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Acid Rain
Item# 1385
20 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-0-89113-010-9
A history and explanation of the history of acid rain and the dangers posed by industrial carbon and sulfur emanations that interact with airborne moisture to produce acid rain. The program provides c...
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Allan Wilson: Evolutionary
Item# 39548
© 2008
41 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60467-332-6
DVD ISBN: 978-1-60467-333-3
Allan Wilson, a groundbreaking researcher and a lightning rod for controversy, revolutionized science and galvanized the scientific community through his quantitative biochemical approach to the histo...
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Alternative Power Sources and Renewable Energy
Item# 11164
© 1999
22 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-0-7365-2679-1
DVD ISBN: 978-1-4213-6850-4
This program demonstrates how wind turbines, solar cells, hybrid automobiles, and coal gasification plants are beginning to transform the way the world is powered. The U.S. Secretary of Energy, the di...
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Amazonia
Item# 5713
© 1996
28 Min.
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The Amazon, 4,000 miles long, its basin holding two-thirds of all the fresh water on Earth. Even the superlatives are superlative. This program looks at the river basin, the jungle, and the life withi...
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New to Our Collection! American Geography Close-Ups
Item# 40709
© 2006
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-61616-231-3
DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-230-6
Comprising approximately 2 billion acres spread over six time zones, the United States is a living geography laboratory. Introduce students to America's seven geographic regions with this three-part s...
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America's First River: Bill Moyers on the Hudson
Item# 30023
© 2002
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VHS ISBN: 978-0-7365-4568-6
DVD ISBN: 978-0-7365-5905-8
A waterway of ethereal beauty and vast commercial utility, the Hudson River has been both a precious medium for communing with nature and a convenient sewer for industrial waste. Over the course of th...
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America's Rainforest
Item# 8201
© 1992
32 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-0-7365-3360-7
DVD ISBN: 978-0-7365-4991-2
The rainforest of the Pacific Northwest is one of only three remaining temperate rainforests in the world. Viewers gain an appreciation for the delicate nature of the very ecosystem necessary to susta...
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Anaerobic Waste Water Purification
Item# 5107
© 1994
14 Min.
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Soil, air, and water in the Netherlands are heavily polluted, and stringent efforts are being made to clean them up. An example of this is the development of anaerobic waste water purification. Indust...
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The Andes
Item# 5719
© 1996
27 Min.
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This program looks at the 5,000-mile-long mountainous spine that runs down the South American continent and at the many ecosystems it creates: on the western slopes, the Atacama, the driest desert in...
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Antarctica
Item# 1378
26 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-0-89113-065-9
DVD ISBN: 978-1-4213-4050-0
Still largely uncharted, Antarctica is already being used as a garbage dump. This program introduces the geography of this continent and contrasts the beauty of the icescape with the discovery made he...
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