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Wolves have gotten a lousy rap for centuries. But the times they are a'changin', and we've got a message for Little Red Riding Hood: Pick up after ...
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- Added: Aug 19, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Okay, so you're out in the clear waters of Hawaii and notice that algae are smothering the beautiful coral reefs just below the surface. What's goi...
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- Added: Jul 25, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
What do you do when the land you love is 'slip sliding away'? Luckily for folks in Louisiana, legislators and scientists are looking at several cre...
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- Added: Jul 25, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
University of Calgary biology professor, Peter Dunfield, has been to hell and back looking for ways to keep methane gas out of the atmosphere.
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- Added: Jul 25, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
This isn't how fertilizers are supposed to work. You'd think that more nutrients in water would be good for aquatic life.
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- Added: Jul 25, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Midwestern settlers of yesterday would feel unsettled by what they'd see there today. They wouldn't recognize the forests for the trees.
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- Added: Jul 25, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
You probably won't find Jimmy Nardello's Sweet Italian frying peppers or Amish Deer Tongue lettuce at your local supermarket. But, a growing commun...
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- Added: Jul 25, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Are elephants going crazy? They've been destroying villages, crops, and attacking -- sometimes killing -- humans. It's happening at an increasing r...
- Added: Jul 25, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is killing fire ants using a method that sounds like it was inspired by the movie Alien.
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- Added: Jul 25, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
The American West conjures up images of cowboys, cattle ranches, and unspoiled mountains under bright blue skies. But one icon of the west -- the a...
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- Added: Jul 25, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
What's "bugging" farmers these days? Greenbugs and grain aphids, tiny insects found nearly on every continent. And they destroy about a hundred mi...
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- Added: Jul 25, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
You think gas is expensive? What about the price of platinum? Believe it or not, that's one of the things the automotive industry is looking at be...
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- Added: Jul 25, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
When it comes to selling solar cells, it pays to be cheap -- and thin.
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- Added: Jul 25, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
In the groovy 60s we were singing "Where have all the flowers gone?" Could a day come when we'll sing the same about the honeybees?
- Added: Jul 01, 2008
- Length: 01:32
A shark that strolls along coral on its fins. A shrimp with enough muscle and speed to shatter the glass in an aquarium. These and 48 other never-b...
- Added: Jul 01, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Alternative fuels are more environmentally friendly than petroleum products, right?
- Added: Jul 01, 2008
- Length: 01:32
The old saying that "there's power in numbers" is true! Scientists were amazed to discover that a tiny marine shrimp called "krill" may affect the ...
- Added: Jul 01, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Businessman Tom Herlihy has eight million employees -- eight million, hungry, little red worms, that is.
- Added: Jul 01, 2008
- Length: 01:32
The forests of America face double jeopardy these days, both pressure to harvest wood from native forests and invasive species taking over those na...
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
In 1966, Thomas Brock of Indiana University discovered life forms that thrive in the near-boiling temperatures of Yellowstone's hot springs and gey...
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Face it. We're energy junkies -- and our fix is getting more expensive.
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
While hydrogen is being touted as the environmentally friendly fuel of the future, a pair of Penn State engineers believe the future may be closer ...
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Maybe there's hope for troublemakers. Some creatures thrive in hot water...
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
We've all heard of "homeland security." But what's "biosecurity"?
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Researchers from the College of Forestry at Oregon State University recently received a Presidential citation for developing an environmentally fri...
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:30
