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Save the Salmon - it's easier said than done. But today, sophisticated science is being used to preserve their genetic diversity.
- Added: Sep 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 2
There's a bounty on carbon dioxide molecules these days. And for good reason. Too much C02 can create global trouble by trapping heat in our planet...
- Added: Sep 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 2
A genetic map could help save the endangered African elephant.
- Added: Sep 25, 2007
- Length: 01:26
- Purchases: 2
I don't know if Santa Claus ever collected seeds, but one of his neighbors sure does...
- Added: Sep 25, 2007
- Length: 01:21
- Purchases: 2
Have you ever bathed in paint? Canary yellow or baby blue? Well of course you haven't! But almost three million Americans could have...
- Added: Sep 25, 2007
- Length: 01:24
- Purchases: 2
Too much of a good thing. We all know the hazards of that: too much fat, too much beer, too much chocolate...
- Added: Sep 25, 2007
- Length: 01:22
- Purchases: 2
One of the most successful conservation campaigns in history was launched back in the 1970s, when bellbottoms were still in style.
- Added: Sep 25, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Sep 21, 2007
- Length: 05:47
Is "cogeneration" the new way for powering your house and home?
- Added: Sep 21, 2007
- Length: 06:40
Filmmaker Eric Daniel Metzgar talks with P.O.V. about the making of his film "The Chances of the World Changing"
- Added: Sep 14, 2007
- Length: 06:29
No great whites here, but the SF Bay is teeming with 5 species of sharks.
- Added: Aug 31, 2007
- Length: 05:47
Who would've imagined? A wildlife refuge in sight of New York City? Well, believe it! Because, it's the Long Island Sound...
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- Added: Aug 27, 2007
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Batman step aside! You're no match for these polluting villains. Polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, make the Riddler look like a saint.
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- Added: Aug 27, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the biggest polluter of them all? Is it the company with the biggest smoke-stacks? Or, as a recent study suggests...
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- Added: Aug 27, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
Believe it or not, sometimes, it's a good idea to be "as cold as ice." Take, for example, the arctic ground squirrel...
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- Added: Aug 27, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
The African Stenocara beetle has learned a thing or two about water conservation. Living in the Namib desert, it uses its wings to capture water va...
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- Added: Aug 27, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
Just about everyone knows that the world's tropical forests are being ravaged at an alarming rate with millions of acres are lost each year.
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- Added: Aug 27, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
There's no doubt about it: our environmental problems can seem too overwhelming for one person to do anything about. But even our simplest actions ...
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- Added: Aug 27, 2007
- Length: 01:26
- Purchases: 1
So what should you do with your doggie's doo? Your dog Fido probably wishes you'd just leave it in the yard!
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- Added: Aug 27, 2007
- Length: 01:26
- Purchases: 1
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
Who says you have to travel deep into the Amazon or battle surf off the coast of the Aleutian Islands to do some serious birdwatching?
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- Added: Aug 27, 2007
- Length: 01:25
- 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
Is desalination the solution to the California's chronic water woes?
- Added: Aug 17, 2007
- Length: 05:47
Bald Eagles still affected by toxic chemicals.
- Added: Aug 06, 2007
- Length: 05:58
"Thermal depolymerization." No, it's not a code word for 'global warming.' But it IS a big buzz in alternative energy circles.
- Added: Jul 27, 2007
- Length: 01:32
