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Ice Age Plant Survives Big Chill
- Added: Mar 04, 2024
- Length: 02:00
The word "Tree Hugger" can often be used in a derogatory manner. Although many people don't know its historical significance is much more than long...
- Added: Apr 26, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Earth Day is the largest secular observance in the world, but it wouldn't have been possible if people didn't speak up for what is right. 40 years ...
- Added: Apr 26, 2021
- Length: 02:30
50 million new-planted trees and a Guinness World Record later, India is on its way to reducing extreme pollution.
- Added: Apr 23, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Our Earliest Ancestor
- Added: May 12, 2017
- Length: 02:00
A new book by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Dan Egan examines Great Lakes history and current issues facing the region.
Bought by WCMU Michigan, WBFO, North Country Public Radio, and WKSU
- Added: Mar 24, 2017
- Length: :55
- Purchases: 4
When Continents Collide
- Added: Feb 06, 2017
- Length: 02:00
On Wednesday, a group of New York-based underwater explorers announced they discovered a mid-nineteenth-century shipwreck that's been hiding in the...
Bought by WSKG, WCMU Michigan, WBFO, and WCPN
- Added: Jun 29, 2016
- Length: 01:23
- Purchases: 4
Not THAT Martha Washington, but a 29-year-old Passenger Pigeon who spent her entire life in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo. Of billions of birds f...
- Added: Apr 19, 2011
- Length: 03:00
The true story of the first state to sponsor a rock concert ... nicknamed "the Governor's Pot Party"... and what became of that governor.
Bought by KLCC
- Added: Dec 22, 2010
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
You know, I'd like to meet the person who cut down the last palm tree on Easter Island. What were they thinking?
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Oct 29, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
To prepare for climate change, sometimes it's good to get down to the bare bones. Fish bones, that is.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Sep 29, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
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
- Purchases: 1
Sunday, April 14th, 1935, mid-afternoon. A monstrous black dust cloud quickly forms over southwest Kansas -- and within minutes, people were runnin...
Bought by KUAC
- Added: Dec 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Nov 15, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
You know, I'd like to meet the person who cut down the last palm tree on Easter Island. What were they thinking?
- Added: Jul 26, 2007
- Length: 01:29
Not long ago, a kindergartener snapped a photo of a rare bird...
- Added: Jun 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
It's no news to anyone that hurricanes can be devastating. Luckily, hurricane forecasting has improved a lot over the years. We owe much of that im...
- Added: Jun 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
It started in 1872 on the barren plains of Nebraska...It's Arbor Day!
- Added: Mar 28, 2007
- Length: 01:32
Ever wondered if your city is a "Tree City?"
- Added: Mar 28, 2007
- Length: 01:32
The bald eagle is back! Back on California's Channel Islands, that is, after facing near extinction forty years ago.
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
In its manufacturing heyday, England was infamous for its skies dark with coal smoke belching from mills and factories.
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Who's afraid of the big, bad wolf? Certainly not wildlife lovers in eastern Germany...
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
They sighted him wandering through the Bavarian Alps, and the German media named him "Petzi" -- the first brown bear known to roam through super-po...
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Who's the longest-lived human on record? Jeanne Calment of France -- 122 years!
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
