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Learning to vocalize is a surprisingly unusual ability in the animal world. How do young songbirds master their musical talents?
Bought by KENW
- Added: Apr 19, 2011
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
The 21 oak species in our region assume many forms and are survivors of the last Ice Age. Who are these tenacious trees? And what animals depend on...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Apr 19, 2011
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Three new companies in the Bay Area are trying to match unused cars with people who can use them – it’s called carsharing. So you, with that car in...
- Added: Apr 11, 2011
- Length: 10:05
These tiny crustaceans come to life for just a short while during our rainy season, but their eggs can wait decades to hatch and ride the wind for ...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Apr 07, 2011
- Length: :59
- Purchases: 1
Animals and insects aren’t being altruistic when they pollinate a plant. So how do plants attract and reward them for their services?
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- Added: Apr 07, 2011
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
With its showy red crest and golden bill, the pyrrhuloxia shouldn't be confused with its more flamboyant cardinal relative. What makes this desert ...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Apr 07, 2011
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Trees seem scarce in the Chihuahuan Desert. But soapberry trees manage to thrive throughout our region and can even be used to wash your hands. How...
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- Added: Mar 22, 2011
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
On Mimms Ranch outside Marfa, the Dixon Water Foundation is using some surprising tools to improve a grassland’s ability to absorb water: cattle an...
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- Added: Mar 04, 2011
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Episode three explores the diversity of Beijing's underground music scene.
- Added: Feb 25, 2011
- Length: 59:03
- Purchases: 3
Ground sloths weren’t cute, cuddly tree-dwellers like sloths today. They weighed 500 pounds and stood nine-feet tall. Who were these Ice Age creatu...
- Added: Feb 24, 2011
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 2
After an absence of nearly fifty years, black bears have been making a remarkable comeback in Big Bend National Park. Why did they return? And what...
- Added: Feb 18, 2011
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 3
Michael has a queasy feeling, as if he's already seen the future and where America is headed...
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- Added: Feb 15, 2011
- Length: 03:14
- Purchases: 1
Calling Congress is like calling Bigfoot, even if you reach Bigfoot he's unlikely to change his mind because of the words you say (which he may not...
- Added: Feb 15, 2011
- Length: 02:45
Pronghorn have perfect camouflage, unmatched speed, and can spot a predator miles away. But that hasn't protected them from a mysterious population...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Feb 09, 2011
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
As all hay-fever sufferers will tell you, this has been a bad year for pollen. What's all that pollen good for besides making you miserable?
- Added: Feb 04, 2011
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 2
Without the Dexter National Fish Hatchery and Technology Center, several desert fish species might have disappeared from the Chihuahuan Desert regi...
- Added: Jan 29, 2011
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 2
Every winter, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico hosts a spectacular congregation of snow geese and sandhill cranes. Why do t...
Bought by KUPR low power FM and KENW
- Added: Jan 26, 2011
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 2
When Elephant Mountain gets too crowded with desert bighorn sheep, and it’s time to start a new herd in Big Bend Ranch State Park, how do you move ...
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- Added: Jan 26, 2011
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Jane Brox talks about her book, BRILLIANT: The Evolution of Artificial Light. And in view of the shooting in Arizona that injured Congresswoman Gab...
- Added: Jan 11, 2011
- Length: 58:59
Writer J. Frank Dobie wished he could be sung to sleep and woken by a coyote chorus every day. But not everyone regards coyotes so amiably. Who are...
- Added: Jan 09, 2011
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 2
Winter brings hordes of handsome cedar waxwings to our region, where they’ll throng our junipers and devour every berry they can find. What makes t...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Jan 04, 2011
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Pine trees are much more than symbols of Christmas and sources of timber. They serve up a smorgasbord for many wild animals and insects. Who dines ...
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- Added: Jan 04, 2011
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Animals have adapted to surviving with little or no water during the Chihuahuan Desert's dry winter and spring. How do they do it?
- Added: Dec 21, 2010
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 2
Sediment is slowly choking the Rio Grande in the Big Bend region of Texas, causing more frequent floods and making it easier for invasive plants to...
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- Added: Nov 19, 2010
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
With their towering white trunks and fluttering leaves, quaking aspens are icons of the Rocky Mountains. Yet every fall, aspen stands paint West Te...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Nov 11, 2010
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
