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If you ever need to shoo a herd of elephants out of your backyard, new research suggests that you may want to unleash: the bees!
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Sep 22, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Did you know bananas might soon slip into history? That's because from Paris to Peoria, we all eat only one variety, and it's vulnerable to a fungu...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Sep 22, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
There’s now a shortcut between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, courtesy of climate change.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Sep 22, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Engineers at Ohio State University are cracking up over a new way of separating gasses. And they've possibly created a new process to produce a cle...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Sep 22, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Deep in a Borneo rainforest, a mysterious catlike creature pads across the jungle floor. It has dark red fur, a bushy tail, and could be the first ...
- Added: Sep 22, 2009
- Length: 01:30
You don’t have to an eco-activist to switch to solar power anymore. Just a savvy consumer.
- Added: Sep 22, 2009
- Length: 01:30
Remember Furbys? Those toy robots with big eyes and ears? Well they're back, but this version doesn't take batteries, because it's the real-life eq...
- Added: Sep 22, 2009
- Length: 01:30
How now, brown cow? With digestive fluid you say? Along with some hay? That’s how researchers are generating electricity at the University of Ohio ...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Aug 19, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Which is better? A picture perfect golf course, or a wild and wooly prairie? Well, when it comes to ecosystem health, the more native plants -- the...
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- Added: Aug 19, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 19, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Is there an environmentally friendly way to land airplanes? There is.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Aug 19, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Earthworms rate pretty low on the “cuddly” scale for most people, but they do something exceedingly well: They eat all kinds of trash and turn it i...
- Added: Aug 19, 2009
- Length: 01:30
In Seattle, everyone composts their kitchen scraps. They do it because city laws prohibit food waste from heading to landfills.
- Added: Aug 19, 2009
- Length: 01:30
Don't you love urban sprawl? Right. Thirty years ago, car-friendly developments, and the freeways to get us there, were smart planning. Today? They...
- Added: Aug 19, 2009
- Length: 01:30
What if we traded asphalt jungles for grass-phalt jungles? That's happening. One September day each year, on National Park(ing) Day.
- Added: Aug 19, 2009
- Length: 01:30
It's good to know that tomorrow's scientists are solving environmental problems today. Meet Daniel Burd from Waterloo, Canada.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
What's furry, barks, and sniffs out rare species like a Sherlock Holmes? Yep -- it's a dog! As it turns out, man's best friend knows a bear or a b...
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- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
A newly discovered frog in the remote mountains of Colombia has scientists hopping. Not only can they lay claim to its discovery, but they've also ...
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- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Did you know rice doesn’t need to grow in water? In fact, the main reason for rice paddies is to prevent weeds.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Getting better gas mileage for the ride doesn’t have to mean hydrogen fuel cells, or a fancy hybrid. One solution already exists right under the hood!
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Veterinarians made a house call on the world’s rarest cat recently to give it a high-tech medical examination. It was one of thirty Amur leopards b...
- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
A historian in Richmond, VA believes he has solved the riddle behind the legendary Confederate War cry that was thought to be lost to the ages.
Bought by WEZU, Louisville Public Media, PRX Remix, and Remix Radio
- Added: Jul 08, 2009
- Length: 03:48
- Purchases: 4
When rain refills a dried out pond, life soon returns to normal. Frogs croak, algae grows and dragonflies dart back and forth. But that’s only part...
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Imagine a conventional, gas-powered car, with no carbon emissions. I mean, absolutely zero.
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Dutch researcher Jos Meeuwen would like to put in a plug for energy self-sufficiency. Why?
- Added: Jun 12, 2009
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 2
