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How Ants Make Our Cities Healthier

Season 1 Episode 7

NYC ants can eat 6,000 hot dogs a year… and that’s making our cities greener.

There are incredible miniature civilizations booming within our concrete jungles: ants! We don’t often think of urban areas as having “ecologies” but Amy Savage, Ph.D. studies the amazing diversity of ants making it work and how their newfound love of our cast-off carbs is making our cities greener.

AIR DATE 5/8/24

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