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How can we get more energy from our most abundant, clean, renewable resource? By concentrating.
- Added: Jan 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
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
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
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
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
- Length: 01:32
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
- Length: 01:32
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
- Length: 01:32
If you're wondering how our penguin friends in the Antarctic are doing these days, here are the cold, hard facts. Their poo is getting mighty pollu...
- Added: Jan 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
We've all seen the tremendous destructive power of hurricanes. There were a record number of hurricanes in 2005, and future hurricane seasons may b...
- Added: Jan 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Recently, a group of scientists comparing rainfall over the last century with global production of greenhouse gases and aerosols reached a startlin...
- Added: Jan 27, 2008
- Length: 01:30
The kraken is a fictitious Scandinavian sea monster...But this fiction is borrowed from fact. There really is a giant squid called the Humboldt.
- Added: Jan 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
The pros and cons of solar power in the Land of the 'Missing' Sun.
- Added: Jan 15, 2008
- Length: 05:28
In 1938, scientist Guy Stewart Callendar wrote a paper answering the question of whether carbon levels affect climate change...
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- Added: Dec 26, 2007
- Length: 01:30
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There's good news and bad news from the northern Amazon nation of Suriname...
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- Added: Dec 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
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You'd have to look hard to find the light-footed clapper rail these days. One reason is that this small, brown bird blends in well with its wetland...
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- Added: Dec 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
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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...
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- Added: Dec 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
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Today's creature feature is on a petite pachyderm that has dark gray to reddish brown skin and abundant hair that is finer and softer than a "norma...
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- Added: Dec 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
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Sunday, April 14th, 1935, mid-afternoon. A monstrous black dust cloud quickly forms over southwest Kansas -- and within minutes, people were runnin...
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- Added: Dec 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
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Did the sun burn a hole in your wallet this past summer? It certainly did for some folks. You see, it takes plenty of water to keep a yard beautif...
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- Added: Dec 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
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Pick up your toys! That's what mom used to say... So why not do the same in a forest? After a company logs an area, they ought to pick up after the...
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- Added: Dec 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
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If you're looking for nature to somehow save us from global warming, don't bank on trees.
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- Added: Dec 26, 2007
- Length: 01:28
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Hello, Bluefin Tuna. Tag, you're it! You are among the last of a species that once thrived throughout the Atlantic.
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- Added: Dec 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
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In 2007, an expedition sponsored by the Wildlife Conservation Society explored a remote area in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Team members were...
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- Added: Dec 19, 2007
- Length: 01:28
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Welcome to the world's largest tropical grasslands. Covering more territory than all of Western Europe, they stretch for over twelve hundred miles ...
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- Added: Dec 14, 2007
- Length: 01:27
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Farmers, start your vacations. Because after crops come in, you can leave the debris where it is and let microbes do the rest.
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- Added: Dec 14, 2007
- Length: 01:32
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