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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
The place is America?s Wetland -- millions of acres along Louisiana?s Gulf Coast that teem with life
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Henry Ford always thought agriculture and industry were natural partners.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Jan 12, 2007
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Have you ever wondered where migratory birds get all the energy for such long, grueling flights? Well, there are pit stops along the way, like the ...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Jan 12, 2007
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
The Siberian permafrost - a sub-Arctic peat bog about the size of France and Germany - is chock full of carbon that's trapped in its frozen soils. ...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Dec 17, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
An award-winning documentary on the collapse of the Newfoundland cod fishery and its resounding effects on the local community.
Bought by HowSound, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, Documentary on One - RTE, Ireland and more
- Added: May 04, 2006
- Length: 14:57
- Purchases: 8
Train smoke plagues Durango, Colorado residents while feeding the town's economy.
- Added: Nov 03, 2005
- Length: 02:38
- Purchases: 2
Rocco Migliorelli talks about farming in the Bronx during the 1930's, 40's and 50's
Bought by WFUV and The Nature Podcast
- Added: Aug 17, 2005
- Length: 04:12
- Purchases: 2
President Jimmy Carter builds daughter Amy an environmentally-friendly tree house on the White House grounds.
- Added: Mar 22, 2005
- Length: 02:00
Californians rediscover their olive groves.
- Added: Dec 02, 2003
- Length: 15:45
- Purchases: 3
