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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
In recent years, scientists have watched in dismay as large parts of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef have died off. Fortunately, they’re beginning t...
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- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
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These days, Americans are driving three times as many miles per capita as they did in 1980. Not only are longer commutes driving us crazy, they’re...
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- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Cambodia's endangered "whispering bird," the Bengal florican, now has a whisper…of hope!
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- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
For over 200,000 years, the Iriomote Cat lived in isolation on a tiny island between Taiwan and Japan. More recently, however, Iriomote Island has...
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- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
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Did you know rice doesn’t need to grow in water? In fact, the main reason for rice paddies is to prevent weeds.
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- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
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Cheetahs are fast, but time is catching up with them. Their numbers are dwindling due to a small gene pool that makes these graceful Big Cats vulne...
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- Added: Jul 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
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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
"Unleaded, super unleaded, or tree fungus." It could be an option someday!
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
What happens to our consumer electronics after they've served their useful life? Discarded computer monitors often get shipped to Asia or Africa.
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Believe it or not, just two generations ago, it was unheard of not to recycle glass beverage bottles. Today, that idea itself is getting recycled.
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
In the groovy 60s we were singing “Where have all the flowers gone?” Could a day come when we’ll sing the same about the honeybees?
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
That classic American pastime, washing the family car, might soon get washed down the drain.
- Added: Jun 17, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Are you wasting your...waste? A company called RecycleBank says: maybe! So they've come up with a high-tech way to encourage people to recycle...by...
- Added: Jun 12, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Alternative fuels are more environmentally friendly than petroleum products, right? Actually, that’s not always the case.
- Added: Jun 12, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Chris Martens is alarmed by the global disappearance of corals. To learn more, he lives at the bottom of the ocean on Conch Reef off Key Largo, Flo...
- Added: Jun 11, 2009
- Length: 09:33
Heidi Sosik and Rob Olson describe how a shared frustration led them to develop a special underwater camera that takes pictures of tiny cells in th...
- Added: Jun 11, 2009
- Length: 10:02
Beavers -- those buck-toothed, furry creatures we used to make into hats -- are pretty amazing builders. They craft dams more than 2000 feet long ...
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- Added: May 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
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There’s nothing like ice cream on a sweltering summer day. And it doesn’t much matter whether it’s in a cone, a shake, a sundae, or a banana split....
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- Added: May 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
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A world without honeybees? That won't happen, if scientists solve the mystery of honeybees abandoning their hives.
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- Added: May 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
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The ethanol experts are at it again. Scientists in Brazil have found a way to boost biofuel production that’s naturally more attractive.
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- Added: May 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
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Kermit the Frog always said, “It’s not easy being green.” But like him, another group of actors has discovered it can be popular. Especially with c...
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- Added: May 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
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Looking for an environmentally conscious vacation that’s out of the way? Try Madagascar. It’s a California-sized island off the east coast of Afric...
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- Added: May 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
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Scientists in Spain have found the missing lynx. But to be perfectly honest, they didn’t know they were missing.
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- Added: May 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
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Southeast Asia’s Mekong River dolphin aren’t having enough babies. That has conservationists puzzled, not to mention concerned.
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- Added: May 28, 2009
- Length: 01:30
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