Podcast: Report on the Fukushima Disaster

This Week: We learn about a new report that provides an in-depth look at the Fukushima disaster, hours and days after north-eastern Japan was struck by an earthquake and tsunami. European scientists have turned to DNA technology to identify illegally harvested fish. What do humans and ants have in common? Warfare, says ant researcher Mark Moffett. He says humans and ants fight in similar ways.

How Ants Wage War

Marco Werman talks with ant researcher extraordinaire Mark Moffett about ant ‘warfare’.

In the Hunt for the Big-Butt Ant Delicacy

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In parts of Colombia, a certain kind of leafcutter ant, known to locals as hormiga culona or ‘big-bottomed ants’ is a spring delicacy. They can fetch up to $ 40 a pound. John Otis reports. Download MP3

Slideshow: Ants as a Delicacy

Reporter’s Journal: Snapshots of Kenya II

The World’s Andrea Crossan is criss-crossing Kenya. In this installment of her Reporter’s Journal, she visits Mpala Research Center and Conservancy, and comes face-to-face with everything from wild dogs to symbiotic ants.