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If you ever need to shoo a herd of elephants out of your backyard, new research suggests that you may want to unleash: the bees!

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2008
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There's now a shortcut between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, courtesy of climate change.

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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Which is better? A picture perfect golf course, or a wild and wooly prairie?

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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In April of 1990, biologist David Jude pulled a little bug-eyed fish from the Saint Claire River near Detroit. It was a Round Goby.

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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Hurricane Katrina demonstrated just how destructive wind and water can be. New research into the genesis of these powerful storms could help coasta...

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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The recent removal of the Bald Eagle from the endangered species list generated lots of excitement. And, another conservation success is giving us ...

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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A handmade bicycle builder talks about his trade

  • Added: Feb 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:09
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The science behind the songs of Alaska's humpback whales

  • Added: Feb 13, 2008
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On the frontline of dog litter in Dublin

  • Added: Feb 04, 2008
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Savannah's new bike co-op opens to the public

  • Added: Feb 04, 2008
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British scientists recently had this suggestion about the European Union's target of having ten percent of gas and diesel come from renewable resou...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
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The reintroduction of gray wolves to Yellowstone National Park marked the return of a symbol of the American West. The recent shooting of one in O...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
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Surfing's been around a long time. And from Gidget, to the sport of Hawaiian kings; some two million "surfer dudes and dudettes" hit beaches worldw...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
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In the midst of a drought, California is dry and getting drier. So a recent court ordered reduction in water pumped from the Sacramento-San Joaqui...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
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What does rain forest conservation have to do with preventing malaria? In the Amazon rainforest, the means to these two ends are virtually one in t...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
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How can we get more energy from our most abundant, clean, renewable resource? By concentrating.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
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Why did the salamander cross the road? The same reason that would motivate most creatures: To have sex, of course.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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The folks in Broward County, Florida, have long considered themselves on the cutting edge of conservation. Now they're at it again.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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The fine folks of Omak, Washington, found themselves up a creek recently. Cleaning it up.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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They're a fairly down-to-earth group of people, the folks from the American Society of Landscape Architects that is. But these days they are raisin...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
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What do the Mauritius Dodo and the New Zealand Kakapo have in common? They're both flightless birds that will soon be extinct if someone doesn't re...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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Today, hundreds of millions of people carry pocket-sized cell phones. There are more than 213 million in use in the United States, and each year, a...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
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Portuguese sailors must have been pretty lonely when they first sighted manatees off the Brazilian coast. Thinking they resembled sirens or mermaid...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
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Bringing countries together to protect our natural environment looks good on paper...The book, "Peace Park" is a collection of articles written by ...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
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Imagine trying to get home by running across a busy freeway. Without a walkway, a stoplight or a crosswalk, it could be a dangerous adventure. Well...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
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