Isla Earth
- Find A Station Near You
- Catalina Special
- Interactive Eco-Puzzles
- Photo Galleries
- Read E-Digests
- About Us
- Sponsors & Partners
Signup for E-Digest
Enter Your Email:
Catalina Island
Conservancy
Sponsored Links
Search Radio Shows
March 2010
- Project Open Hand - March 11, 2010
- San Francisco's Project Open Hand is in a lot of hot water these days. About 170,000 gallons a year, to be exact. And it's heated by clean, non-polluting energy. The organization is a non-profit that provides meals for the homebound and elderl...
- Virus Battery - March 10, 2010
- The environmentally polite thing to do in the future might be to give your battery the flu. That's right: Batteries may soon run on a virus. Researchers at MIT developed the battery. It's so cool, that the president of MIT showed off...
- A Place for DDT - March 9, 2010
- For many who are environmentally-minded, the mere mention of DDT sets them on edge. After all, it disrupted ecosystems around the globe crashing bird populations and nearly eliminating our national symbol -- the bald eagle -- from wild places includi...
- Humboldt Invasion - March 8, 2010
- You've heard about following your bliss. Well, here's a creature that's simply following dinner. The Humboldt is a large squid sometimes called the "red devil" by fishermen in the Gulf of California because of its reddish skin and aggressive pred...
- Green Mobiles - March 5, 2010
- One architecture professor is giving trailer parks a good name. Michael Berk of Mississippi State University has developed award-winning mobile homes so structurally sound and energy-efficient that they could potentially increase in value. They're eq...
- Caribbean Reef Balancing Act - March 4, 2010
- The parrot fish with its colorful, multi-patterned designs and parrot-like beak is credited with being the sandmaker of the sea -- perfectly suited to crushing and eating coral. Parrot fish don't set out to eat coral. Their sharp beaks pulverize ...
- Hydrogen Storage - March 3, 2010
- Gassing up new family cars with green, clean hydrogen is edging closer to reality. Case in point: Researchers at Purdue University, working with General Motors, recently tackled one of the trickier challenges to making a mass-market hydrogen car. ...
- Reef Cleaner - March 2, 2010
- Holy algae, batfish, we need you to clean up that reef! When researchers wanted to know what fish on Australia's Great Barrier Reef was best at removing algae that can kill coral reefs, they got a surprise. A rare, pancake-shaped fish called th...
February 2010
- Golden Rule: Recycle - February 26, 2010
- Who's more environmentally responsible? Seniors? Young Adults? Men? Women? When it comes to recycling glass at least, a recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Granada observed that housewives are more likely to do it than u...
