Fighting Invasives: Working Dogs for Conservation

Fighting Invasives: Working Dogs for Conservation

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Whether locating wire snares in Africa or dyer’s woad in the western United States, dogs are helping conservationists monitor wildlife and eradicate invasive species. In this podcast, Megan Parker, executive director and co-founder of Working Dogs for Conservation, visits with invasion biologist and Yale postdoc Sara Kuebbing about the organization, the dogs, and the dog/handler team’s key projects.

Migration Trends: Young and Poor Move to Lands of Aging Rich

Migration Trends: Young and Poor Move to Lands of Aging Rich

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The world’s most troublesome borders for illegal migration have one thing in common, more older people on one side than the other. Large gaps in the median age on either side show a difference of 19 years for Northern Africa and Southern Europe, and 11 years for the United States and Central America. Age differences between sending and receiving nations are a powerful force exerting migratory pressures on borders, argues Joseph Chamie, a demographer and former director of the UN Population Division.

Joan Marter on the Women of Abstract Expressionism

Joan Marter on the Women of Abstract Expressionism

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Rutgers professor Joan Marter discusses the recently-published book she edited: Women of Abstract Expressionism, which delves into the lives and artwork of dozens of women artists in America in the 1940s and 1950s who painted in the style that would come to be known as Abstract Expressionism.

Nuclear Energy Post Paris Agreement: A Conversation with Christine Todd Whitman

Nuclear Energy Post Paris Agreement: A Conversation with Christine Todd Whitman

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Former New Jersey Governor and US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christine Todd Whitman joins Stephanie Ratte, a student at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, for a conversation about the role of nuclear energy after the 2015 Paris Agreement.