Sep 1st, 2005 · Engineers trying to get the flood water out of New Orleans face many challenges in their task. Communication is a major problem. So is transportation. The Army Corps of Engineers needs to build crude roads just to get workers to the breached sections of the levee system.
May 19th, 2005 · Old bones are big business. In conditions that range from trying to perilous, fossil hunters cross the globe in search of mammoth tusks and trilobites. Collectors from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History to Charlie Sheen compete to acquire the most appealing specimens. But it's not all adventure and intrigue: There's also an intense ideological battle over the ethics of selling a natural resource.
Apr 8th, 2005 · NPR's Madeleine Brand talks to Bruce Lander about the recent discovery of a giant Woolly Mammoth skeleton in a suburb of Los Angeles. Lander is a partner in Paleo Environmental Associates, and his firm has been called in to start excavating the site.