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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
Earthquakes, floods, hurricanes -- these prime-time disasters send TV reporters dashing for their microphones. Droughts -- hmm, they're not so tele...
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
When it comes to air pollution, every little particulate has a green card. It can just board the next wind current and take a ride to greener pastu...
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:30
Rachel Carson warned us. In 1962, she spoke out against the use of DDT in her book Silent Spring. I wonder what she would say about carbofuran tod...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
When rain refills a dried out pond, life soon returns to normal. Frogs croak, algae grows and dragonflies dart back and forth. But...that's only pa...
- Added: Apr 29, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Young people who binge could be risking serious damage to their brains
Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920 and Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920
- Added: Mar 16, 2008
- Length: 01:06
- Purchases: 2
Remember these lyrics from Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi? "Don't it always seem to go, That you don't know what you got till it's gone?" Unfortun...
Bought by WYOU
- Added: Feb 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
There's now a shortcut between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, courtesy of climate change.
Bought by WYOU
- Added: Feb 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
In April of 1990, biologist David Jude pulled a little bug-eyed fish from the Saint Claire River near Detroit. It was a Round Goby.
Bought by WYOU
- Added: Feb 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
The reintroduction of gray wolves to Yellowstone National Park marked the return of a symbol of the American West. The recent shooting of one in O...
- Added: Jan 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
If you're wondering how our penguin friends in the Antarctic are doing these days, here are the cold, hard facts. Their poo is getting mighty pollu...
- Added: Jan 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
We've all seen the tremendous destructive power of hurricanes. There were a record number of hurricanes in 2005, and future hurricane seasons may b...
- Added: Jan 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
According to the Audubon Society, more than 20 species of common American birds in the eastern United States have plummeted, some by more than half...
- Added: Nov 12, 2007
- Length: 01:19
- Purchases: 2
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
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
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
Nanotechnology is being used in all kinds of products with little government regulation.
Bought by KUOW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 18, 2007
- Length: 04:01
- Purchases: 2
What happens after a person donates his body to science? Follow the process from embalming table to medical school to waterfront plot.
- Added: May 09, 2007
- Length: 12:58
Water shortages could force us to rely on drinking water from treated sewage.
- Added: Apr 16, 2007
- Length: 01:32
Invasive lionfish threaten native fish, but scientists say that lionfish are probably here to stay.
- Added: Apr 16, 2007
- Length: 01:32
Monsanto and Scotts Company were growing a genetically modified strain of grass when suddenly the grass appeared two miles away.
- Added: Mar 28, 2007
- Length: 01:32
Pollution from China and India is making its way to cities thousands of miles away.
- Added: Mar 28, 2007
- Length: 01:32
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
Harlequin frogs can't seem to beat the heat. The vibrantly colored amphibians have been dying in droves.
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- Added: Jan 12, 2007
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Dec 19, 2006
- Length: 08:35
- Purchases: 1
