the Endangered Black Abalone in Northern California

    Natural Laboratory: Where have all the black abalone gone? How are scientists surveying the remaining population? Why are black abalones eating so much? Tune in for answers to these and related questions.

    • 4 min
    An Underground Answer to Greenhouse Gasses

    An Underground Answer to Greenhouse Gasses

    Natural Laboratory: Listen in to find out how soil is being restored to promote the growth of grass near Point Reyes National Seashore.

    • 5 min
    Birds on the Go: Climate Change and California's Feathered Friends

    Birds on the Go: Climate Change and California's Feathered Friends

    Natural Laboratory: This audio file discusses how climate change is affecting birds and other species of animals and plants in California.

    • 5 min
    Burning Ancient Life: The Geology of an Oil Reserve

    Burning Ancient Life: The Geology of an Oil Reserve

    Natural Laboratory: What exactly are you pumping into your car each week? What is the relationship between fossils that took hundreds of millions of years to form and the products you consume daily? Tune in for answers to these and other related questions.

    • 4 min
    Deep-Water Corals of Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary

    Deep-Water Corals of Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary

    Natural Laboratory: Tune in to find out how deep-water corals are beneficial to an array of different marine organisms and the factors that could harm the corals. Information is provided by experts at the Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary.

    • 4 min

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