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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
- Length: 01:32
How can we get more energy from our most abundant, clean, renewable resource? By concentrating.
- 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
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
- Length: 01:29
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
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
What's a good thing to sink your money into these days? Try bogs.
- 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
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
"Waste not, want not" is how the old saying goes. And if you're in the market for a new home, you might want to take it to heart.
- Added: Jan 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Antarctica - The Global Warning - Is Antarctica the 'canary' of the planet? Do we need to take what is happening there seriously - because it ref...
- Added: Jan 15, 2008
- Length: 28:42
What does it mean that Sea Ice has decreased by an astonishing 23 percent this year, shattering the 2005 September record? Dr. Mark Serreze, autho...
- Added: Jan 15, 2008
- Length: 28:41
Are electromagnetic fields (EMF) hazardous to your health?? Dr. David Carpenter, MD, director of the Institute for Health & the Environment at the ...
- Added: Jan 10, 2008
- Length: 28:34
A provocative essay contemplating rebuilding after the Calif. wildfires
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Jan 02, 2008
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 1
Careers Vignettes: The passion that got them started: Kim Szawan - Zookeeper
- Added: Dec 30, 2007
- Length: 05:00
There's good news and bad news from the northern Amazon nation of Suriname...
Bought by KUAC
- Added: Dec 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
Waverly, Iowa became the first in the Midwest to own and operate its own wind generation facilities.
Bought by KUAC
- Added: Dec 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
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...
Bought by KUAC
- Added: Dec 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
Sunday, April 14th, 1935, mid-afternoon. A monstrous black dust cloud quickly forms over southwest Kansas -- and within minutes, people were runnin...
Bought by KUAC
- Added: Dec 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
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...
Bought by KUAC
- Added: Dec 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
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...
Bought by KUAC
- Added: Dec 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
If you're looking for nature to somehow save us from global warming, don't bank on trees.
Bought by KUAC
- Added: Dec 26, 2007
- Length: 01:28
- Purchases: 1
Hello, Bluefin Tuna. Tag, you're it! You are among the last of a species that once thrived throughout the Atlantic.
Bought by KUAC
- Added: Dec 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
Before you pack up the family and head out for some sand, surf and sun, there's something you might want to consider. Your favorite beach may be cl...
Bought by KUAC
- Added: Dec 19, 2007
- Length: 01:11
- Purchases: 1
The Fritillaries are frittering away!
Bought by KUAC
- Added: Dec 19, 2007
- Length: 01:28
- Purchases: 1
