Episodios

  • Restoring Our Coast with Karina Johnston

    Restoring Our Coast with Karina Johnston
    Jun 25 2025
    On today’s Conservation Conversations episode we talk with Karina Johnston, a PHD candidate at UCSB, a coastal habitat restoration ecologist formerly with Tidal Influence, and the newly appointed executive director of Heal the Ocean, a southern California nonprofit. She has so much experience and a wealth of knowledge to share, so let’s get straight to it with Karina as part of our series on coastal resiliency! Thank you again to Karina for taking the time to talk with us. It’s the work like what she does that can give us all hope for the future of the CA coastline. Please check out the Tidal Influence or Heal the Ocean website and get involved with them, or wherever you can. http://www.tidalinfluence.com/ https://www.healtheocean.org/ Host and producer is Austin Parker Music was provided by A Picture Book studio Don't forget to like comment and subscribe if you want to help!
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  • NEWS June 15 2025

    NEWS June 15 2025
    Jun 15 2025
    Land California’s largest ‘land-back’ deal returns 47,000 acres to tribe https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/06/05/3094125/0/en/Largest-Ever-Land-Back-Conservation-Deal-in-Calif-Now-Complete-Western-Rivers-Conservancy-Conveys-Final-Acreage-to-Yurok-Tribe-in-a-47-000-Acre-Effort-Critical-to-the-Salmon-Wildli.html Newly-declared conservation area in Peru is home to pink dolphins, giant armadillos https://phys.org/news/2025-06-newly-declared-area-peru-home.html Biodiversity Three new wolf packs discovered in Northern California https://phys.org/news/2025-05-wolf-northern-california.html Western quolls and brushtail possums thrive in Australian national park a decade after reintroduction https://www.animalsaroundtheglobe.com/western-quolls-and-brushtail-possums-thrive-a-decade-after-reintroduction-to-national-park-1-335680/ Endangered snow leopard cub born at Kent big cat sanctuary https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjwqy3q4zeno
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  • NEWS June 1 2025

    NEWS June 1 2025
    Jun 1 2025
    Rewilding Experts celebrate as rare parrot makes miraculous comeback from brink of extinction: 'They're already ready to fly' https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/red-tailed-amazon-parrots-brazil/ 2025 Lion census shows 32% population rise https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/out-of-the-woods-in-gujarat-why-asiatic-lions-future-cant-be-secured-by-numbers-alone-10022963/ Spectacular creature makes stunning comeback after decades of absence https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/bearded-vulture-chick-spain-conservation/
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    7 m
  • NEWS May 15 2025

    NEWS May 15 2025
    May 15 2025
    Water City of Phoenix encouraging residents to harvest rainwater this summer https://www.abc15.com/weather/impact-earth/city-of-phoenix-encouraging-residents-to-harvest-rainwater-this-summer How California’s farmers can recharge the aquifers they’ve drained https://grist.org/food-and-agriculture/california-groundwater-study-central-valley-drought-managed-aquifer-recharge/ Drawdown This Solar-Powered Device Sucks CO2 From the Air—and Turns It Into Fuel https://gizmodo.com/this-solar-powered-reactor-sucks-co2-from-the-air-and-turns-it-into-fuel-2000563558 Genetically enhanced crops proposed as scalable solution for CO₂ removal https://phys.org/news/2025-05-genetically-crops-scalable-solution.html Marine IUCN launches project to combat marine plastic pollution in the Pacific https://iucn.org/news/202504/iucn-launches-project-combat-marine-plastic-pollution-pacific Indonesia plans 200000 hectares of new marine conservation areas in 2025 https://en.antaranews.com/news/354329/indonesia-targets-200-thousand-hectares-marine-conservation-growth Rewilding Captive-Bred Axolotls Can Survive in the Wild, Sparking Hope for the Endangered Species https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/captive-bred-axolotls-can-survive-in-the-wild-offering-hope-for-the-critically-endangered-amphibians-180986543/ Study suggests there are more jaguars in the Amazon than previously thought https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/study-suggests-there-are-more-jaguars-in-the-amazon-than-previously-thought/
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    10 m
  • NEWS May 1 2025

    NEWS May 1 2025
    May 1 2025
    Drawdown Small coal town shocks experts by building first-of-its-kind plant: 'The cultural aspect of this is so bedeviling' https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/delta-utah-hydrogen-power-plant-transformation-community/ Biodiversity Mystical eagle thought to be extinct in Mexico reappears in Chiapas https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/believed-extinct-mexico-harpy-eagle-resurfaces-chiapas/ Endangered sea turtle populations show signs of recovery in more than half the world, survey finds https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/endangered-sea-turtle-populations-show-signs-recovery-half-world-surve-rcna201788 Critically endangered plant species once thought extinct makes extraordinary return to the wild: 'We hope to inspire greater awareness and action' https://www.yahoo.com/news/critically-endangered-species-once-thought-111518884.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZWNvc2lhLm9yZy8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJ9vDCng51YwZcXjcpTcnXqTlRspKJmevErxGOdhj0OeF0LzjfAqCdf5rlehlNuCRdCeFghJ9cNnF6wEwO2XjTW0YcHdDGnQiSCu7sJ8dD4rKwXUFU5nZVmnLl3GVMwx53qu41GCSYAMTsV_zOYxEi0xyXmaMYtR_sblS6uhUAe6
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    9 m
  • NEWS April 15 2025

    NEWS April 15 2025
    Apr 15 2025
    New plastic dissolves in the ocean overnight, leaving no microplastics https://newatlas.com/materials/plastic-dissolves-ocean-overnight-no-microplastics/ California's first solar-over-canal project now generating electricity https://abc30.com/post/californias-first-solar-canal-project-now-generating-electricity/16120467/ A biotech company says it has bred three pups with traits of the extinct dire wolf https://www.npr.org/2025/04/08/nx-s1-5355686/dire-wolf-extinct-colossal-biosciences
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  • NEWS April 1 2025

    NEWS April 1 2025
    Mar 24 2025
    Rewilding Bighorn sheep reintroduced to Franklin Mountains in major conservation effort https://www.ktsm.com/news/bighorn-sheep-reintroduced-to-franklin-mountains-in-major-conservation-effort/ Drawdown World's First Carbon Capture Plant Powered Directly by Wind Planned https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/worlds-first-carbon-capture-plant-powered-directly-by-wind-planned/ Al Gore’s Just Climate fund raises $175M from Microsoft and CalSTRS for nature-based climate investments https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/18/al-gores-just-climate-fund-raises-175m-from-microsoft-and-calstrs-for-nature-based-climate-investments/
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  • NEWS March 15 2025

    NEWS March 15 2025
    Mar 13 2025
    Biodiversity Historic beaver release marks conservation milestone in England https://beavertrust.org/historic-first-official-wild-beaver-release-in-england/ Solar farms can host up to three times as many birds as crop fields https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2l049zkvezo UN biodiversity talks officially concluded on Feb. 28, with countries agreeing on a strategy to increase finance for biodiversity to $200 billion annually by 2030 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/un-biodiversity-talks-end-with-nations-backing-200-billion-per-year-plan-to-protect-nature Innovation Scientists Create Water-Harvesting Technology That Uses Kitchen Scraps and Seashells https://decrypt.co/308348/scientists-clean-water-harvesting-technology Earth’s 1st Asteroid Mining Prospector Heads to the Launchpad https://dnyuz.com/2025/02/23/earths-1st-asteroid-mining-prospector-heads-to-the-launchpad/
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