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If we gave our coastlines an environmental report card, what grade should they get? Surprise! There IS a report, and it gives our coasts about a gr...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
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What's a significant threat to the survival of captive gorillas? Surprisingly it's heart disease.

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
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Businessman Tom Herlihy has 8 million employees -- 8 million, hungry, little red worms, that is. And keeping this work-force fed is a full-time job.

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  • Added: Jan 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
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If you can't stand the heat…hang in there? That's what some species are doing in response to climate change.

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
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Is it ‘hip,’ or ‘cool,’ to be environmentally sustainable? That's a question that some of the biggest companies are asking about the world's most p...

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
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Which is better? A picture perfect golf course, or a wild and wooly prairie? Well, when it comes to ecosystem health, the more native plants -- the...

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
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Sometimes, creating a preserve can help endangered species fast, like South Africa’s Cape penguins. Until recently, this endangered bird, and the o...

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
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Chicago may be the Windy City, but California may become the wind-powered state.

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
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It’s no news flash that, over the years, one of the dirtiest sources of energy has been coal; in fact, it’s among the top contributors to carbon di...

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
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It's good to know that tomorrow's scientists are solving environmental problems today.

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
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You’ve heard about following your bliss. Well, here’s a creature that’s simply following dinner.

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
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One architecture professor is giving trailer parks a good name. Michael Berk of Mississippi State University has developed award-winning mobile hom...

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
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The hand bone's connected to the wrist bone, the wrist bone's connected to the arm bone, and so on and so on. That was a great campfire song. Turn...

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
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What do you get when you cross folk art with photonic technology? A very bright idea.

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
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Alien mussels are muscling their way into our waterways. And like unwelcome guests, once the move in, they’re almost impossible to move out!

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
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Smile, whale shark, you’re on candid camera -- the high seas version. Whale sharks are truly impressive creatures, growing up to 66 feet long and w...

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
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Alternative fuels are more environmentally friendly than petroleum products, right? Actually, that’s not always the case.

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
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Is that monthly home heating bill burning a hole in your wallet? I thought so. With the economic uncertainties of recent months, we all get that si...

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  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
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It’s stocky and dark brown with a long bushy tail, and fur softer than a mink’s. Meet the Pacific Fisher. This handsome, otter-like critter related...

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  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
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To prepare for climate change, sometimes it’s good to get down to the bare bones. Fish bones, that is.

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  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
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In the early 1980’s, it looked like the Pacific Northwest might lose all its old growth forests to logging. Enter, The Northwest Forest Plan.

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  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
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Reusable cloth grocery bags are popular, but are they really better than paper or plastic?

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  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
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With wind turbine blades approaching 90 feet in length whipping around at 150 miles an hour, they’ve been called everything from “raptor-matics” to...

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  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
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Farming has always been subject to the uncertainties of weather and market conditions. But farmers in Huron County, Michigan, have found something...

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  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
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Giant pandas are about as cute as an animal can get -- and, just as endangered. Population estimates of pandas in the wild range from just 1,600 t...

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  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
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