The two- to three-minute EarthSky en Español videos are being broadcast on the popular program Detrás del Saber at 8:30 p.m. Central Standard Time, and with multiple broadcast times thereafter in 2012.

Galavision is a premium cable offering, and is also available on satellite: DirecTV channel 404 and Dish Network channel 273 and 833.

Visit EarthSky en Español online

If you want to see specific segments, their release dates are as follows:

April 30, 2012
Everything You Need to Know: Bed Bugs
Be careful what you bring home in your suitcase. These days, you might unpack a tiny vampire. Bed bugs are back! And they feed on human blood. Features an interview with entomologist Rebecca Duncan of the University of Miami

May 1, 2012
Did the Maya Predict the End of the World in 2012?
Often you hear people say that the Mayan calendar predicts the world will end on December 21, 2012. We investigate the source and science of this apocalyptic prophecy. Features an interview with archaeologist and Maya expert David Stuart of the University of Texas at Austin.

May 2, 2012
How are Chemistry and Art Linked?
If you’ve ever seen the world’s most famous painting – the Mona Lisa – please thank a scientist! Chemistry helps us keep great works of arts intact. What’s more, chemistry is what got humans painting in the first place. Interview with chemist Piero Gardinali of Florida International University.

May 7, 2012
What are Ecosystem Services?
Environmental conservation is good for nature, but it can also help the economy. Natural processes such as forests filtering water and bees pollinating crops have a monetary value that today’s scientists call “ecosystem services.” Interview with Laura López-Hoffman, Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy at the University of Arizona.

May 8, 2012
Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer?
According to the International Telecommunication Union of the United Nations, on our planet of 7 billion people, there are more than 5 billion cell phones in use. Is all this talking on cell phones safe? Can your cell phone give you cancer? Interview with Jeffrey Andrews, Engineer and Wireless Communications Expert at the University of Texas at Austin.

May 8, 2012
The Reversal of the Earth’s Magnetic Poles
You may have heard that one day soon the Earth’s magnetic poles will reverse. When this happens, our compasses will point south instead of north. Is this dangerous? Should we worry? Interview with physicist Alejandro de Lozanne of the University of Texas at Austin.

May 9, 2012
Clothing of the Future
In the near future, a person’s clothes might power their cell phones, handheld games, and even monitor vital life signs like heart and breathing rates. This is possible due to a newly invented, comfortable cotton fabric that conducts electricity. Interview with Juan Hinestroza, Professor of Fiber and Textile Design at Cornell University.

May 10, 2012
The World’s Loneliest Whale
The loneliest whale in the world, the 52-Hertz whale, sings a song no other whale will answer and travels the oceans alone. Interview with zoologist Sofía Rodríguez of the University of Texas at Austin

May 14, 2012
The ALMA Telescope in Chile
In the high desert of northern Chile, a new telescope with a revolutionary design is coming online – ready to probe deep into space. It will explore places beyond imagination – the distant birthplaces of planets, stars, and galaxies century – to help us understand our place in the cosmos. Interview with astronomer José Orta of Miami Dade College.

May 15, 2012
The Search for Distant Earth-like Planets
Stand outside on a clear night and gaze upward – many of the stars you’ll see are distant suns, much like our own. You might wonder, do other Earths exist? Interview with astronomer Iván Ramírez of the University of Texas at Austin.

May 16, 2012
Zombie Ants
In the tropical jungles of Thailand, an ingeniously deadly fungus hijacks the bodies of ants for food and reproduction. Interview with entomologist Floria Mora-Kepfer of the University of Miami.

May 17, 2012
How to See Migrating Birds
In search of endless summer, birds pursue daunting migrations across our planet. And, as they do so, you can learn to watch for and identify migrating birds. Bird watching is an easy and popular hobby, with some 40 million birdwatchers in the United States alone. Interview with ornithologist Eduardo Iñigo-Elías of Cornell University.

May 21, 2012
Will a Killer Asteroid Strike the Earth?
On Friday, April 13, in the year 2029, Apophis will pass closer to Earth than the orbits of some communication satellites – less than 22,000 miles above Earth. Should we worry? Interview with astronomer José Orta of Miami Dade College.

EarthSky22 appears today (March 30, 2012) through this weekend on Science360, a news service from the National Science Foundation. It’s also being featured on the National Science Foundation (NSF) Facebook page, the NSF Twitter feed, and also on the home page of Science360 Radio. Check it out!

EarthSky team

EarthSky 22 is your 22 minutes of science interviews and news, plus great music from Austin, Texas, broadcast weekly since 2010. Jorge Salazar – recently named as one of the top 100 scientists on Twitter – hosts. Lead producer is Michael Brennan. EarthSky 22 is now broadcast on 40 U.S. radio stations and through multiple Internet outlets including iTunes and EarthSky.org. Go directly to the EarthSky 22 page.

Thanks for the great response to EarthSky 22! Tell your friends about the best new science podcast on the Internet – 22 minutes of science and music – direct to you from Austin, Texas – from your pals at EarthSky.

The EarthSky promise: “To bring the ideas, strategies, and research results of scientists to people around the world, with the goal of illuminating pathways to a sustainable future.”

EarthSky lead producer Jorge Salazar

Accredited online colleges named EarthSky lead producer Jorge Salazar among the top 100 scientists on Twitter in 2012. Salazar joins astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye the Science Guy and many other excellent and prominent scientists and science writers chosen for their great work communicating science.

Read Jorge’s bio

While scientists may have a reputation for being anti-social, when it comes to using social media you’ll find the best and brightest in diverse scientific fields taking full advantage of the chance to connect with laymen and other scientists alike. Twitter is full of opportunities to hear what these scientists have to say, follow their work, and even start a conversation. Here, we’ve collected 100 amazing scientists that use Twitter (listed by category, not ranking) that provide perfect reading material for anyone hoping to learn more about a field or just keep up with the latest in research and writing on some seriously interesting topics.

You’ll find Jorge on Twitter at @Jorge_Salazar.

Congratulations, Jorge!

The EarthSky promise: “To bring the ideas, strategies, and research results of scientists to people around the world, with the goal of illuminating pathways to a sustainable future.”

EarthSky en Español video segments – featuring scientists from across the U.S. – premiere this week (February 6, 2012) on Galavisión (USA), an American Spanish-language television channel owned by Univision Communications, Inc. The two- to three-minute EarthSky en Español videos are being broadcast on the popular program Detrás del Saber, with each program having its premiere Monday-Thursday at 8:30 p.m. Central Standard Time, and with multiple broadcast times thereafter in 2012.

These videos are made possible by a grant to EarthSky from the National Science Foundation (NSF). As part of the work of the grant, EarthSky will be having the videos evaluated by professional media evaluators, with the goal of learning to reach Spanish-preferring Hispanic audiences with more science.

Galavision is a premium cable offering, and it’s also available on satellite: DirecTV channel 404 and Dish Network channel 273 and 833.

Visit EarthSky en Español online

If you want to see specific segments, their release dates are as follows:

Monday, February 6
Everglades
Piero Gardinali is developing better ways to clean human waste water as a way to save the Florida Everglades from drying up

Tuesday, February 7
Aztec Turquoise
Joaquin Ruiz studied isotopes in Aztec turquoise to determine their origin, hundreds of miles away

Wednesday, February 8
Dark Matter
Graciela Gelmini explains the composition of our universe

Thursday, February 9
Caribbean Reefs
Ligia Collado Vides talks about threats to Caribbean reefs

Monday, February 13
Disabilities and Computers
Armando Barreto designs computers for people who lack the use of their hands

Tuesday, February 14
Nanotechnology and Disease Detection
Vladimiro Mujica designs a new device that quickly and effectively detects malaria and dengue fever

Wednesday, February 15
JUNO Mission to Saturn
Michela Muñoz on the JUNO mission to Saturn

Thursday, February 16
Mars Science Laboratory
Alejandro Miguel San Martin on the new Mars rover, the Mars Science Laboratory

Monday, February 20
Nopales and Diabetes
Eloy Rodriguez says eating Nopales benefits people with Diabetes

Tuesday, February 21
Nutrition and the Brain
Fernando Gomez-Pinilla explains how you are what you eat, especially your brain

Wednesday, February 22
Amazon Fires
Katia Fernandes is designing better weather forecasting for the Amazons in an effort to minimize damage from agricultural slash-and-burn fires

Thursday, February 23
Cattle Ticks
Patricia Pietrantonio explains the threats cattle ticks pose

Monday, February 27
Paramos
Daniel Ruiz Carrascal on the threats climate change poses to paramos, an important South American water source

The EarthSky promise: “To bring the ideas, strategies, and research results of scientists to people around the world, with the goal of illuminating pathways to a sustainable future.”

ImpactRadio – 103 AM in Johannesburg, South Africa – has chosen EarthSky space blogger Laura Dattaro for a monthly on-air spot, chatting with Impact’s Laura van Niekerk about space news.

The next chat will be Thursday, February 2, 2012 at 12:30 EST (17:30 UTC or 19:30 p.m. Johannesburg time). You can listen in here. Ms. Dattaro will return to ImpactRadio at that time on the first Thursday of each month afterwards.

Impact Radio chose her after reading Dattaro’s space blogs at EarthSky.

The EarthSky promise: “To bring the ideas, strategies, and research results of scientists to people around the world, with the goal of illuminating pathways to a sustainable future.”

Alex Reshanov

Her selection – selected from 721 entries in the 2012 competition – is titled Shakes on a Plane: Can Turbulence Kill You?. You can read it here.

It’s one of 50 articles (and one poem) to be included in the anthology.

Read Lifeform of the Week from Alex Reshanov at EarthSky.org

Open Laboratory is an annual anthology of the “some of the best science writing online.” In past years, it has been self-published on Lulu.com by its creator, Bora Zivkovic, who said:

The aim of the book is twofold: first, to showcase the quality of science blogging to the audience that does not read blogs and perhaps has a negative opinion of blogs due to the anti-blog propaganda in the mainstream media, and second, to build and strengthen the science blogging community.

This year, the anthology has been picked up by Scientific American and will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in fall 2012 as The Best of Science Writing Online 2012.

Congratulations, Alex! We are proud of you.

The EarthSky promise: “To bring the ideas, strategies, and research results of scientists to people around the world, with the goal of illuminating pathways to a sustainable future.”

Gavin Schmidt

EarthSky interviewed Dr. Schmidt from his offices at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York in late 2011. You can read or listen to Gavin Schmidt’s interview here.

EarthSky Global Science Advisors particularly mentioned Dr. Schmidt’s outreach work including co-founding and contributing to the RealClimate blog.

Gavin A. Schmidt is a climatologist and climate modeler at the NASA GISS. He is co-author, with Joshua Wolfe, of Climate Change: Picturing the Science (2009), which combines images of the effects of climate change with scientific explanations. In 2011, he received the inaugural Climate Communications Prize from the American Geophysical Union for his work on communicating climate-change issues to the public.

EarthSky – producer of the internationally syndicated science podcasts in English and Spanish – serves as a platform for scientists to speak on important issues facing the 21st century. Through its global broadcast network and online outlets, EarthSky creates 4 million media impressions for science and scientists each day in the United States, and millions more around the world. In other words, people hear, watch or read the words of scientists – via EarthSky – that often every day.

The EarthSky Science Communicator of the Year award was established in 2008.  Previous winners include James Hansen (2008), Neil de Grasse Tyson (2009), and E.O. Wilson (2010).

The EarthSky promise: “To bring the ideas, strategies and research results of scientists to people around the world, with the goal of illuminating pathways to a sustainable future.”

The EarthSky team joins the PBS NewsHour and other winners today (January 12, 2012) in receiving an award for excellence in population at the 32nd Annual Global Media Awards. The award, from the Population Institute, is for Best Radio Show. EarthSky’s Managing Partner Ryan Britton is in New York City today to receive the award on behalf of EarthSky.

EarthSky Managing Partner Ryan Britton

Britton will participate in a round table event at noon today at New York’s InterContinental Times Square, where the winners will discuss their winning work. The award ceremony will come tonight at the InterContinental Times Square Gotham Park Ballroom.

This awards marks EarthSky’s second award in recent years from the Population Institute. EarthSky was also awarded the Best Radio Show prize in 2009.

Since its founding in 1991, EarthSky – a clear voice for science on 1,200+ broadcast outlets globally – has featured population experts speaking on the challenges to human society created by our still-growing numbers, for example, growing urbanization, climate-related human migration, how to feed an expected human population of 9 billion by 2050, and the economic challenges of the world’s aging population. Each EarthSky podcast is heard in English and Spanish – 4 million times in the U.S. – with millions more listeners overseas on outlets including World Radio Network and Voice of America’s Daybreak Asia/International Edition.

Listen to EarthSky’s award-winning radio shows on population:

Andrew Revkin:Earth in the year of 7 billion humans
Revkin said, “A new way of thinking is required. The old messages of ‘woe is me’ and ‘shame on you’ are so 20th century.”

Hans Rosling, global statistics expert, on numbers and hope.
Rosling says that while some numbers about Earth today reflect an overwhelming reality, some reveal a hopeful future.

Hania Zlotnik on the newest UN population numbers, According to the United Nations, Earth’s human population will cross the seven billion mark on October 31 of 2011. Zlotnik discusses the numbers with EarthSky.

Nina Fedoroff on science for global agricultural challenges, Fedoroff, a geneticist and former science advisor to Secretary of State Clinton, said, “One of the biggest challenges is how to raise the grain crops, the soybeans, the corn, the wheat that will thrive in a much harsher climate.”

More interviews, radio shows, and articles from EarthSky on Earth’s population challenge

United Nations projections suggest the world has 7 billion inhabitants as of October, 2011

Visit EarthSky at EarthSky.org, and on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.

The EarthSky Promise: To bring the ideas, strategies and research results of scientists to people around the world, with the goal of illuminating pathways to a sustainable future.

Read more about EarthSky’s Spanish Facebook page here.

EarthSky founder and president Deborah Byrd, who is an active and enthusiastic host on the English-language Facebook page, said:

EarthSky’s Facebook page is an amazing place for people who love nature and the night sky. People from all around the world post their photos of animals and landscapes, sunrises and sunsets, the moon and planets, and other objects and events in the night sky. Sometimes we’re able to gather people’s images together on a post at earthsky.org, as we did in the couple of days after Christmas 2011, when the bright planet Venus was near the moon. It has been an absolutely mind-blowing experience to see sky photos come in – in real-time – from around the world. It’s fun!

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The EarthSky promise: “To bring the ideas, strategies, and research results of scientists to people around the world, with the goal of illuminating pathways to a sustainable future.”

As of early January 2012, EarthSky en Español had earned 18,000 friends on Facebook … and counting!

EarthSky en Español’s Facebook friends hail from all over the Spanish speaking world, including the United States, Spain, Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina, Colombia and Uruguay.

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EarthSky en Español Lead Producer Luis Castilla said:

The level of engagement of our Facebook friends is at an all time high. We have 7,000 people actively interacting with us every week, and almost 4,000 are doing so daily. Since we launched our Facebook efforts almost one year ago, our posts have been viewed more than 2.1 million times.

The EarthSky promise: “To bring the ideas, strategies, and research results of scientists to people around the world, with the goal of illuminating pathways to a sustainable future.”