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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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Alaska's Black Gold
Item# 40730
© 2007
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DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-289-4
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge-also known as ANWR or the "Alaskan Serengeti"-is a vast wilderness near the top of the world. From here, thousands of caribou begin a pilgrimage to the ocean every...
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Alien Invaders: Invasive Species and the Threat to Biodiversity
Item# 29596
© 1998
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DVD ISBN: 978-1-4213-6181-9
This video explains the problem and its possible solutions through a compelling futuristic drama reminiscent of Hollywood science fiction and packed with solid scientific information. Viewers meet a t...
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Aliens from Planet Earth: The Problem of Invasive Species
Item# 30068
© 2000
25 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-0-7365-4604-1
DVD ISBN: 978-1-4213-0172-3
After direct habitat destruction, nonnative species introduced by humans to new areas pose the largest threat to global biodiversity. This program looks at how scientists and conservationists are copi...
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Amazon: Land of the Flooded Forest
Item# 40736
© 2002
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DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-291-7
When seasonal rains sweep across South America, the Amazon River and its tributaries overflow their banks to create an ecosystem unlike any other-a place where, for six months out of each year, land-d...
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The Amazon River: Pristine and Unprotected
Item# 40145
© 2008
51 Min.
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DVD ISBN: 978-1-60825-499-6
Stretching over 4,000 miles across South America, the Amazon River has long defied human efforts to tame it. Not a single bridge crosses it, and not one dam halts its flow. This program visits urban c...
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The American Pipe Dream: Eliminating Oil Dependence
Item# 41340
© 2009
27 Min.
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DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-635-9
Rocky Mountain Institute founder Amory Lovins, ranked as one of the 2009 Time 100, believes in the plausibility of a U.S. that harnesses automotive and architectural efficiencies to free itself from t...
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The American Wilderness
Item# 5199
© 1991
26 Min.
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Wilderness, this program tells us, is a state of mind, a dream of peace, a return to the primeval world before humans tried to remake nature for their own convenience. But the American wilderness was...
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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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Amphibian Extinction
Item# 40930
© 2008
12 Min.
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DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-572-7
Why are one third of amphibian species threatened by extinction? Hosted by CBC news anchor Kelly Crowe, this program summarizes the major reasons for the near-disappearance of hundreds of types of fro...
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