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Remember elementary school when the nurse checked everyone's head for lice? Now, it's fish farmers who need to keep sea lice in check.
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- Added: Aug 20, 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
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A brilliant young professor invents a way to heat and cool homes -- for free. The president gives him a prestigious award, and he waits for the en...
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- Added: Aug 19, 2008
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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
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Isolated from the rest of the world for most of their existence, the Galapagos Islands are home to more unique plant species than almost any other ...
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- Added: Jul 25, 2008
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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
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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
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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
One of every 15 people in the world relies on China's Yangtze River, the third largest river on Earth. How big is it? Well, people used to say the ...
- 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
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If you're stuck in traffic, here's something you might be interested in knowing. A University of Southern California research group reports that ne...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
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
Camping. Fresh air. Stunning vistas. Mountain streams flashing in the sunlight. And the great outdoors offers all kinds of natural conveniences. L...
- 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
Here's a question for you aspiring ornithologists out there. Why does the Spoon-billed Sandpiper have a spoon-shaped bill?
- Added: Mar 29, 2008
- Length: 01:32
For over 200,000 years, the Iriomote Cat lived in isolation on a tiny island between Taiwan and Japan. More recently, however, Iriomote Island has...
- Added: Mar 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
These days, Americans are driving three times as many miles per capita as they did in 1980. Not only are longer commutes driving us crazy, they're...
- Added: Mar 27, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Why can't members of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization sleep at night? They're counting fish instead of sheep.
- Added: Mar 26, 2008
- Length: 01:32
In 2007, seven rare silverback mountain gorillas were shot and killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park in three differen...
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- Added: Feb 28, 2008
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Remember Pete Seeger's song, "Where have all the flowers gone?" He blamed their disappearance on young girls picking them.But with eight thousand f...
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- Added: Feb 28, 2008
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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...
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- Added: Feb 27, 2008
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There's now a shortcut between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, courtesy of climate change.
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- Added: Feb 27, 2008
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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.
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- Added: Feb 27, 2008
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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
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