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On Mimms Ranch outside Marfa, the Dixon Water Foundation is using some surprising tools to improve a grassland’s ability to absorb water: cattle an...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Mar 04, 2011
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Ground sloths weren’t cute, cuddly tree-dwellers like sloths today. They weighed 500 pounds and stood nine-feet tall. Who were these Ice Age creatu...
- Added: Feb 24, 2011
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 2
After an absence of nearly fifty years, black bears have been making a remarkable comeback in Big Bend National Park. Why did they return? And what...
- Added: Feb 18, 2011
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 3
As all hay-fever sufferers will tell you, this has been a bad year for pollen. What's all that pollen good for besides making you miserable?
- Added: Feb 04, 2011
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 2
Without the Dexter National Fish Hatchery and Technology Center, several desert fish species might have disappeared from the Chihuahuan Desert regi...
- Added: Jan 29, 2011
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 2
Every winter, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico hosts a spectacular congregation of snow geese and sandhill cranes. Why do t...
Bought by KUPR low power FM and KENW
- Added: Jan 26, 2011
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 2
When Elephant Mountain gets too crowded with desert bighorn sheep, and it’s time to start a new herd in Big Bend Ranch State Park, how do you move ...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Jan 26, 2011
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
For Mark Johnston, living next door to a trash incinerator stinks.
- Added: Jun 22, 2009
- Length: 06:34
The Book of Life: That book in heaven with the list of names? Well, biologists on earth have started their own version.
- Added: Jun 12, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Chris Martens is alarmed by the global disappearance of corals. To learn more, he lives at the bottom of the ocean on Conch Reef off Key Largo, Flo...
- Added: Jun 11, 2009
- Length: 09:33
Island life evolves in isolation, and complex relationships develop that can make island ecosystems especially dependent on niche species.
- Added: Mar 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Remember mowing your grandparent’s lawn with a push mower? Back then, the older generation had push mowers. Everyone else was into power.
- Added: Mar 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Attention feed lot operators. Panda Energy International in Hereford, Texas, wants your manure. But only the good stuff.
- Added: Mar 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
When the Moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, it’s the environment! At least it is at Pizza Fusion -- a chain of gourmet pizzerias.
- Added: Mar 24, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
The Howland Cultural Center is a beautiful performance space, gallery, and host to cultural events in the Hudson Valley. The historic building rec...
- Added: Mar 09, 2009
- Length: 01:46
Marty Walsh of Boston's Geekhouse Bicycles received $70,000 in state-monitored federal money in November. Geekhouse is thriving, giving listeners ...
Bought by The Neighborhood
- Added: Mar 04, 2009
- Length: 03:36
- Purchases: 1
The world’s rainforests are disappearing at an alarming rate. But conservationists have a new trick that may help restore them. All it takes is so...
- Added: Feb 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
Get in and get out! It works for the Navy Seals. So why not do the same with a crack team of scientists?
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Feb 25, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Followers of fish facts -- especially North Atlantic Cod enthusiasts -- are doing a double-take these days.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Six Flags theme parks staged a Halloween contest in which customers were offered free admission. All they had to do was eat a live Madagascar hissi...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Learning the Birds birdlady Ruth Beasley probes the lore and legend of Four Christmas Birds: doves, cardinals, partridges, and a mystery bird.
Bought by Mississippi Public Broadcasting
- Added: Dec 17, 2008
- Length: 04:29
- Purchases: 1
We all know divorce can be painful for those involved. And now, researchers at the University of Michigan have determined that divorce also hurts t...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Nov 29, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Giant pandas are about as cute as an animal can get -- and, just as endangered.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Nov 29, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Nov 01, 2008
- Length: 09:23
- Purchases: 1
Holy algae, batfish, we need you to clean up that reef! When researchers wanted to know what fish on Australia's Great Barrier Reef was best at rem...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Oct 29, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
