Posts for March 2010

Sea Dragon Courtship Dance

Posted by Graham Lanktree on Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Before seeing this video I had no idea that such a creature existed, nevertheless one filled with such character and beauty. The BBC has truly done it again. With amazing footage taken from multiple angles and deft editing, the producers of the new series Life anthropomorphize wildlife in a way that ...

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Gone, Not Forgotten, then...Rediscovered?

Posted by Emma Lehmberg on Wednesday, March 31, 2010

There's a ray of hope for endangered species this week.

Conservationists in the UK recently sighted two species thought to be long extinct on the British isles. The ghost orchid, a subtle, diminutive plant was spotted by botanists and the caddisfly - last sighted more than 100 years ago - was recorded ...

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Into The Unknown: particle collider crosses boundary

Posted by Mathew Klie-Cribb on Tuesday, March 30, 2010

The Large Hadron Collider at the European Centre for Nuclear Research broke a new barrier Tuesday. They snapped particles together at record speeds — 7 tera-electron volts(TeV) — bringing us one step closer to recreating the conditions at the time of the Big Bang.

The point of recreating the Big ...

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Earth Hour 2010

Posted by Ainslie Cruickshank on Monday, March 29, 2010

On Saturday March 27th, 2010, millions of people from around the world turned off their lights as part of the World Wildlife Fund’s global Earth Hour campaign.

In Canada, homes and businesses, along with national monuments such as the CN Tower in Toronto, the Lion’s Gate Bridge in Vancouver and the ...

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The Global Disaster Network

Posted by Emma Lehmberg on Friday, March 26, 2010

Social networking can be all-pervasive: Twitter is used as a credible source in newspapers, Facebook has become the most visited website, and it seems that not a day goes by when an apology is not made via blog (I realize the irony of writing this on a blog, believe me). However, there's a new use ...

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