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- Added: Aug 19, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Is there an environmentally friendly way to land airplanes? There is.
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- Added: Aug 19, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Earthworms rate pretty low on the “cuddly” scale for most people, but they do something exceedingly well: They eat all kinds of trash and turn it i...
- Added: Aug 19, 2009
- Length: 01:30
It's good to know that tomorrow's scientists are solving environmental problems today. Meet Daniel Burd from Waterloo, Canada.
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- 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!
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- 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
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...
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- 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 ...
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- 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
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
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
Up in the air -- it’s a bird; it’s a plane; it’s a -- flying windmill? That’s right, a flying windmill.
- Added: Feb 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
“Thermal depolymerization.” No, it’s not a code word for ‘global warming.’ But it IS a big buzz in alternative energy circles.
- Added: Feb 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
Here’s a two-fer: A renewable fuel source that also reduces carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
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- Added: Feb 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
The African Stenocara beetle has learned a thing or two about water conservation and scientists are hoping to capitalize on the beetle’s adaptation...
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- Added: Jan 29, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Okay -- so it sounds pretty disgusting when you first hear about it. But, well, here it goes. We may be able to get drinking water from treated sew...
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- Added: Jan 29, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Most of us have heard that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, and a major contributor to global warming. But is there a way to capture the carbon ...
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- Added: Jan 29, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
The Power Suit is back. Yep. Thanks to scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Over the years, treasure maps have been of such interest that the Library of Congress devoted a volume to them! Now, a new kind of map is proving t...
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
There’s a bounty on carbon dioxide molecules these days. And for good reason.
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Even if you don’t want to talk about the proverbial “elephant in the room,” you could at least count the number roaming around wild. Or so you’d t...
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
The biggest power plant on earth is high in the sky -- it’s the sun. But, we only get one percent of our energy from it because it typically costs...
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- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
When it comes to discovering sources of renewable energy, Penn State engineering professor Bruce Logan is outstanding in his field. A corn field, ...
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- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Here’s something that probably won’t be in the Guinness Book of World Records. But maybe it should be since it could impact more people than anyth...
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- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
