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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
Wind turbines are a great source for alternative energy. They're less great, however, for birds.
- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
Americans love potatoes. Fried, baked, steamed, boiled, and broiled. On average, each of us scarfs up about 140 pounds of this delectable tuber a y...
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
"Unleaded, super unleaded, or tree fungus." It could be an option someday!
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
What happens to our consumer electronics after they've served their useful life? Discarded computer monitors often get shipped to Asia or Africa.
- 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
Believe it or not, just two generations ago, it was unheard of not to recycle glass beverage bottles. Today, that idea itself is getting recycled.
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
What to do you get after you empty a barrel of fermented beer or whiskey? Besides a hangover, that is.
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Are you wasting your...waste? A company called RecycleBank says: maybe! So they've come up with a high-tech way to encourage people to recycle...by...
- Added: Jun 12, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Alternative fuels are more environmentally friendly than petroleum products, right? Actually, that’s not always the case.
- Added: Jun 12, 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
Is it ‘hip,’ or ‘cool,’ to be environmentally sustainable? That's a question that some of the biggest companies are asking about the world's most p...
- Added: Jun 12, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
A frozen zoo...for all animals? Well, no one’s making the Panamanian golden frog shiver in its terrarium. Instead, this is a unique way that the Sa...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: May 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
There’s nothing like ice cream on a sweltering summer day. And it doesn’t much matter whether it’s in a cone, a shake, a sundae, or a banana split....
Bought by KOSU
- Added: May 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
The ethanol experts are at it again. Scientists in Brazil have found a way to boost biofuel production that’s naturally more attractive.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: May 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Chicago may be the Windy City, but California may become the wind-powered state. That’s thanks to the Tehachapi Renewal Transmission Project.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: May 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Between rampant pollution and climate change, scientists say our oceans are ailing. But in order to correctly diagnose it, they’ve concluded they ...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: May 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Together with Sandia National Labs, engineers from Knight and Carver of San Diego have added a new twist to wind turbines used for generating elect...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: May 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Researchers from the College of Forestry at Oregon State University recently received a Presidential citation for developing an environmentally fri...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Call it the Manure Mandate. California’s utilities face a state-ordered goal: Provide one-fifth of electricity from renewable resources by 2010. No...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Can we really harness ocean waves to make electricity? We might actually do more.
Bought by KMXT, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and KOSU
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 3
We've all heard of individuals who go, "off the grid." You know, the folks who install solar panels or have their children ride stationary bicycles...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Remember that old-fashioned mode of transportation -- the trolley, or streetcar? It's making a comeback worldwide.
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
So, you want to get out and freshen up your garden a tad. Great! But, before you begin planting willy nilly, take a moment and consider if what you...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Think you know how to conserve water? Not like Australia, mate, it's in its worst drought on record. Some toddlers Down Under don't even know what ...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
