Fishermen in Peru hunt and butcher dolphins, even though it's illegal. Then they harvest meat from the animals to use as cheap bait for sharks.
Hunting dolphins is illegal, but that doesn't stop Peru's shark fishermen from slaughtering dolphins to use as bait.
Undercover filming by the UK investigative team Ecostorm has exposed — for the first time — the brutal hunting and killing of dolphins for use as shark bait off Peru's Pacific coast.
Yadvinder Malhi, a leading biologist from Oxford University, says that tropical zones such as those in Peru are bearing the brunt of climate change.
Part V: In the final segment of Justin Catanoso's radio series on WFDD in North Carolina, he discusses his reporting with Wake Forest biologist Miles Silman and host Audrey Fannin.
Part IV: The reality of global warming is grim. But there are things that can be done — if the world's leaders have the will to act, and soon.
Part III: An explanation of why the tropics are important to global viability and what's at stake with temperatures rising.
Tropical plants are migrating due to climate change, but can they move fast enough?
Part II: Wake Forest tropical biologist Miles Silman was attracted to the rain forests of southern Peru to study forest mechanics. Global warming made him shift his focus.
Part I: In the first segment of a five-part radio series, reporter Justin Catanoso takes listeners into the jungle in Peru's Amazon basin to witness the impact of global warming in the tropics.
Justin Catanoso reports on how climate change is affecting tropical forests in Peru.
A British climate scientist asks Americans, “Why can’t we just look at this subject on its own merits and weigh the evidence and what to do?”
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