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Catch the news and weather at 10 tonight along with the day’s carbon report. Carbon report? That’s right. If the CarbonTracker system developed by...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jul 26, 2012
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Over the years, treasure maps have been of such interest that the Library of Congress devoted a volume to them! Now, a new kind of map is proving t...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jul 26, 2012
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
If a tree at the bottom of a lake falls, does it make a sound? Either way, it doesn’t matter to lumberjacks at the Triton Logging Company. You see,...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jul 26, 2012
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Even if you don’t want to talk about the proverbial “elephant in the room,” you could at least count the number roaming around wild. Or so you’d t...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jul 25, 2012
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Old tires. Mountains of rubber. What’s happening with to them these days? Well, in Pennsylvania, they’re hitting the road!
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- Added: Jul 25, 2012
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Now here’s a ride Little Miss Sunshine and her eccentric family would have appreciated.
- Added: Jul 25, 2012
- Length: 01:30
Pass the fish and chips, please. Pardon me for eating on the radio, but I just can’t pass up the fish and chips. Neither can a lot of people it s...
- Added: Jul 25, 2012
- Length: 01:30
Sometimes you don’t have to look far to find a solution. While 300 million people in Africa suffer from hunger and malnutrition, the most popular ...
- Added: Jul 25, 2012
- Length: 01:30
Is there a sex-therapist in the house? Apparently, China's pandas could use some help. It seems that some of the males have lost their moves, their...
- Added: Jul 25, 2012
- Length: 01:30
About two and a half million tons of old computers, televisions, cell phones, fax machines, and other equipment are trashed each year in the United...
- Added: Jul 25, 2012
- Length: 01:30
The world’s rainforests are disappearing at an alarming rate. But conservationists have a new trick that may help restore them. All it takes is so...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jun 27, 2012
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
In the summer, an air conditioner can be a necessity. However, cooling down a house can be expensive, but there are ways to reduce the cost.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jun 27, 2012
- 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: Jun 27, 2012
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Are you worried about global warming? Well, here’s an idea. How about rocketing one trillion miniature umbrellas into orbit somewhere between us ...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jun 27, 2012
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Tropical rainforests are home to a spectacular variety of frogs. This rich diversity of species helps drive conservation efforts in the tropics. Th...
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- Added: Jun 27, 2012
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Once upon a time in the West, there were 30 million American bison. Now, around Yellowstone National Park, there are only 3900 -- but that’s up fro...
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- Added: Jun 27, 2012
- 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. But, they’re actually con...
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- Added: Jun 27, 2012
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
In show business, imitation is the best form of flattery. If this were a universal truth Mother Nature should be ecstatic about these new experimen...
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- Added: Jun 26, 2012
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
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: May 30, 2012
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Save the Salmon -- it’s easier said than done. Efforts to restock Maine’s many rivers with Atlantic salmon have been going on for 130 years. But t...
- Added: May 30, 2012
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Ever seen a manatee? Well, they look kind of like a tusk-less walrus -- BIG, slow, and pretty darn chunky. Makes you wonder why Christopher Columbu...
- Added: May 30, 2012
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
The decomposition of tiny sea animals and plants that died hundreds of thousands of years ago created enormous natural gas deposits under the seafl...
- Added: May 30, 2012
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Most of us have heard that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, and a major contributor to global warming. We all should ditch incandescent light bu...
- Added: May 30, 2012
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Have you ever opened a pdf file? Or used slick software like PhotoShop to manipulate images? Just a click or two with the trusty mouse, and it’s by...
- Added: May 30, 2012
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
A beached whale is a heartbreaking sight. And while nobody’s sure exactly why “beachings” occur, scientists have offered several theories.
- Added: May 30, 2012
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
