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Vibrantly colored fish darting among bright-red bubblegum coral. That's what scientists saw when they discovered cold-water coral gardens in the Gu...
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
When it comes to air pollution, every little particulate has a green card. It can just board the next wind current and take a ride to greener pastu...
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:30
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
Beavers -- those buck-toothed, furry creatures we used to make into hats -- are pretty amazing builders. They craft dams more than 2000 feet long ...
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:08
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...
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:17
Rachel Carson warned us. In 1962, she spoke out against the use of DDT in her book Silent Spring. I wonder what she would say about carbofuran tod...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Cheetahs are fast, but time is catching up with them. Their numbers are dwindling due to a small gene pool that makes these graceful Big Cats vulne...
- 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
Generations of kids did their Huckleberry Finn thing down by the Ashtabula, which means "river of many fish" in the Iroquois language. It once tee...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
When rain refills a dried out pond, life soon returns to normal. Frogs croak, algae grows and dragonflies dart back and forth. But...that's only pa...
- Added: Apr 29, 2008
- Length: 01:32
The common reed looks harmless as it waves in the wind of America's wetlands. But, this exotic plant is one of nature's most effective invasive sp...
- Added: Apr 29, 2008
- Length: 01:32
In 1900, America used eighty million acres of grassland to feed the thirty million or so horses and mules pulling America's wagons, buggies, and ca...
- Added: Mar 29, 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
It's another conservation success? Maybe not.
- Added: Mar 27, 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
In recent years, scientists have watched in dismay as large parts of Australia's Great Barrier Reef have died off.
- Added: Mar 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
What's better than a glass of cold milk? How about a glass of cold organic milk from a biodegradable bottle.
- Added: Mar 26, 2008
- Length: 01:25
Saving the puffins is a tough job. But folks in Maine miss the colorful little birds resembling miniature penguins that can fly.
- Added: Mar 26, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Engineers at Ohio State University are cracking up over a new way of separating gasses. And they've possibly created a new process to produce a cle...
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- Added: Feb 28, 2008
- Length: 01:32
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Although less "charismatic" than whales, the Monkeyface, Threehorn Wartyback, and Pink Heelsplitter, deserve our attention too!
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- Added: Feb 28, 2008
- Length: 01:32
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Forget Chicken Little's paranoid delusions about the sky falling. With chicken litter, we really do have a problem.
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- Added: Feb 28, 2008
- Length: 01:32
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How many environmentalists does it take to screw in a passive light bulb? None! And that's the beauty of it.
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- Added: Feb 28, 2008
- Length: 01:32
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- Added: Feb 28, 2008
- Length: 01:32
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Like its name, the Echo Parakeet is bouncing back. And the Mauritius Wildlife Foundation couldn't be happier.
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- Added: Feb 28, 2008
- Length: 01:32
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