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July 2009
- Smart Grid - July 3, 2009
- Dutch researcher Jos Meeuwen would like to put in a plug for energy self-sufficiency. In fact, he'd like to put in a plug for everyone in his country. Why? So they can upload and download energy much like information is exchanged on the Internet. ...

- Corporate Trash - July 2, 2009
- Is it 'hip,' or 'cool,' to be environmentally sustainable? That's a question that some of the biggest companies are asking about the world's most popular products and the answer is 'sweet.' Take Dell. It recently held an "ideas com...

June 2009
- Lava Flows are for the Birds - June 30, 2009
- Raising endangered birds...on a volcano? It has benefits -- or, so says Alan Lieberman, head of the Keauhou Bird Conservation Center, perched on Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano. The center is operated by the San Diego Zoo and is part of Hawaii...

- Yangtze River Dead Zone - June 29, 2009
- One of every 15 people in the world relies on China's Yangtze River, the third largest river on Earth. How big is it? Well, people used to say the Yangtze was just too big to poison. Not any more. In fact, scientists say that waste from factories...

- Beaver-style Water Conservation - June 26, 2009
- Beavers -- those buck-toothed, furry creatures we used to make into hats -- are pretty amazing builders. They craft dams more than 2,000 feet long and transform mountain creeks into sizeable ponds. The ponds become valuable wetlands that protect enti...

- Zoo on Ice - June 25, 2009
- A frozen zoo...for all animals? Well, no one's making the Panamanian golden frog shiver in its terrarium. Instead, this is a unique way that the San Diego zoo helps endangered species...by freezing samples of their DNA. Think Noah's Ark -- on i...

- Green Ice Cream - June 24, 2009
- There's nothing like ice cream on a sweltering summer day. And it doesn't much matter whether it's in a cone, a shake, a sundae, or a banana split. There's nothing better -- unless, of course, the ice cream was manufactured in an environmentally con...

- Bee Gone? - June 23, 2009
- A world without honeybees? That won't happen, if scientists solve the mystery of honeybees abandoning their hives. It's called Colony Collapse Disorder and it's a growing problem. Experts theorize it's caused by pesticides, par...

- Global Air Pollution - June 22, 2009
- When it comes to air pollution, every little particulate has a green card. It can just board the next wind current and take a ride to greener pastures. As countries like China and India beef up manufacturing, some of that pollution is going to con...




