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The loss of air traffic controllers upset over their working conditions is a major reason airlines are consistently operating behind schedule and f...
- Added: Dec 13, 2007
- Length: 03:08
Sea turtles have been around for more than a hundred million years, so you'd have to call them survivors. But sea turtles may have met their match...
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- Added: Nov 19, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
Who's next? The Iberian lynx? Arctic fox? European mink? According to the recent European Mammal Assessment Report, these critically endangered spe...
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- Added: Nov 19, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
Speedos -- those tight, very brief bikini swimsuits -- may not be ideal for every male physique. And they're a fashion disaster for dolphins.
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- Added: Nov 15, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
In more and more places, non-native plants are upsetting the balance of nature by replacing native plant species.
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- Added: Nov 15, 2007
- Length: 01:28
- Purchases: 1
Like a giant toilet bowl that won't flush, an area twice the size of Texas swirls in the sea near Hawaii and draws in floating trash from a much la...
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- Added: Nov 13, 2007
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
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
A Canadian company is considering dredging up gold and copper off the coast of New Guinea...that could be just as bad as strip mining on land.
- Added: Nov 12, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Nov 09, 2007
- Length: 05:11
- Purchases: 1
During one three hour period last September, volunteers collected more than seven million pounds of shoreline trash around the world.
- Added: Oct 29, 2007
- Length: 01:30
The world's largest living carnivore is skating on thin ice these days. With global warming firmly taking hold, the shelves of ice that polar bears...
- Added: Oct 29, 2007
- Length: 01:32
This Story is Free! Martin Bell, former BBC Correspondent, reports on the situation of children in Afghanistan. In this piece he discusses the pli...
- Added: Oct 25, 2007
- Length: 03:59
Court Sentences Argentinean Priest to Life in Prison for Genocide(3:24)
- Added: Oct 11, 2007
- Length: 03:47
- Added: Aug 30, 2007
- Length: 15:00
Retirees move to Las Vegas and become addicted to gambling
- Added: Aug 28, 2007
- Length: 05:15
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...
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- Added: Aug 27, 2007
- Length: 01:13
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Aug 04, 2007
- Length: 13:32
Ocean dead zones. Air and water pollution worldwide. All this bad news is enough to cause "Eco-phobia."
- Added: Jul 27, 2007
- Length: 01:32
The toll that war takes on human life and property is widely known. But we don't hear much about the devastating effects war has on wildlife and wi...
- Added: Jul 27, 2007
- Length: 01:32
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
While telecommunications can keep us informed, the towers needed can pose a problem to birds.
- Added: Jul 26, 2007
- Length: 01:23
Since we're using more corn for ethanol, are we gonna run out of corn for popping?
- Added: Jun 26, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Alarming trends in school lunch outsourcing and a lack of home cookng has caused deep concern for the future of New Orleans culinary traditions.
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- Added: May 17, 2007
- Length: 05:56
- Purchases: 1
This Story is free! Haiti's domestic workers are mostly children and hundreds of thousands of them work unpaid and isolated. this is the story of...
- Added: Apr 20, 2007
- Length: 04:00
