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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
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
Between rampant pollution and climate change, scientists say our oceans are ailing. But in order to correctly diagnose it, they’ve concluded they ...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: May 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Call it the Manure Mandate. California’s utilities face a state-ordered goal: Provide one-fifth of electricity from renewable resources by 2010. No...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Think you know how to conserve water? Not like Australia, mate, it's in its worst drought on record. Some toddlers Down Under don't even know what ...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Garbage and noise. Sounds like the latest rock group. But no, turns out the two are much more useful. In fact, garbage and noise are actually being...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Okay, so you’re out in the clear waters of Hawaii and notice that algae are smothering the beautiful coral reefs just below the surface. What’s goi...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
University of Calgary biology professor, Peter Dunfield, has been to hell and back looking for ways to keep methane gas out of the atmosphere.
Bought by KMXT, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and KOSU
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 3
Midwestern settlers of yesterday would feel unsettled by what they’d see there today. They wouldn’t recognize the forests for the trees. According ...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
If your friends call you an “early adopter," you’ll want to take note of MIT student Ben Gulak’s way-cool emission-free vehicle. It looks like a cr...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is killing fire ants using a method that sounds like it was inspired by the movie Alien.
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
You think gas is expensive? What about the price of platinum? Believe it or not, that’s one of the things the automotive industry is looking at be...
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
If you build it, they will come. But they might not come back! This is what Brazilian engineers learned recently in their effort to save fish stocks.
- Added: Mar 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
“Cradle-to-Cradle” is the newest buzz in green manufacturing circles. It’s the next evolution of the idea of “Cradle-to-Grave, ” where recycled mat...
- Added: Mar 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Henry Ford had the right idea. Back in the early 1940s, he developed the world's first "bio-car."
- Added: Mar 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
