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According to a recent report , the earth's temperature could rise up to seven and a half degrees before the end of the century.
- Added: Nov 12, 2007
- Length: 01:24
- Purchases: 2
A Canadian company is considering dredging up gold and copper off the coast of New Guinea...that could be just as bad as strip mining on land.
- Added: Nov 12, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 2
During one three hour period last September, volunteers collected more than seven million pounds of shoreline trash around the world.
- Added: Oct 29, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Let's hear it for "agrichar"! Why? First, because agrichar is a carbon byproduct of pyrolysis, and secondly, because agrichar dramatically improve...
- Added: Oct 29, 2007
- Length: 01:32
The world's largest living carnivore is skating on thin ice these days. With global warming firmly taking hold, the shelves of ice that polar bears...
- Added: Oct 29, 2007
- Length: 01:32
Remember mowing your grandparent's lawn with a push mower? Back then, the older generation had push mowers. Everyone else was into power.
- Added: Oct 29, 2007
- Length: 01:32
Henry Ford had the right idea. Back in the early 1940, he developed the world's first "bio-car."
Bought by WEPS
- Added: Oct 29, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
Attention feed lot operators. Panda Energy International in Hereford, Texas, wants your manure. But only the good stuff.
- Added: Oct 29, 2007
- Length: 01:32
There's a fungus among us that could become a more environmentally-friendly way to weatherize your home, or business.
Bought by KISU
- Added: Oct 29, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
Frogs are symbols of good luck, only right now, it's frogs that could use a bit of luck.
- Added: Oct 29, 2007
- Length: 01:32
Ginger Rogers and Fred Astair. Lucy and Ricky. Love and marriage. Development and, well, conservation? What kind of a pairing is that?
- Added: Oct 29, 2007
- Length: 01:32
Here's a home that's truly "outside the box?" - or inside, depending on where you stand.
- Added: Oct 29, 2007
- Length: 01:32
In 1975, the federal government declared the Grizzly bear an endangered species. But the Grizzly is making a come-back.
- Added: Oct 29, 2007
- Length: 01:32
Considering all the animals trapped in the Los Angeles La Brea Tar Pits, you'd think the gas it's belching up is caused by something that it ate. A...
- Added: Oct 29, 2007
- Length: 01:31
We recently aired a story about Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs - called CFLs - which were described as environmentally friendly alternatives to in...
- Added: Oct 29, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Reduced to a population of just three hundred in the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, the number of mountain gorillas has increased to three hun...
- Added: Oct 29, 2007
- Length: 01:26
The Canadian Defense Department recently tested a robotic submarine that detects the presence of whales and transmits a warning to stay out of thei...
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- Added: Oct 29, 2007
- Length: 01:27
- Purchases: 1
Island life evolves in isolation, and complex relationships develop that can make island ecosystems especially dependent on niche species.
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- Added: Oct 29, 2007
- Length: 01:25
- Purchases: 1
U.S. Department of Energy scientists would hate to be called alchemists. But they're trying something that would be almost as miraculous as turning...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Oct 29, 2007
- Length: 01:14
- Purchases: 1
Catch the news and weather at 10 tonight along with the day's carbon report. Carbon report?
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Oct 29, 2007
- Length: 01:17
- Purchases: 1
Mangrove trees are simply amazing, in a sci-fi kind of way. They live in perhaps the most hostile plant environment imaginable.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Oct 29, 2007
- Length: 01:21
- Purchases: 1
The world's rainforests are disappearing at an alarming rate. But conservationists have a new trick that may help restore them.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Oct 29, 2007
- Length: 01:15
- Purchases: 1
On top of everything else ailing Mother Earth these days, apparently she's got gas. Lots of it.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Oct 29, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
i-Pods powered by Kool-Aid? They might be just around the corner.
- Added: Oct 29, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 2
A daily one-minute news feature about the greening of America
- Added: Oct 22, 2007
- Length: 01:00
