In the BBC series "Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life," David Attenborough shares his personal view on Darwin's theory of evolution.
The entire episode is broken into six parts, so be sure to visit YouTube to check them out. As usual, there's stunning nature footage galore, so it's well worth a watch.
Increased aid to developing countries for sustainable fisheries could increase food security worldwide, says a recentarticle in the Feb. 12 issue of Science.
Still, a lack of policy coordination on the issue among nations is threatening seafood supplies, it says.
While the paper looks at trade policies and private incentives as possible options to make the seafood industry more sustainable, it concludes that increased aid for infrastructure in developing countries is the best option, since ...
Recently, photojournalist Brent Foster turned me on to the innovative work of Lucas Oleniuk and Randy Risling over at the Toronto Star.
By taking a series of still photographs and showing them rapidly in sequence, the two have created a style somewhere between animation and video that looks like something you'd see in a zoetrope.
Their subject is equally interesting. Using scraps from a local junkyard in Malawi, Africa, William Kamkwamba harnessed the wind to change the lives of people in his community and in the process became a media sensation, making appearances on programs such as The Daily Show.
National Geographic photographer Andrew Evans has captured something you're not likely to see again - a King Penguin without its tux.
The all-black bird took biologists aback when it showed up on the island of South Georgia near Antarctica. "Wow. That looks so bizarre I can't even believe it. Wow," said biologist Dr. Allan Baker of the University of Toronto.
Read the full story to find out what caused this one in a zillion mutation.
