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What do you do with three thousand tons of smelly garbage a day?
- Added: Mar 28, 2007
- Length: 01:32
Monsanto and Scotts Company were growing a genetically modified strain of grass when suddenly the grass appeared two miles away.
- Added: Mar 28, 2007
- Length: 01:32
Killer storms may actually stabilize coastal wetlands.
- Added: Mar 28, 2007
- Length: 01:32
Ever wondered if your city is a "Tree City?"
- Added: Mar 28, 2007
- Length: 01:32
The compact fluorescent light is way more efficient at converting electricity to light than the incandescent bulb.
- Added: Mar 28, 2007
- Length: 01:32
National Arbor Day, celebrated in late April, is a good day to consider the benefits of trees.
- Added: Mar 28, 2007
- Length: 01:32
Pollution from China and India is making its way to cities thousands of miles away.
- Added: Mar 28, 2007
- Length: 01:32
Farmers in North Carolina raise a lot of hogs, producing a log of hog dung.
- Added: Mar 28, 2007
- Length: 01:32
Beavers, important to the ecosystem, are dwindling in the Rocky Mountain National Park.
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- Added: Mar 28, 2007
- Length: 01:32
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Scientists are working to find a way to capture the carbon dioxide before it's released into the atmosphere.
- Added: Mar 28, 2007
- Length: 01:32
There is an alternative to two billion plastic disposable razors going to landfills every year...
- Added: Mar 28, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Schools all across the country are designing energy-efficient dorms.
- Added: Mar 24, 2007
- Length: 01:32
Why do humpback whales sing? Some researchers are trying to solve that mystery as they take you on a wild adventure in Hawaii. Experience some cl...
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- Added: Mar 14, 2007
- Length: 09:49
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The bald eagle is back! Back on California's Channel Islands, that is, after facing near extinction forty years ago.
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
In its manufacturing heyday, England was infamous for its skies dark with coal smoke belching from mills and factories.
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Benjamin Franklin said 'nothing is certain except death and taxes.' Well, today you can at least reduce your taxes...
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Lighting accounts for about a quarter of all the electricity that's consumed in the United States. Here are some ways to lighten the energy load...
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
On average, each of us scarfs up about 140 pounds of this delectable tuber a year. It's a $2 billion industry, but just a fraction of the potatoes ...
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Next time you travel, forget renting that gas-guzzler. A few rental car companies are offering hybrids and cars that run on biodiesel.
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Speedos -- those tight, very brief bikini swimsuits -- may not be ideal for every male physique. And they're a fashion disaster for dolphins.
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Who's afraid of the big, bad wolf? Certainly not wildlife lovers in eastern Germany...
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
The year 2006 was a heady one for the Laotian rock rat, a rodent thought to have gone extinct about 11 million years ago.
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Cougars are important predators in many ecosystems. But the magnificent cats are elusive by nature, making it tough for conservationists to track t...
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
They sighted him wandering through the Bavarian Alps, and the German media named him "Petzi" -- the first brown bear known to roam through super-po...
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Who's the longest-lived human on record? Jeanne Calment of France -- 122 years!
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
