1.) Thomas Lalley reports on the deterioration of Florida Bay, caused by its water sources being diked, drained, and diverted. 2.) Host Peter Berle talks with ecologist Rick Ausfeld about how lyme disease spreads and what kinds of precautions one should take. 3.) In the segment "Ear to the Ground" Linda Anderson talks with Brazilian Senator Marina Silva about her work trying to save the rainforests. 4.) In the segment "Earth Calendar" Berle talks with astronomy Professor Woody Sullivan about summer solstice here on Earth as well as what it means on Mars.
1.) Host Peter Berle talks with Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy about a bill he authored, the Forest Stewardship Act. 2.) Berle talks with forest ecologist Greg Apland about his skepticism over a bill that claims to protect the health of forests in the western United States. 3.) Karen Kelly reports on new urbanism, an architecture movement that brings city living to suburbia. 4.) Thomas Lalley talks with Thomas Smith, a biology professor at San Francisco State University about his research on rainforests. 5.) In the segment Earth Calendar Thomas Lalley reports on the yearly controlled burns in the Pine Bush Preserve in Albany, New York.