Cary Podcasts

A dose of environmental awareness.

Our podcasts focus on raising awareness about the science that underpins environmental issues. Topics include climate change, energy, sustainable living, agriculture, and threats to air, water, and wildlife.

Here's the fish, and here are the fish on drugs

Who needs Aedes mosquitoes?

Powassan encephalitis

Predicting the forest of the future

Valuing wetlands

wastewater treatment

Drugs in our waters: Effects

Too much of a good thing

opossum

Why you should brake for opossums

acorns

Feast before the famine

Summertime ozone

The trouble with burning forests

Lessons from Europe on warming lakes

Marine invaders in the global marketplace

Tech advances provide window into wildlife

The dirty truth about unpaved roads

Social and ecological underpinnings of infectious disease

Invasive species: good, bad, or neither?

western ghats

Mapping risk

Forecasting future infectious disease outbreaks

artificial stream

Drugs in our waters: Artificial streams

The downside of nitrogen fertilizer

Eavesdropping on your neighbors? Even the birds do it

Acorns and Lyme disease

Salty streams and rivers

Big data + technology = improved global health

Teaming up to protect and manage lakes

Grow vegetable gardens instead of lawns!

Mosquito migration

Science, art, and music-all in the same room

Bolivia's disappearing lake

What's all the talk about mute swans?

bioswale

Fifty shades of infrastructure

Has phragmites met its match?

oppossum

Lyme disease & opossums

Toads: Warty, toxic, and resilient

The Clean Water Act's 40th birthday

Killer air

The sound of spring

Hidden costs of e-waste

Tuning into nature’s rhythms

Trees are good for human health

Nature: a natural stress-buster

We all know about rain forests. Now we are learning about fog forests

Go with the flow

Dust in the wind

salt truck

Pickling the waters

Why did the frog cross the road?

White-footed mouse

Lyme disease and mice

Cleaning up with mussels

All the salt we put on our roads in the winter has to go somewhere

The trouble with sustainability

Mobile apps empower citizen science

The rising Hudson

Let's talk about ammonia

Street trees are good for us

Cities as ecosystems?

The world’s lakes are heating up

Dirty drinking water

salt pile

A little less salt please

Why volcanoes are not driving climate change

tick project

Lyme disease: The Tick Project

Time to move Lyme Disease Awareness Month to April?

Frankenbug?

Leave leaves alone

Tiny forest pests cause big problems

New York’s ban on invasive species goes into effect

The hidden cost of antibacterial products

We need more free-range kids

Where did all the acorns go?

Lake Ohrid: Respecting an elder

Hard or soft? When engineering shorelines, it makes a big difference

storm drain

From the road to the well

Time to hug a tree

Lyme disease & acorns

The value of woodland pools

How green is your grass?

Whine while you can

hippo

Hippo waste and fish

Stop putting food waste down the drain

The murky Hudson

When antibacterials go down the drain [Podcast]

Biodiversity is good for us

Have deer gotten a false rap for Lyme disease?

The fight against day burners

Ecological engineering on the ski slope

bat

Ebola and bats

Spring flooding shapes streams

Amazon in peril

Designer wetlands

Warming the tundra

Mercury and selenium pollution in the Grand Canyon

Sustainable city living and urban ecology

Climate change redistributes global water resources

Let's quit carping about it

A tiny invader that's driving people indoors

Missing monarchs

More wildlife diseases are making the leap to humans

Road salt [Podcast]

A mosquito fever expands its range

mosquito

Predicting disease: Tracking probabilities

The problem with coal ash

Size matters

Tough times for amphibians

Dams complicate river management

Plastic shopping bags: a modern blight

Rock salt everlasting

Old car or new car?

In a warmer world, the ticks that spread disease are arriving earlier

Another reason to be ticked off

The case for mixed recycling

Trade and Trees

Are fish made of maple leaves?

Listening to forest data

Hydroelectric dams and carbon sequestration

mosquito

Poor neighborhoods and mosquitoes

Outdoor lights dim nature

Emptying the skies

The many benefits of urban trees

Outsourcing our emissions

Not just hot summers, climate change will affect winter, too

De-extinction: opening Pandora’s box

Why should we care about freshwater mussels?

Can we capture the carbon?

Watch out for this weed!

The case for messy woodlands

Earthworms are invading our forests

Ecology and designing future cities

Keeping a pulse on the Hudson River

camel

Predicting disease: Which animal? Which country?

Lessons from the forest [Podcast]

Coyotes calling

In praise of big old trees

Getting the lead out

Groundwater-mysterious and misunderstood

Keeping a pulse on our planet

Methane: The other greenhouse gas

Fish have to eat

On the care of our common home

pills

Drugs in our waters: Solutions

Leaky pipes and polluted waters

Bad news for maple syrup and moose

Beavers: nature’s nitrogen busters

Invaders underfoot in our forests

Mapping emerging infectious diseases

An astonishing number of lakes

Acid rain: Progress but not triumph

Wikipedia and controversial science topics