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Did you know rice doesn’t need to grow in water? In fact, the main reason for rice paddies is to prevent weeds.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
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...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
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
"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
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
In the groovy 60s we were singing “Where have all the flowers gone?” Could a day come when we’ll sing the same about the honeybees?
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
That classic American pastime, washing the family car, might soon get washed down the drain.
- 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
Beavers -- those buck-toothed, furry creatures we used to make into hats -- are pretty amazing builders. They craft dams more than 2000 feet long ...
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
A world without honeybees? That won't happen, if scientists solve the mystery of honeybees abandoning their hives.
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
Kermit the Frog always said, “It’s not easy being green.” But like him, another group of actors has discovered it can be popular. Especially with c...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: May 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Looking for an environmentally conscious vacation that’s out of the way? Try Madagascar. It’s a California-sized island off the east coast of Afric...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: May 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Scientists in Spain have found the missing lynx. But to be perfectly honest, they didn’t know they were missing.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: May 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Southeast Asia’s Mekong River dolphin aren’t having enough babies. That has conservationists puzzled, not to mention concerned.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: May 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
It’s tough to be a Sumatran Tiger these days. This beautiful creature is listed as critically endangered on the International Union for Conservatio...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: May 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
The Pacific pocket mouse loves the beach! Surf and sun make fabulous real estate for humans, and, these mice. And therein, lies the rub!
Bought by KOSU
- Added: May 26, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Tiger, tiger burning bright / In the forests of the night. Okay, so that poetic image is to a business spreadsheet what a peacock’s tail is to a du...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: May 21, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Some projects seem simple only to reveal a huge complication later on. I was hemming pants and cut one leg shorter than the other -- yeah, you get ...
- Added: May 21, 2009
- Length: 01:30
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
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
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
