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Face it. We're energy junkies -- and our fix is getting more expensive.

  • Added: Jun 30, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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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
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Researchers from the College of Forestry at Oregon State University recently received a Presidential citation for developing an environmentally fri...

  • Added: May 30, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
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Can we really harness ocean waves to make electricity? We might actually do more.

  • Added: May 30, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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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
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The ethanol experts are at it again. Scientists in Brazil have found a way to boost biofuel production that's naturally more attractive.

  • Added: May 30, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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An unusual banquet is underway in North Carolina -- and the worms are going hog wild.

  • Added: May 30, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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Most of us have heard that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, and a major contributor to global warming...is there a way to capture the carbon bef...

  • Added: May 30, 2008
  • Length: 01:26
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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
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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
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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
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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: Apr 30, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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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
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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
  • Purchases: 1
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British scientists recently had this suggestion about the European Union's target of having ten percent of gas and diesel come from renewable resou...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
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How can we get more energy from our most abundant, clean, renewable resource? By concentrating.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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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
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Fill 'er up with: Algae 100 - you know, the gas that's made from those golden brown or green plants growing along our coasts...

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  • Added: Nov 19, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
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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
  • Purchases: 1
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Desalination may not be the best solution for providing water.

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  • Added: Nov 13, 2007
  • Length: 01:31
  • Purchases: 1
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You'd think the world's biggest mammal would be hard to miss. But counting blue whales is turning into a whale of a challenge.

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  • Added: Nov 13, 2007
  • Length: 01:21
  • Purchases: 1
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Now you can whip up a meal while you work on your tan. And that's with free, non-polluting, energy from the sun.

Bought by KMXT and WEPS


  • Added: Nov 12, 2007
  • Length: 01:18
  • Purchases: 2
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On top of everything else ailing Mother Earth these days, apparently she's got gas. Lots of it.

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  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
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i-Pods powered by Kool-Aid? They might be just around the corner.

Bought by KMXT and WEPS


  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 2
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Mother Nature doesn't fly a crop-duster -- she doesn't need to. A research team at the University of Warwick, England, recently discovered a natura...

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 2