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Face it. We're energy junkies -- and our fix is getting more expensive.
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
While hydrogen is being touted as the environmentally friendly fuel of the future, a pair of Penn State engineers believe the future may be closer ...
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Maybe there's hope for troublemakers. Some creatures thrive in hot water...
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
What to do you get after you empty a barrel of fermented beer or whiskey? Besides a hangover, that is...
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Can we really harness ocean waves to make electricity? We might actually do more.
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
It started off routinely enough -- at least in this day and age of genetic engineering and other laboratory efforts to "improve" upon nature.
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Between rampant pollution and climate change, scientists say our oceans are ailing. But in order to correctly diagnose it, they've concluded they ...
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Already declared the third smartest city in the U.S. by Forbes Magazine, Ann Arbor, Michigan recently had another bright idea. They decided to rep...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
What''s furry, barks, and sniffs out rare species like a Sherlock Holmes? Yep -- it's a dog!
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
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: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Ever been told you have feet of clay? How about feet of a beetle? Well now you can take that one as a compliment.
- Added: Mar 29, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Earthworms rate pretty low on the "cuddly" scale for most people, but they do something exceedingly well: they eat all kinds of trash and turn it i...
- Added: Mar 29, 2008
- Length: 01:32
And it's Billie first off the beach. Billie, in the lead. And the winner -- Billie!
- Added: Mar 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
The latest air pollution discovery reads like a murder mystery. Thousands died from strokes and heart attacks within 24 hours after jumps in partic...
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- Added: Feb 28, 2008
- Length: 01:32
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Why did the salamander cross the road? The same reason that would motivate most creatures: To have sex, of course.
- Added: Jan 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
The folks in Broward County, Florida, have long considered themselves on the cutting edge of conservation. Now they're at it again.
- Added: Jan 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Recently, a group of scientists comparing rainfall over the last century with global production of greenhouse gases and aerosols reached a startlin...
- Added: Jan 27, 2008
- Length: 01:30
The kraken is a fictitious Scandinavian sea monster...But this fiction is borrowed from fact. There really is a giant squid called the Humboldt.
- Added: Jan 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Tales of pirates and plunder have inspired more than a few Hollywood epics. Did you catch the summer block buster with Johnny Depp? But pirates le...
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- Added: Dec 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
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If you're looking for nature to somehow save us from global warming, don't bank on trees.
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- Added: Dec 26, 2007
- Length: 01:28
- Purchases: 1
In 2007, an expedition sponsored by the Wildlife Conservation Society explored a remote area in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Team members were...
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- Added: Dec 19, 2007
- Length: 01:28
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Your ship has come in, environmentalists. And it's powered by cleaner-burning, highly efficient, fuel cells.
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- Added: Dec 19, 2007
- Length: 01:23
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On Survivor Island, everyone is out for themselves. On Conservation Island, everyone is out for the planet.
Bought by KUAC
- Added: Dec 14, 2007
- Length: 01:32
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Viruses don't win many popularity contests. But a virus is helping wildlife biologists protect one of nature's fiercest and most elegant animals.
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- Added: Nov 19, 2007
- Length: 01:30
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Henry Ford had the right idea. Back in the early 1940, he developed the world's first "bio-car."
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- Added: Oct 29, 2007
- Length: 01:32
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