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Just about everyone knows that the world's tropical forests are being ravaged at an alarming rate with millions of acres are lost each year.
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- Added: Aug 27, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
There's no doubt about it: our environmental problems can seem too overwhelming for one person to do anything about. But even our simplest actions ...
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- Added: Aug 27, 2007
- Length: 01:26
- Purchases: 1
So what should you do with your doggie's doo? Your dog Fido probably wishes you'd just leave it in the yard!
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- Added: Aug 27, 2007
- Length: 01:26
- Purchases: 1
It seemed like the right thing to do at the time. In India, tens of thousands of cows die each year. In the late 1980s, India's largely Hindu popul...
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- Added: Aug 27, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
Who says you have to travel deep into the Amazon or battle surf off the coast of the Aleutian Islands to do some serious birdwatching?
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- Added: Aug 27, 2007
- Length: 01:25
- Purchases: 1
Cassowaries are kind of, well, "unique" looking birds. They have a brownish casque crowning their heads and two red wattles on their necks that wig...
Bought by KMXT and Prairie Public
- Added: Aug 27, 2007
- Length: 01:13
- Purchases: 2
Is desalination the solution to the California's chronic water woes?
- Added: Aug 17, 2007
- Length: 05:47
Bald Eagles still affected by toxic chemicals.
- Added: Aug 06, 2007
- Length: 05:58
"Thermal depolymerization." No, it's not a code word for 'global warming.' But it IS a big buzz in alternative energy circles.
- Added: Jul 27, 2007
- Length: 01:32
An ecosystem is like a finely woven garment -- pull out one thread, and the entire thing might come apart. An unraveling, of sorts, happened off th...
- Added: Jul 27, 2007
- Length: 01:32
Is there a sex-therapist in the house? Apparently, China's pandas could use some help.
- Added: Jul 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
We burn a lot of fossil fuels, and many of us would like to curb our dependence on foreign oil. Ocean tides and crashing waves could be at least a ...
- Added: Jul 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
The crashing surf, gleaming sunshine and warm beaches make coastlines look like...well, a relaxing place. But for the creatures that live there, it...
- Added: Jul 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
Are you worried about global warming? Well, here's an idea. How about rocketing one trillion miniature umbrellas into orbit somewhere between us ...
- Added: Jul 26, 2007
- Length: 01:23
Jet propulsion doesn't always make you fast... Take, for example, the Antarctic scallop. These bivalve mollusks shouldn't even be able to move.
- Added: Jul 26, 2007
- Length: 01:29
Is Carl Safina up to something fishy? A prominent marine ecologist who is passionate about the sea, and making sure that we don't overfish it, has...
- Added: Jul 26, 2007
- Length: 01:24
Just about everybody's seen Jaws, the hit movie about a monster shark that snacks on captains and coeds. But have you ever wondered how many sharks...
- Added: Jul 26, 2007
- Length: 01:06
Save the Whales! For years, that was the clarion call of environmentalists everywhere. So how are the great cetaceans doing?
- Added: Jul 26, 2007
- Length: 01:24
Sometimes good old Mother Nature seems a bit mixed up. Take the Okapi, for example...
- Added: Jul 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Added: Jul 23, 2007
- Length: 05:01
- Purchases: 1
As Chevron hatches expansion plans for one of California's largest oil refineries, Richmond's Green Party mayor considers the future of her city, a...
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- Added: Jul 23, 2007
- Length: 05:48
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Scientists Attempt to Move Massive Commorant Colony from mouth of Columbia River
- Added: Jul 17, 2007
- Length: 04:13
Climate change sends Artic Snow geese to pastures in the Lower 48, nibbling away at farmers' profits.
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- Added: Jul 17, 2007
- Length: 03:43
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jul 09, 2007
- Length: 03:28
Once every 5 years, the U. S. Congress reviews and revises the Farm Bill, while the American consumer remains blithely unaware that this legislatio...
- Added: Jul 02, 2007
- Length: 28:00
