Undercurrents | 1.30.24 - Saving Bats, Plants Having Less Sex, How Tardigrades Survive, and an Incredibly Hot Planet
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01/30/24 • 62 min
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Undercurrents is a podcast series from Nerdy About Nature where we discuss recent studies, reports and news from the world of environment, ecology and climate which all impact our understanding of the world and the way we relate to it. In other words, it’s all the unseen things that happen without much notice that impact the direction or flow of our society and the world we all share.
This episodes topics:
Saving Bats -
https://thenarwhal.ca/endangered-bats-fake-old-growth-trees/
Plants Evolving to have Less Sex -
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19422
How Moss Piglets survive -
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0295062
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2412569-we-finally-know-how-tardigrades-can-survive-extreme-conditions/
https://climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-2023-hottest-year-record
Produced by Ross Reid
Hosted by Ross Reid & Julia Huggins
Nerdy About Nature is a passion project whose primary goal is to provide free access for all to education about this world so that people can enjoy it more, build connection and fall in love with it, and ultimately work in ways to steward it for future generations to enjoy. We do this through short and long form videos all over social media @NerdyAboutNature, as well as this podcast you’re listening to now, and it’s all made possible thanks to support from folks like yourself. If you’re enjoying the content we’re creating, you can help keep it going by supporting us at patreon.com/nerdyaboutnature, or at nerdyaboutnature.com.
Natures pretty neat, ya know - let’s keep it that way!
Undercurrents is a podcast series from Nerdy About Nature where we discuss recent studies, reports and news from the world of environment, ecology and climate which all impact our understanding of the world and the way we relate to it. In other words, it’s all the unseen things that happen without much notice that impact the direction or flow of our society and the world we all share.
This episodes topics:
Saving Bats -
https://thenarwhal.ca/endangered-bats-fake-old-growth-trees/
Plants Evolving to have Less Sex -
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19422
How Moss Piglets survive -
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0295062
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2412569-we-finally-know-how-tardigrades-can-survive-extreme-conditions/
https://climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-2023-hottest-year-record
Produced by Ross Reid
Hosted by Ross Reid & Julia Huggins
Nerdy About Nature is a passion project whose primary goal is to provide free access for all to education about this world so that people can enjoy it more, build connection and fall in love with it, and ultimately work in ways to steward it for future generations to enjoy. We do this through short and long form videos all over social media @NerdyAboutNature, as well as this podcast you’re listening to now, and it’s all made possible thanks to support from folks like yourself. If you’re enjoying the content we’re creating, you can help keep it going by supporting us at patreon.com/nerdyaboutnature, or at nerdyaboutnature.com.
Natures pretty neat, ya know - let’s keep it that way!
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Undercurrents | 1.18.24 - Antarctic heatwaves, deep sea mining, dying matriarchs, and forest restoration, destruction and fire resilience.
Undercurrents is a podcast series from Nerdy About Nature where we discuss recent studies, reports and news from the world of environment, ecology and climate which all impact our understanding of the world and the way we relate to it. In other words, it’s all the unseen things that happen without much notice that impact the direction or flow of our society and the world we all share.
This episodes topics:
Norway Seabed Exploration:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00088-7
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605320000277
Forest Restoration in WA:
https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/csp2.13004
Orca Matriarch Death:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-biggs-killer-whale-wake-presumed-dead-1.7074033
Citzen Science for Whale ID: https://happywhale.com/
Lack of Oldgrowth in ON & QC affecting Caribou: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/1/6
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/world/canada/canada-boreal-forest-logging.html
Lack of Oldgrowth left in QC:
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/01/10/news/push-protect-rare-old-growth-forests
Antarctic Heatwave and Atmospheric River:
https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/clim/37/3/JCLI-D-23-0175.1.xml
Forest Fire Resilience in CA:
Produced by Ross Reid
Hosted by Ross Reid & Julia Huggins
Nerdy About Nature is a passion project whose primary goal is to provide free access for all to education about this world so that people can enjoy it more, build connection and fall in love with it, and ultimately work in ways to steward it for future generations to enjoy. We do this through short and long form videos all over social media @NerdyAboutNature, as well as this podcast you’re listening to now, and it’s all made possible thanks to support from folks like yourself. If you’re enjoying the content we’re creating, you can help keep it going by supporting us at patreon.com/nerdyaboutnature, or at nerdyaboutnature.com.
Natures pretty neat, ya know - let’s keep it that way!
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Podchat 23 | Geomorphology of the Cascadian Bioregion w/ Pierre Friele - IE, how our land was formed
Do you ever stop to think about the dirt under your feet, or in this case the rock, and wonder how it got there? Well the answer is...complicated, but basically billions of years of intense geological and mechanical processes from erosion to volcanism and everything in between.
In this episode, I sit down with Pierre Freile, an award-winning geoscientist based in Squamish BC to chat all about how the landscape of North America and the Cascadian Bioregion in particular were formed, from the macro-scale actions of continents moving and colliding with one another, to the localized impacts of landslides that took place thousands of years ago, and rockfalls in our neighbourhoods just a few years ago.
This one may be a doozy of an information blast, but I promise you it's worth it, and it will give you a profound appreciation for the lands on which we live, and the forces that shaped them into what they are. Buckle up tight and hang on for the ride, cuz it ain't over yet!
Each episode of Nerdy About Nature makes a donation to a non-profit of the guests choosing using funds from Patreon supporters, and in this episode Pierre decided to send his donation to The Dogwood Society!
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