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For many who are environmentally-minded, the mere mention of DDT sets them on edge. Yet, like so many environmental issues, there is another side.
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- Added: Oct 29, 2008
- Length: 01:30
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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 ...
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- Added: Sep 29, 2008
- Length: 01:30
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You've probably seen those daring para-surfers who use wind power to skip across the waves. Well, the gusts and gales that these terrestrial mammal...
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- Added: Sep 29, 2008
- Length: 01:30
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The seas off the West Coast of the United States are thick with giant kelp that grows up to 120 feet tall. Kelp is home to all kinds of sea life, a...
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- Added: Sep 29, 2008
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A beached whale is a heartbreaking sight. And while nobody's sure exactly why "beachings" occur, scientists have offered several theories.
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- Added: Aug 19, 2008
- Length: 01:30
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This piece takes a look at nanomedicine in the fight to combat breast cancer.
- Added: Aug 05, 2008
- Length: 06:23
What is an EMF? What you don't know CAN harm you! This month the Living Well Show presents a very important two part program on the evidence that ...
- Added: Aug 01, 2008
- Length: 28:45
- Added: Jul 07, 2008
- Length: 03:46
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We've all heard of "homeland security." But what's "biosecurity"?
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Earth & Sky 60-Second Radio Shows Release Date June 16, 2008
- Added: Jun 13, 2008
- Length: 04:59
On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, an exploration of brain research suggesting that compassion can be learned and increased with practice, simil...
- Added: Jun 01, 2008
- Length: 29:03
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It started off routinely enough -- at least in this day and age of genetic engineering and other laboratory efforts to "improve" upon nature.
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Most of us have heard that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, and a major contributor to global warming...is there a way to capture the carbon bef...
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:26
On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, an exploration of brain research suggesting that compassion can be learned and increased with practice, simil...
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- Added: May 29, 2008
- Length: 58:55
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Attempting to have a baby led Carole Chabries to appreciate the complexities of the human body.
- Added: May 07, 2008
- Length: 04:35
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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
Noise from energy development may threaten Sage Grouse mating
- Added: Apr 28, 2008
- Length: 05:12
Syphilitic skulls, racial science, and some of the oldest non-western music recordings in history - come explore the beauty and pathos that is the ...
- Added: Apr 15, 2008
- Length: 32:55
- Added: Apr 15, 2008
- Length: 08:33
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It's another conservation success? Maybe not.
- Added: Mar 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
In recent years, scientists have watched in dismay as large parts of Australia's Great Barrier Reef have died off.
- Added: Mar 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
What's better than a glass of cold milk? How about a glass of cold organic milk from a biodegradable bottle.
- Added: Mar 26, 2008
- Length: 01:25
Saving the puffins is a tough job. But folks in Maine miss the colorful little birds resembling miniature penguins that can fly.
- Added: Mar 26, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Engineers at Ohio State University are cracking up over a new way of separating gasses. And they've possibly created a new process to produce a cle...
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- Added: Feb 28, 2008
- Length: 01:32
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Although less "charismatic" than whales, the Monkeyface, Threehorn Wartyback, and Pink Heelsplitter, deserve our attention too!
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- Added: Feb 28, 2008
- Length: 01:32
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