Listing of Television/Radio Stories

Iridescent green sweat bee
6:10

Spring may be in the air, but our pollinators may not be. The U.S. bee population has declined, especially in urban areas. In the San Francisco Bay Area, there's a new buzz to bring wild, native bees to the urban landscape.

Listen to this Radio Report Air Date: Mar 16 2007

Video Games-- Access for All
6:40

Video games are becoming so popular that last year's sales in the U.S. surpassed movie ticket revenue. The almost 50 million people that are living with a disability in the U.S. are wanting a voice in how the games are designed.

Listen to this Radio Report Air Date: Mar 9 2007

8:00

The Bay Area was home to the last whale hunting fleet in the United States - only a generation ago. Quest investigates how Richmond, California was part of a historic moment, and what remains today.

Listen to this Radio Report Air Date: Mar 2 2007

10:32

Tired of toxic embalming fluid, rain forest wood caskets and other ecologically unfriendly practices, a new generation of undertakers is attempting to green up the funeral industry with burials that go easy on the land.

Watch this TV Story Air Date: Feb 27 2007

4:05

Each year Ladybugs fly in by the millions to winter in the East Bay's Redwood Regional Park. We meet naturalist Linda Yemoto who explains this phenomenon. But how these beetles know where to go is still one of nature's mysteries.

Watch this TV Story Air Date: Feb 27 2007

9:36

State transportation planners have nearly finished designing a high-tech bullet train system that would take passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles in two hours at 220 mph -- faster than a Ferrari. But will California voters pay for it?

Watch this TV Story Air Date: Feb 27 2007

Solar cells
0:07

Silicon Valley investors are betting that clean power is the Valley's next boom. With solar and other alternative energy industries evolving into big business, how are the faces of the environmental movement changing?

Listen to this Radio Report Air Date: Feb 23 2007

California Condor head
10:02

Once nearly extinct, California condors are making a steady recovery. But a new threat-- lead poisoning from old bullets-- is slowing progress, leaving scientists between wildlife preservation and the politics of hunting.

Watch this TV Story Air Date: Feb 20 2007

Mati Waiya, Dolphin dancer and Chumash Indian ceremonial leader
5:20

Mati Waiya, Dolphin dancer and Chumash ceremonial leader, shares the blessing and dance seen briefly in "Condors vs. Lead Bullets," to remind us to never forget to look through the eyes of the ancestors so we can see our future.

Watch this TV Story Air Date: Feb 20 2007

9:00

If you could learn your risk of getting cancer, would you? A San Francisco company now makes it easy to order medical genetic tests through the Web.

Watch this TV Story Air Date: Feb 20 2007

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