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Greening the Urban Jungle

Air/Publish Date: 02/03/2010
Event Date: 02/03/2010

Environmental activist Majora Carter led the transformation of a blighted 11-mile stretch of the South Bronx into a waterfront greenway, and is now applying her model of community change nationally, beginning in Detroit.

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Ecotourism in Costa Rica

Air/Publish Date: 09/28/2008
Event Date: 09/28/2008

Costa Rica, where tourism is the number one industry, is working to create "green" resorts, powered by water and methane from animal waste, and designed to conserve the rainforests.

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Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai's Green Belt Movement To Plant Two Billion Trees

Air/Publish Date: 11/24/2007
Event Date: 11/24/2007

Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai's Green Belt Movement plans to plant two billion trees worldwide by the end of 2008, to help reduce greenhouse gases.

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EPA Issues Report on Dirty Beaches

Air/Publish Date: 07/03/2006
Event Date: 07/03/2006

An Environmental Protection Agency report finds more than a quarter of the 4,000 beaches sampled are dirty enough to warrant warnings or closure. NBC's Michelle Kosinski looks at the causes and consequences of poor water quality ...

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As Brazil Grows, the Amazon Rainforest Shrinks

Air/Publish Date: 06/19/2005
Event Date: 06/19/2005

This 2005 CNBC report on the fast-disappearing Amazon rainforest documents pressure put on this rich ecosystem by development as Brazil grows its economy. Twenty percent of the Amazon has already disappeared.

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Wash-Out: Sandy Beaches All Along U.S. Coastline Are Eroding

Air/Publish Date: 07/10/1998
Event Date: 07/10/1998

In 1999, 80-90 percent of the sandy beaches along the 12,000-mile U.S. coastline are eroding, as ocean waves washing sand out to sea. Sand is not replenished from inland waterways, many of which ...

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New Gold Rush: Search for Microscopic Gold Flecks

Air/Publish Date: 09/27/1997
Event Date: 09/27/1997

There's a new gold rush in the American west: a search by high-tech prospectors for microscopic specks of gold in surface and underground rocks.

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Waterfront Dwellers Put Houses on Stilts, Shore Up Beaches to Slow Erosion

Air/Publish Date: 05/31/1993
Event Date: 05/31/1993

Introduced by a report on beach erosion in 1993, a researcher from the Laboratory for Coastal Research, live from a beach in North Carolina, outlines the causes of and remedies for shoreline ...

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Montana's "Civil War" Over Wilderness Acres: Preserve or Develop?

Air/Publish Date: 07/21/1992
Event Date: 07/21/1992

In 1992, citizens in Montana are divided over whether to set aside and protect, or mine, log and develop six million acres of untouched wilderness -- mountains, valleys, streams and grasslands.

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Wetland Protection Rollbacks

Air/Publish Date: 08/09/1991
Event Date: 08/09/1991

The Bush administration opens millions of acres of wetlands to development.

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"Biopolitics" At a Peak: Build Observatory or Protect the Red Squirrel?

Air/Publish Date: 04/15/1990
Event Date: 04/15/1990

In 1990, astonomers plan to build an observatory atop Arizona's Mount Graham, but environmentalists want to protect the mountain's endangered red squirrel. (The observatory opened in 2004.)

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Biocontrol: Killing Pests With Bacteria and Fungus, Not Chemicals

Air/Publish Date: 01/03/1990
Event Date: 01/03/1990

In 1990, scientists experiment with "biocontrol": using genetically-engineered viruses, fungus and bacteria instead of chemical pesticides that will kill crop-destroying insects, but not ...

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