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Viruses don't win many popularity contests. But a virus is helping wildlife biologists protect one of nature's fiercest and most elegant animals.
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- Added: Nov 19, 2007
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Desalination may not be the best solution for providing water.
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- Added: Nov 13, 2007
- Length: 01:31
- Purchases: 1
Dallying under the Mistletoe during the holiday season is an ancient tradition among lovers young and old. But, the green sprig, tied with a red b...
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- Added: Nov 13, 2007
- Length: 01:18
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According to a recent report , the earth's temperature could rise up to seven and a half degrees before the end of the century.
- Added: Nov 12, 2007
- Length: 01:24
- Purchases: 2
Reduced to a population of just three hundred in the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, the number of mountain gorillas has increased to three hun...
- Added: Oct 29, 2007
- Length: 01:26
Mother Nature doesn't fly a crop-duster -- she doesn't need to. A research team at the University of Warwick, England, recently discovered a natura...
- Added: Sep 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 2
Nature builds neighborhoods in the most interesting places. Caves, for example, are pretty spectacular neighborhoods.
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- Added: Sep 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
There's a bounty on carbon dioxide molecules these days. And for good reason. Too much C02 can create global trouble by trapping heat in our planet...
- Added: Sep 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 2
I don't know if Santa Claus ever collected seeds, but one of his neighbors sure does...
- Added: Sep 25, 2007
- Length: 01:21
- Purchases: 2
Too much of a good thing. We all know the hazards of that: too much fat, too much beer, too much chocolate...
- Added: Sep 25, 2007
- Length: 01:22
- Purchases: 2
One of the most successful conservation campaigns in history was launched back in the 1970s, when bellbottoms were still in style.
- Added: Sep 25, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 2
Who would've imagined? A wildlife refuge in sight of New York City? Well, believe it! Because, it's the Long Island Sound...
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- Added: Aug 27, 2007
- Length: 01:30
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Batman step aside! You're no match for these polluting villains. Polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, make the Riddler look like a saint.
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- Added: Aug 27, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
Just about everyone knows that the world's tropical forests are being ravaged at an alarming rate with millions of acres are lost each year.
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- Added: Aug 27, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
Save the Whales! For years, that was the clarion call of environmentalists everywhere. So how are the great cetaceans doing?
- Added: Jul 26, 2007
- Length: 01:24
- Added: Apr 12, 2007
- Length: 03:41
- Purchases: 1
The cold-water coral gardens of the Gulf of Alaska are one of the largest protected areas in U.S. waters.
- Added: Mar 28, 2007
- Length: 01:32
Killer storms may actually stabilize coastal wetlands.
- Added: Mar 28, 2007
- Length: 01:32
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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Miles of pure, white snow stretching for as far as the eye can see. That's how many people imagine the North Pole - a place you wouldn't think of a...
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- Added: Dec 17, 2006
- Length: 01:30
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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
- Purchases: 3
Kiowa National Grassland is among the few places in the West with fewer traces of humanity now than it had a hundred years ago. A brief guide.
- Added: Dec 14, 2005
- Length: 02:00
Across the Southwest, people are providing water for wildlife. Is that always a good idea?
- Added: Dec 14, 2005
- Length: 02:00
On the Navajo Nation, modern technology and ancient building designs have combined to create homes for a new century.
- Added: Dec 07, 2005
- Length: 02:00
For many wild animals, crossing busy roads is a risky challenge that often ends badly. Some road planners are helping them out.
- Added: Dec 07, 2005
- Length: 02:00
