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Remember Furbys? Those toy robots with big eyes and ears? Well they're back, but this version doesn't take batteries, because it's the real-life eq...
- Added: Sep 22, 2009
- Length: 01:30
Less than one percent of the earth's water is consumable, and many parts of the world may be heading toward water bankruptcy. Should private owners...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Sep 11, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
How now, brown cow? With digestive fluid you say? Along with some hay? That’s how researchers are generating electricity at the University of Ohio ...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Aug 19, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Which is better? A picture perfect golf course, or a wild and wooly prairie? Well, when it comes to ecosystem health, the more native plants -- the...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Aug 19, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 19, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Is there an environmentally friendly way to land airplanes? There is.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Aug 19, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
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: Aug 19, 2009
- Length: 01:30
In Seattle, everyone composts their kitchen scraps. They do it because city laws prohibit food waste from heading to landfills.
- Added: Aug 19, 2009
- Length: 01:30
Don't you love urban sprawl? Right. Thirty years ago, car-friendly developments, and the freeways to get us there, were smart planning. Today? They...
- Added: Aug 19, 2009
- Length: 01:30
What if we traded asphalt jungles for grass-phalt jungles? That's happening. One September day each year, on National Park(ing) Day.
- Added: Aug 19, 2009
- Length: 01:30
It's good to know that tomorrow's scientists are solving environmental problems today. Meet Daniel Burd from Waterloo, Canada.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
What's furry, barks, and sniffs out rare species like a Sherlock Holmes? Yep -- it's a dog! As it turns out, man's best friend knows a bear or a b...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
A newly discovered frog in the remote mountains of Colombia has scientists hopping. Not only can they lay claim to its discovery, but they've also ...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
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
Getting better gas mileage for the ride doesn’t have to mean hydrogen fuel cells, or a fancy hybrid. One solution already exists right under the hood!
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
Like many public school systems, Oakland Unified School District was facing serious budget shortfalls when it devised a system to save more than 20...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Jul 10, 2009
- Length: 03:09
- Purchases: 1
In recent decades, it’s gotten harder and harder for small fishermen and women to earn a living from the sea.
- Added: Jun 22, 2009
- Length: 06:35
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 part...
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Imagine a conventional, gas-powered car, with no carbon emissions. I mean, absolutely zero.
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Dutch researcher Jos Meeuwen would like to put in a plug for energy self-sufficiency. Why?
- Added: Jun 12, 2009
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 2
Is it ‘hip,’ or ‘cool,’ to be environmentally sustainable? That's a question that some of the biggest companies are asking about the world's most p...
- Added: Jun 12, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Raising endangered birds...on a volcano? It has benefits -- or, so says Alan Lieberman, head of the Keauhou Bird Conservation Center, perched on Ha...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: May 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
A frozen zoo...for all animals? Well, no one’s making the Panamanian golden frog shiver in its terrarium. Instead, this is a unique way that the Sa...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: May 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Finding the perfect Father’s Day present can be daunting. Does he really need a new wallet? Does he even wear a tie?
Bought by KOSU
- Added: May 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
