Myles digs into oil sands mega loads while Rebecca investigates fungus as a pesticide.

Program Title: Terra Informa - Season 8, Episode 25 - MEGA LOADS and Bug Fungus
Description: Correspondent Myles Curry brings us another edition of Local campaigns this week, but its local defined in a new way. In this edition Myles talks to a organizer in the American North West who is mobilizing communities against, and bringing media attention to a not so well known extension of the tarsands- the Tar sands Mega Loads. For more on what the mega-loads are, how they connect to the tarsands and what communities are doing in resistance, here is Myles with this weeks edition of Local Campaigns.

You might think an insect is a pretty strange substrate for fungus to grow on, and you might have a pretty hard time imagining what that could have to do with the environment. Arthropods are the preferred host for the parasitic fungus Beauveria bassiana, and scientist have worked out how to use it as a biocontrol agent on insect pests. Scientists like Sunil Rajput, a former graduate student from U of Alberta's Department of Biological Sciences. His research focused on a fungus's potential as an alternative to chemical insecticides in pest management in greenhouses. Correspondent Rebecca Rooney asked him about his research findings and filed this Science Short report.

Host(s): Steve Andersen
Featured Speakers/Guests: Sunil Rajput, MSc, U of A, Biological Sciences; Susie Rosette, grassroots campaigner; Mike Hudema, Greenpeace

Credits: A production of CJSR Radio in Edmonton, Alberta.

Contributors: Andy Read, Michael McNicoll, Dave Kaczan, Rebekah Rooney, Miles Curry.

Comments: Terra Informa can be reached by emailing terra@cjsr.com.