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Already declared the third smartest city in the U.S. by Forbes Magazine, Ann Arbor, Michigan recently had another bright idea. They decided to rep...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
What''s furry, barks, and sniffs out rare species like a Sherlock Holmes? Yep -- it's a dog!
- 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
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
And it's Billie first off the beach. Billie, in the lead. And the winner -- Billie!
- Added: Mar 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
The latest air pollution discovery reads like a murder mystery. Thousands died from strokes and heart attacks within 24 hours after jumps in partic...
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- Added: Feb 28, 2008
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
Why did the salamander cross the road? The same reason that would motivate most creatures: To have sex, of course.
- Added: Jan 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
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
Recently, a group of scientists comparing rainfall over the last century with global production of greenhouse gases and aerosols reached a startlin...
- Added: Jan 27, 2008
- Length: 01:30
The kraken is a fictitious Scandinavian sea monster...But this fiction is borrowed from fact. There really is a giant squid called the Humboldt.
- Added: Jan 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
We visit wetlands around the San Francisco Bay, where scientists are waging a scorched-marsh campaign against a devastating kind of East Coast grass.
- Added: Jan 04, 2008
- Length: 29:00
Tales of pirates and plunder have inspired more than a few Hollywood epics. Did you catch the summer block buster with Johnny Depp? But pirates le...
Bought by KUAC
- Added: Dec 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
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If you're looking for nature to somehow save us from global warming, don't bank on trees.
Bought by KUAC
- Added: Dec 26, 2007
- Length: 01:28
- Purchases: 1
In 2007, an expedition sponsored by the Wildlife Conservation Society explored a remote area in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Team members were...
Bought by KUAC
- Added: Dec 19, 2007
- Length: 01:28
- Purchases: 1
Your ship has come in, environmentalists. And it's powered by cleaner-burning, highly efficient, fuel cells.
Bought by KUAC
- Added: Dec 19, 2007
- Length: 01:23
- Purchases: 1
On Survivor Island, everyone is out for themselves. On Conservation Island, everyone is out for the planet.
Bought by KUAC
- Added: Dec 14, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
Viruses don't win many popularity contests. But a virus is helping wildlife biologists protect one of nature's fiercest and most elegant animals.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Nov 19, 2007
- Length: 01:30
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The Story of an Andean Community's Response to a Disappeared Glacier
Bought by KVMR, The Nature Podcast, and WBEZ
- Added: Nov 07, 2007
- Length: 16:32
- Purchases: 3
Henry Ford had the right idea. Back in the early 1940, he developed the world's first "bio-car."
Bought by WEPS
- Added: Oct 29, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
There's a fungus among us that could become a more environmentally-friendly way to weatherize your home, or business.
Bought by KISU
- Added: Oct 29, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
Here's a home that's truly "outside the box?" - or inside, depending on where you stand.
- Added: Oct 29, 2007
- Length: 01:32
Considering all the animals trapped in the Los Angeles La Brea Tar Pits, you'd think the gas it's belching up is caused by something that it ate. A...
- Added: Oct 29, 2007
- Length: 01:31
U.S. Department of Energy scientists would hate to be called alchemists. But they're trying something that would be almost as miraculous as turning...
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- Added: Oct 29, 2007
- Length: 01:14
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Catch the news and weather at 10 tonight along with the day's carbon report. Carbon report?
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- Added: Oct 29, 2007
- Length: 01:17
- Purchases: 1
