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Climate scientist and MacArthur "Genius" award-winner Ben Santer on how scientists know that climate change is not just due to the Sun.
- Added: Jul 17, 2015
- Length: 04:02
For such a small region, this sprawling landscape of the Bootheel has some of the most productive farmland in the U.S. A solid water supply and nut...
- Added: Jun 03, 2015
- Length: 06:50
The movement for GMO regulation is going local. And the seed and pesticide companies are fighting back. As part of “What the Fork”, a multi-media...
- Added: Jun 06, 2014
- Length: 29:59
The California Clapper Rail is a bird that likes to be heard, but not seen. But today, on this windy morning at Arrowhead Marsh in Oakland, they ar...
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 07:13
They’re called bunker up north, and Pogies here in the South, and are sometimes referred to as “The Most Important Fish In the Sea”. These are the ...
- Added: Apr 11, 2014
- Length: 04:48
In today’s EcoReport feature, Kim Ferraro, Water and Agricultural Policy Director for the Hoosier Environmental Council, talks about the ag-gag or ...
- Added: Jan 23, 2014
- Length: 09:59
In today’s EcoReport feature, Kim Ferraro, Water and Agricultural Policy Director for the Hoosier Environmental Council, talks about the ag-gag or ...
- Added: Jan 23, 2014
- Length: 29:41
Hundreds of millions of years ago, tectonic plates were shifting and volcanoes erupted along the Eastern Coast of the United States. But discoverie...
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- Added: Dec 16, 2013
- Length: 02:47
- Purchases: 1
For years, a mysterious “colony collapse disorder” has been killing honeybees across the nation. This year, commercial beekeepers have reported los...
Bought by KENW and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: May 07, 2013
- Length: 02:27
- Purchases: 2
This year’s outbreak of the West Nile virus is breaking records, with over 1500 cases reported so far. One researcher believes that decreasing the ...
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- Added: Sep 07, 2012
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 1
CASPER, Wyo. - A federal study of the use of silica in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in oil and gas fields found that workers are sometimes ov...
- Added: Jun 26, 2012
- Length: 02:07
CONCORD, N.H. - The risks to water and wildlife if tar sands from Alberta are sent through an existing, aging pipeline across Vermont, New Hampshir...
- Added: Jun 19, 2012
- Length: 01:34
DENVER - A group of Front Range water providers is worried that the Bureau of Land Management's oversight of potential water use by oil shale compa...
- Added: Jun 18, 2012
- Length: 02:01
New York, NY - The Cuomo administration appears to have a new "fracking plan" that would place geographic limitations on shale gas drilling in New ...
- Added: Jun 14, 2012
- Length: 01:55
RALEIGH, N.C. - Fracking is on the fast track in North Carolina.
A state Senate bill already has passed, and now the House, after making some chan...
- Added: Jun 14, 2012
- Length: 01:37
FORT COLLINS, Colo. - The fast-moving High Park Fire sent a plume of choking smoke over the Front Range urban corridor on Tuesday morning - the mos...
- Added: Jun 13, 2012
- Length: 01:52
DES MOINES, Iowa – Compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) save energy and last longer than incandescent bulbs, but when they do burn out, disposing...
- Added: Jun 08, 2012
- Length: 01:13
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - It started in Texas a year ago: grassroots pressure on the nation's leading retailer to recycle hazardous electronic waste (e-...
- Added: Jun 04, 2012
- Length: 02:10
When the state begins auctioning off cap-and-trade revenues next year, a new report suggests those dollars be put into California's clean-energy ec...
- Added: May 31, 2012
- Length: 01:29
DENVER – El paisaje natural de Colorado es igual a beneficios económicos, y no sólo en recreación al aire libre y en turismo. Tales son los resulta...
- Added: May 30, 2012
- Length: 02:14
DENVER - Colorado's natural landscape yields big economic benefits, according to a report released today - and not just in terms of outdoor recreat...
- Added: May 30, 2012
- Length: 01:58
GILLMAN, Colo. - It's the single largest source of toxic waste in the U.S., and some worry that loopholes in the Clean Water Act could allow the mi...
- Added: May 21, 2012
- Length: 01:53
A renowned marine biologist is studying a silent killer in oceans and bays. Allison Quantz has the story.
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- Added: May 10, 2012
- Length: 02:39
- Purchases: 1
Want to find the “smoking gun” for domestic water well pollution near fracking in Wyoming? Put a tracer in fracking fluids. That’s one recommendati...
- Added: May 07, 2012
- Length: 01:50
The House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources holds a field hearing in Denver this week on proposed federal regulations for the process kn...
- Added: Apr 30, 2012
- Length: 01:50
