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Henry Ford had the right idea. Back in the early 1940s, he developed the world's first "bio-car."
- Added: Mar 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
There’s a fungus among us that could become a more environmentally-friendly way to weatherize your home, or business.
- Added: Mar 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
The hand bone's connected to the wrist bone, the wrist bone's connected to the arm bone, and so on and so on. That was a great campfire song. Turn...
Bought by KMXT, KBGA 89.9 FM, and KOSU
- Added: Mar 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 3
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: Mar 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
To the world-at-large, global warming is anything but a game. But if you happen to be on the Internet, it can be. That’s where you’ll find a game ...
- Added: Mar 18, 2009
- Length: 01:30
Catch the news and weather at 10 tonight along with the day’s carbon report. Carbon report? That’s right. NOAA has developed a system to track carb...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Feb 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
What would you do for $25 million?
- Added: Feb 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
Up in the air -- it’s a bird; it’s a plane; it’s a -- flying windmill? That’s right, a flying windmill.
- Added: Feb 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
“Thermal depolymerization.” No, it’s not a code word for ‘global warming.’ But it IS a big buzz in alternative energy circles.
- Added: Feb 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
Here’s a two-fer: A renewable fuel source that also reduces carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Feb 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
The African Stenocara beetle has learned a thing or two about water conservation and scientists are hoping to capitalize on the beetle’s adaptation...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jan 29, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
It’s time for the creature of the week when we introduce you to the strange, the wonderful, the astonishing variety of life here on Isla Earth.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jan 29, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Now here’s a ride Little Miss Sunshine and her eccentric family would have appreciated…
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jan 29, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jan 29, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
When our noses are plugged, we sound stuffy and have trouble breathing. When fish noses are plugged, they get lost, and lose the ability to have s...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jan 29, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
“Get out of my space--or else!” Most people don’t know it, but some plants go to extremes to defend their turf.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jan 29, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Okay -- so it sounds pretty disgusting when you first hear about it. But, well, here it goes. We may be able to get drinking water from treated sew...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jan 29, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Mother Nature doesn't fly a crop-duster -- she doesn't need to. A research team recently discovered a natural protein that could work as well as an...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jan 29, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Most of us have heard that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, and a major contributor to global warming. But is there a way to capture the carbon ...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jan 29, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Can a stock market tool save a species?
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
I don’t know if Santa Claus ever collected seeds, but one of his neighbors sure does.
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
The Power Suit is back. Yep. Thanks to scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Over the years, treasure maps have been of such interest that the Library of Congress devoted a volume to them! Now, a new kind of map is proving t...
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
There’s a bounty on carbon dioxide molecules these days. And for good reason.
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Even if you don’t want to talk about the proverbial “elephant in the room,” you could at least count the number roaming around wild. Or so you’d t...
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
