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There's an alternative way to treat wastewater: filtering it with live plants and even snails!
- Added: Dec 01, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 3
A team of expert veterinarians is always on alert to help save animals from the devastating consequences of marine oil spills.
- Added: Dec 01, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 3
"Green" buildings incorporate the latest technology to squeeze the most out of the energy that's used for heating, cooling, and lighting. They're a...
- Added: Dec 01, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 3
In the past 20 years, poachers have killed nearly one million elephants. Poachers have driven the giant pachyderms -- which are prized for their iv...
- Added: Dec 01, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 3
American chestnut trees once made up 25 percent of the eastern forest. People could pick chestnuts and roast them on an open fire. Their wood was ...
- Added: Dec 01, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 3
The endangered American Crocodile may owe its future to conservation measures taken near a nuclear power plant. The Turkey Point plant in south Flo...
- Added: Dec 01, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 3
We've all marveled at the shifting patterns that clouds form in the sky. Beyond capturing our imagination, though, clouds play a vital role in Eart...
- Added: Dec 01, 2006
- Length: 01:34
- Purchases: 3
Gunter Pauli is the director of "ZERI," which is short for Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives. He started out making biodegradable detergents...
- Added: Dec 01, 2006
- Length: 01:34
- Purchases: 3
About 20 years ago, New Jersey's filthy beaches were the butt of jokes. The medical wastes and other garbage that washed up onshore were forcing lo...
- Added: Dec 01, 2006
- Length: 01:34
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Nov 24, 2006
- Length: 02:45
- Added: Sep 12, 2006
- Length: 02:20
- Purchases: 3
An stroll through the gory depths of a UC Berkeley Museum preparation lab -- the place where animals are skinned and stuffed for posterity -- in th...
- Added: Aug 31, 2006
- Length: 11:44
- Added: Jul 03, 2006
- Length: 04:31
- Purchases: 1
While the layperson might not be able to tell the difference between a bovine patella and a piece of a T-Rex, the experts at the American Museum of...
Bought by PRX Administrator and 90.9 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station
- Added: Mar 03, 2006
- Length: 04:39
- Purchases: 2
Report on animal Cyber Tracker program inventor Louis Leibenberg.
- Added: Feb 24, 2006
- Length: 09:28
Barbados planners envision power plants run on sugar cane
- Added: Jan 31, 2006
- Length: 06:05
- Added: Nov 02, 2005
- Length: 06:15
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Oct 12, 2005
- Length: 04:42
An elephant orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya, is keeping baby elephants alive.
Bought by KZYX, The Nature Podcast, KFAI Minneapolis, and Connecticut Public (WNPR)
- Added: Apr 21, 2005
- Length: 08:15
- Purchases: 4
Every year the first spring rains rouse hibernating amphibians from their winter torpor. In Amherst, MA this time is punctuated by the annual Sala...
Bought by WABE, PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes, KUOW, and The Nature Podcast
- Added: Apr 11, 2005
- Length: 02:51
- Purchases: 5
- Added: Feb 25, 2005
- Length: 07:54
- Purchases: 4
A schoolbook claims jumping spiders have better eyesight than hawks: is that true?
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and WUAL
- Added: Nov 12, 2004
- Length: 04:25
- Purchases: 2
Scientists find way to soothe anxious sheep. But how do you know when sheep are nervous?
Bought by KUSP
- Added: Sep 23, 2004
- Length: 01:25
- Purchases: 1
2,000 people in Maine make their living digging for bloodworms. Meet Werner Rhode, worm digger.
Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX, The Nature Podcast, and WRVO Public Media
- Added: Jul 07, 2004
- Length: 04:19
- Purchases: 3
The wet and wild nature of Alaska's Tongass National Forest, the largest intact temperate rain forest in the world.
Bought by PRX to iTunes, The Nature Podcast, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Dec 11, 2003
- Length: 11:11
- Purchases: 3
