Protecting All Creatures Great and Small

Living on Earth
The World

David Baron of member station WBUR examines the concept of preserving all the variety of life  ? even the tiniest. Microscopic organisms have their own ecosystems and make higher life forms possible, but because of pollution and other changes, many microbes are dying out.

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