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Amphibians have existed for 300 million years. But in recent decades, 168 species are believed to have gone extinct, and almost 2,500 others are di...
- Added: Jan 12, 2007
- Length: 01:30
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To celebrate Valentine's Day, we're going to look at the mating habits of three very different creatures.
- Added: Jan 12, 2007
- Length: 01:30
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Harlequin frogs can't seem to beat the heat. The vibrantly colored amphibians have been dying in droves.
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- Added: Jan 12, 2007
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Tigers are victims of vanishing wilderness.
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- Added: Jan 12, 2007
- Length: 01:30
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Scientists studied seven plots of rainforest in Borneo, Malaysia, India, Puerto Rico, Panama, and Thailand. They took a complete census of all the ...
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- Added: Dec 17, 2006
- Length: 01:30
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It's an invasive little mollusk that's costing the U.S. billions. Its name? The Zebra mussel.
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- Added: Dec 17, 2006
- Length: 01:30
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A predator is threatening the coral. It's a huge sea star known as the Crown-of-Thorns, which usually lives in a natural balance with the coral. My...
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- Added: Dec 17, 2006
- Length: 01:30
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There's an alternative way to treat wastewater: filtering it with live plants and even snails!
- Added: Dec 01, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 3
In the past 20 years, poachers have killed nearly one million elephants. Poachers have driven the giant pachyderms -- which are prized for their iv...
- Added: Dec 01, 2006
- Length: 01:30
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About 20 years ago, New Jersey's filthy beaches were the butt of jokes. The medical wastes and other garbage that washed up onshore were forcing lo...
- Added: Dec 01, 2006
- Length: 01:34
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Many kinds of plastic are forever, or nearly so.
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- Added: Oct 11, 2006
- Length: 01:34
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Slow doesn't describe the spread of the prolific New Zealand Mud Snail, which today threatens waterways throughout the western United States.
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- Added: Oct 11, 2006
- Length: 01:32
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