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Ever wondered if your city is a "Tree City?"
- Added: Mar 28, 2007
- Length: 01:32
National Arbor Day, celebrated in late April, is a good day to consider the benefits of trees.
- Added: Mar 28, 2007
- Length: 01:32
Beavers, important to the ecosystem, are dwindling in the Rocky Mountain National Park.
Bought by KQUA
- Added: Mar 28, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
Schools all across the country are designing energy-efficient dorms.
- Added: Mar 24, 2007
- Length: 01:32
Octavio Warnock-Graham struggled with a pivotal question as his sense of self was developing.
- Added: Mar 12, 2007
- Length: 28:00
Within The Past Decade, Human Trafficking, Which Is Defined As The Use Of Force, Fraud Or Coercion To Transport Persons Across Borders Or Within Co...
- Added: Mar 12, 2007
- Length: 28:00
The bald eagle is back! Back on California's Channel Islands, that is, after facing near extinction forty years ago.
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
In its manufacturing heyday, England was infamous for its skies dark with coal smoke belching from mills and factories.
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Benjamin Franklin said 'nothing is certain except death and taxes.' Well, today you can at least reduce your taxes...
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Lighting accounts for about a quarter of all the electricity that's consumed in the United States. Here are some ways to lighten the energy load...
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
On average, each of us scarfs up about 140 pounds of this delectable tuber a year. It's a $2 billion industry, but just a fraction of the potatoes ...
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Next time you travel, forget renting that gas-guzzler. A few rental car companies are offering hybrids and cars that run on biodiesel.
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Speedos -- those tight, very brief bikini swimsuits -- may not be ideal for every male physique. And they're a fashion disaster for dolphins.
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Cougars are important predators in many ecosystems. But the magnificent cats are elusive by nature, making it tough for conservationists to track t...
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
They sighted him wandering through the Bavarian Alps, and the German media named him "Petzi" -- the first brown bear known to roam through super-po...
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Who's the longest-lived human on record? Jeanne Calment of France -- 122 years!
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
The place is America?s Wetland -- millions of acres along Louisiana?s Gulf Coast that teem with life
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Well, today, the inventive folks at Adobe Systems are putting their clever minds to work for the environment.
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
You might say carbofuran is an equal-opportunity killer. It takes out Eagles, Red-tailed Hawks, and migratory song-birds of all types.
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Who could guess that a shovel of dirt would reveal a long-lost treasure?
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Ireland is poor in fossil fuel resources, and nearly 90 percent of its total energy needs are met by imported fuels. But the country is rich in win...
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
A Hawaiian voyaging canoe is now sailing around the world for the first time as part of a movement to create a more sustainable world. When the ic...
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- Added: Jan 31, 2007
- Length: 06:07
- Purchases: 1
Big Bend National Park has some of the most spectacular scenery in the United States. It's in the boonies of southwest Texas, yet it has the smoggi...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Jan 12, 2007
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
This is a tale of two marsh birds that live on opposite sides of the United States. They belong to the same species, and prefer the same kind of ha...
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- Added: Jan 12, 2007
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Amphibians have existed for 300 million years. But in recent decades, 168 species are believed to have gone extinct, and almost 2,500 others are di...
- Added: Jan 12, 2007
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2