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In Monarch Butterflies, Scientists Find Link Between Migration and Disease
As many as 2 billion monarch butterflies migrate every year to winter in Mexico.Scientists from the University of Georgia capture and collect these butterflies and, by rigging them to a flying...
View ArticleIn Colo., Drought and Wind Fuel Summer of Fire
Listen to the AudioAlmost a week after the High Park wildfire began west of Fort Collins, Colo., the flames still rage out of control. Meanwhile, in New Mexico, fires have burned almost 60 square...
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10 Questions with Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales
Updated July 10 | When Wikipedia formally launched on Jan. 15, 2001, creators Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger hoped to create over 100,000 articles. Today, Wikipedia has more than 22 million articles in...
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Ray Kurweil's Immortality Cocktail; And a Student Loan Skeptic
EmbedVideo(3861, 482, 304);Wednesday we feature the second of our interview outtakes with inventor/author/futurist Ray Kurzweil. (Tuesday's installment: the melding of man and machine.) In our...
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Was Your Yahoo! Password Exposed?
News broke late last night that the Yahoo Voices service was hacked, exposing more than 450,000 usernames and passwords. If you'd like to check whether your email address was included we've built this...
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African Cosmos: Stellar Arts
From a gigantic rainbow serpent fashioned out of recycled jerry cans to a painting of girls dancing against a Milky Way backdrop, the Smithsonian's "African Cosmos: Stellar Arts" exhibit examines how...
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Stellar Arts: Astronomy as Muse for African Artists
EmbedVideo(3876, 514, 320);From a gigantic rainbow serpent fashioned out of recycled jerry cans to a painting of girls dancing against a Milky Way backdrop, the exhibit "African Cosmos: Stellar Arts"...
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Ancient Artifacts Signal Mysterious Group of Early Americans
University of Oregon archaeologist Dennis Jenkins holds three ancient tools known as Western Stemmed projectiles from the Paisley Caves in Oregon. Photo by Jim Barlow.It was long thought that the...
View ArticleAn Election on Facebook: Old Media Enters New World
Listen to the AudioDo "likes" on Facebook translate to votes? Howard Kurtz and Lauren Ashburn of Daily-Download.com examine that issue with Ray Suarez and also explore why traditional news outlets are...
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The View from the Volt: Miles Risks Safety While Talking Smart Power
EmbedVideo(3888, 482, 304);Last week, a powerful "derecho" storm hammered the mid-Atlantic region, snuffing out power during the peak of a sweltering heat wave for nearly a week in some homes. Days...
View ArticleIn Austin, Charged up About Smart Power
Listen to the AudioMiles O'Brien examines power grid reliability in a neighborhood near Austin, Texas that uses "smart grid" technology to track - and control - its energy consumption. JUDY WOODRUFF:...
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Climate Change Threatens The Tribe From 'Twilight'
Washington's Quileute tribe, thrust into the spotlight by the "Twilight" series,' has been in a struggle to reclaim land threatened by floods and sea level rise. Together with KCTS9 and EarthFix,...
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Coping with Climate Change: Washington's Tribes
Washington's Quileute tribe, thrust into the spotlight by the "Twilight" series,' has been struggling to reclaim land threatened by floods and sea level rise. Together with KCTS9 and EarthFix, NewsHour...
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Researchers Consider Graphene as a Cure for Desalination Woes
Saltwater flows into the pre-treatment hall at the Kurnell desalination plant in Sydney, Australia. Photo by Bloomberg via Getty Images.The earth harbors about 1.4 billion cubic kilometers of water....
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Measuring Significant Drought Years
More than half of the continental United States was in moderate to extreme drought in June -- including corn- and soybean-producing states -- damaging crops and impacting prices at the grocery...
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Northwest 'Salmon People' Face Future Without Fish
For Northwest tribes, salmon fishing is a way of life. But changes in the climate may be pushing the fish toward extinction. Together with KCTS9 and EarthFix, NewsHour visited the Swinomish Indian...
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Climate Change Strikes Especially Hard Blow to Native Americans
EmbedVideo(3940, 482, 304);On Thursday's NewsHour, NewsHour correspondent Hari Sreenivasan moderated a panel discussion on how Native American tribes are coping with climate change. The panel included...
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How Smart Are Smart Meters?
For the past few years, activists of various stripes -- environmentalists, liberals, some tea party folks, and others -- have been protesting the installation of smart meters in Northern California...
View ArticleCalifornia Activists Want Smart Meters Banned, Claim They're Bad for Health
Listen to the AudioWithin the next three years, it is expected that nearly 65 million homes in the U.S. will have wireless smart meters. But some California environmentalists, liberals, Tea Party...
View ArticleScaling Up: Vietnamese Fish Farms Search for Eco-Friendly Formula
Until recently, only a tiny fraction of the world's food fish came fromfarms. Today roughly half of it does, and demand is expected to double by2050. In a world hungry for protein, aquaculture is the...
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