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When it comes to air pollution, every little particulate has a green card. It can just board the next wind current and take a ride to greener pastu...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
That’s right, a flying windmill. Who knew. It looks like a cross between a kite and helicopter that’s tethered to the ground. This brainchild of en...
- Added: Aug 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Is that monthly home heating bill burning a hole in your wallet? I thought so. With the economic uncertainties of recent months, we all get that si...
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 01:30
The forests of America face double jeopardy these days. First, there’s pressure to harvest wood from native forests -- even forests that provide ha...
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 01:30
“Range anxiety” is what hits would-be electric car buyers when they ponder traveling too far from home and running out of power.
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Mother Nature doesn't fly a crop-duster -- she doesn't need to.
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Paper book or e-reader? Which is greener? Digital readers may save trees. But are they better environmentally overall than good ol’ book books?
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Our oceans have had their fill of carbon dioxide! So says a significant new study from Columbia University. It reports that oceans no longer abso...
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Generally, it’s better to flush. It’s the polite thing to do. But a couple of chemists say, why flush away a great energy source?
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Here’s a curious problem. What should you do with old ships, trucks, subway cars, and even military tanks? For one company, California Ships to Ree...
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Water conservationists might learn a thing or two from the oil industry. That’s right! Groundwater experts at the University of Oregon say that mi...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Jun 28, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
It's difficult to imagine these days, with hermetically sealed food products everywhere, but there was a time when soda crackers were purchased out...
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- Added: Jun 28, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
No crab wants to land in…hot water. And scientists are now discovering how true that is, since rising ocean temperatures could spell trouble for ki...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Jun 28, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Why be boring and plant your garden in the ground when there’s a whole world of gardening possibilities up on the roof. So says Olyssa Starry, a Un...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Jun 28, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Why build a house when you can grow one? So says sustainable building designers at Britain's University of Bath. They recently created a home from ...
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- Added: Jun 28, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Hooray for building environmentally friendly schools! But what about improving existing ones?
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- Added: Jun 28, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
White vapor billows from a pristine mountaintop. Is it a volcanic eruption? No, it’s the harmless steam from The Geysers, a geothermal energy plan...
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- Added: Jun 28, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jun 28, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
In rural India, electricity is scarce. About 70 percent of rural areas have no electricity, so most families use kerosene lamps for light. These a...
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- Added: Jun 28, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Technology inspired by nature, to help nature. That’s the case at the University of Michigan, where engineer Xiaobo Tan and zoologist Elena Litchma...
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- Added: May 30, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Putting space heaters in caves might sound…well, batty. But it could mean survival for bats in 17 Eastern states where a new disease has killed an ...
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- Added: May 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
And to the Red Light District, for birds. Migratory birds make amazing journeys to their wintering grounds and back. But conservation scientist Joe...
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- Added: May 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
What's the best way to capture a tiger? Carefully! That's sure true for scientist Ullas Karanth of the Wildlife Conservation Society. He's carefull...
Bought by KTXK
- Added: May 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Britain's Navy, it was once said, ruled the waves! Someday the island nation hopes to command its tides, and generate clean electricity.
Bought by KTXK
- Added: May 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
The environmentally polite thing to do in the future might be to give your battery the flu. That's right: Batteries may soon run on a virus.
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- Added: May 29, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
