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The forests of America face double jeopardy these days, both pressure to harvest wood from native forests and invasive species taking over those na...
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
In 1966, Thomas Brock of Indiana University discovered life forms that thrive in the near-boiling temperatures of Yellowstone's hot springs and gey...
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Face it. We're energy junkies -- and our fix is getting more expensive.
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
While hydrogen is being touted as the environmentally friendly fuel of the future, a pair of Penn State engineers believe the future may be closer ...
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Maybe there's hope for troublemakers. Some creatures thrive in hot water...
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
We've all heard of "homeland security." But what's "biosecurity"?
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Researchers from the College of Forestry at Oregon State University recently received a Presidential citation for developing an environmentally fri...
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:30
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
Can we really harness ocean waves to make electricity? We might actually do more.
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Are hurricanes good for anything? Maybe. Katrina and Rita devastated hundreds of square miles in the Louisiana and Mississippi lowlands. But it tur...
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
It started off routinely enough -- at least in this day and age of genetic engineering and other laboratory efforts to "improve" upon nature.
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
The ethanol experts are at it again. Scientists in Brazil have found a way to boost biofuel production that's naturally more attractive.
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
An unusual banquet is underway in North Carolina -- and the worms are going hog wild.
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Most of us have heard that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, and a major contributor to global warming...is there a way to capture the carbon bef...
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:26
Vibrantly colored fish darting among bright-red bubblegum coral. That's what scientists saw when they discovered cold-water coral gardens in the Gu...
- 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
- Length: 01:30
Between rampant pollution and climate change, scientists say our oceans are ailing. But in order to correctly diagnose it, they've concluded they ...
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Beavers -- those buck-toothed, furry creatures we used to make into hats -- are pretty amazing builders. They craft dams more than 2000 feet long ...
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:08
Together with Sandia National Labs, engineers from Knight and Carver of San Diego have added a new twist to wind turbines used for generating elect...
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:17
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
Cheetahs are fast, but time is catching up with them. Their numbers are dwindling due to a small gene pool that makes these graceful Big Cats vulne...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Veterinarians made a house call on the world's rarest cat recently to give it a high-tech medical examination. It was one of thirty Amur leopards b...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Generations of kids did their Huckleberry Finn thing down by the Ashtabula, which means "river of many fish" in the Iroquois language. It once tee...
- 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
The common reed looks harmless as it waves in the wind of America's wetlands. But, this exotic plant is one of nature's most effective invasive sp...
- Added: Apr 29, 2008
- Length: 01:32
