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Discover the natural wonders of Earth
on over 400 radio stations nationwide
wonders
Energy Efficiency of Condors
106 miles, 5 hours, zero flaps
Fireflies Flash
a message of love
South Pole Sleepover
a long, long, long, cold night…
Disappearing Rainbows
and pots of gold
Not a Creature Was Stirring
Hibernation is deeper than sleep
Space-Rock Shooting Stars
December's Geminids light show
Driftless Oasis
An ancient place the glaciers missed
Long-Haul Godwit
Traversing the globe for an endless summer
Super-Sniffers
Science dogs at work
Cold Lightning
Triboluminescence in your house, from rocks and candy
Death Valley’s Slithering Stones
Their secrets revealed
Topping Off Everest
It just got taller
Ocean Giants
Kelp forests are the sequoias of the seas
A Really Odd Mammal
The fluorescent platypus
The Deepest Dive
Exploring the Challenger Deep
The Deepest Deep
Earth’s lowest point
Why Fish Don’t Freeze
They have antifreeze in their veins
Wondrous Waterfalls
Cascades on land and in the sea
Death Apples in Paradise
Totally toxic tropical tree
Creepy Corpse Flowers
Smell like dead bodies
Anoles Get a Grip
Evolving for stickiness
Hanging with Geckos
They cling at the atomic level
Equinox Alignments
Ancient architecture marks the day
The Buzzy Life of HoneyBees
The social structure of the hive
Finding Faults with the Inca
The key to building Machu Picchu
Ultra-Black
Is the new black
Pando - A Forest of One
Protecting an ailing giant
Making the Great Lakes
Glaciers followed the geology
The Amazing Monarch Relay
A multigenerational survival marathon
Plight of the Pangolin
Earth’s most trafficked black-market species
The Miracles of Reindeer
…at Christmas and all year long
Earth’s Loneliest Species
…is also one of the most unusual
Last Branch on the Family Tree
It’s lonely out here…
Why Pines Are Evergreen
Staying green through winter
Salmon Are Born to Navigate
Their miraculous journey
Carving a Canyon
Creating a natural wonder
Green Iceland/Icy Greenland
Why the mix-up?
Magnetoreception
What if you had an internal compass?
The Man and the Canyon
A Canyon Grand
Devils Tower
AKA Bear Lodge
Under Pressure—Geysers
One of nature’s rarest spectacles
Total Eclipse of the Sun—8/21/17
A natural wonder
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