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Over the years, treasure maps have been of such interest that the Library of Congress devoted a volume to them! Now, a new kind of map is proving t...
Bought by KSKQ
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
If a tree at the bottom of a lake falls, does it make a sound? Either way, it doesn’t matter to lumberjacks at the Triton Logging Company. You see,...
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- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Even if you don’t want to talk about the proverbial “elephant in the room,” you could at least count the number roaming around wild. Or so you’d t...
Bought by KSKQ
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Old tires. Mountains of rubber. What’s happening with to them these days? Well, in Pennsylvania, they’re hitting the road!
Bought by KSKQ
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Now here’s a ride Little Miss Sunshine and her eccentric family would have appreciated. Think sixties hippie culture meets Star Trek, and you end u...
Bought by KSKQ
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Among these new and creative ways to finance solar panels is crowdfunding. Instead of one person or organization paying tens of thousands of dollar...
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 07:39
- Purchases: 1
Pass the fish and chips, please. Pardon me for eating on the radio, but I just can’t pass up the fish and chips. Neither can a lot of people it s...
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- Added: Sep 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
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The world’s rainforests are disappearing at an alarming rate. But conservationists have a new trick that may help restore them. All it takes is so...
- Added: Sep 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Are you worried about global warming? Well, here’s an idea. How about rocketing one trillion miniature umbrellas into orbit somewhere between us ...
- Added: Sep 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Tropical rainforests are home to a spectacular variety of frogs. This rich diversity of species helps drive conservation efforts in the tropics. T...
- Added: Sep 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Once upon a time in the West, there were 30 million American bison. Now, around Yellowstone National Park, there are only 3900 -- but that’s up fro...
- Added: Sep 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
With digestive fluid you say? Along with some hay? That’s how researchers are generating electricity at the University of Ohio these days -- using ...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
In show business, imitation is the best form of flattery. If this were a universal truth Mother Nature should be ecstatic about these new experimen...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Save the Salmon -- it’s easier said than done. Efforts to restock Maine’s many rivers with Atlantic salmon have been going on for 130 years. But t...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
The decomposition of tiny sea animals and plants that died hundreds of thousands of years ago created enormous natural gas deposits under the seafl...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Most of us have heard that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, and a major contributor to global warming. We all should ditch incandescent light bu...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
ave you ever opened a pdf file? Or used slick software like PhotoShop to manipulate images? Just a click or two with the trusty mouse, and it’s bye...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Shakespeare called it “a precious stone set in the silver sea.” Can you name the country? If you guessed England, you’re right. It was also the fir...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
A beached whale is a heartbreaking sight. And while nobody’s sure exactly why “beachings” occur, scientists have offered several theories.
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
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: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
That’s right, a flying windmill. Who knew. It looks like a cross between a kite and helicopter that’s tethered to the ground. This brainchild of en...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Is that monthly home heating bill burning a hole in your wallet? I thought so. With the economic uncertainties of recent months, we all get that si...
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 01:30
The forests of America face double jeopardy these days. First, there’s pressure to harvest wood from native forests -- even forests that provide ha...
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 01:30
“Range anxiety” is what hits would-be electric car buyers when they ponder traveling too far from home and running out of power.
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Mother Nature doesn't fly a crop-duster -- she doesn't need to.
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 01:30
