Posts tagged with ‘waterlife’ (18)
Posted by Michela Rosano
on Thursday, March 22, 2012
Today is world water day and with three bordering oceans, four out five of the Great Lakes and seven percent of the world’s renewable freshwater supply, the wet stuff is Canada’s lifeblood.
Perhaps some of the most disputed water resources in our country, the Great Lakes have been “polluted”, “cleaned up” and “polluted” again more times than you can shake a stick at. Need proof? Here’s a Great Lakes clean-up story from the December/January 1990-91 issue of Canadian Geographic.
There are 42 Areas ...
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Photo: flickr/VicBurolla and all that improbable blue
Songs can be used to woo lovers, to change the world or just to entertain. In these pursuits, musicians often write tunes that are similar to other successful songs.
Humpback whales, it has been discovered, take a similar tact.
According to a study reported online last month in the journal Current Biology , at any given time within a population, male humpbacks all sing the same mating tune.
"Our findings reveal cultural change on a vast scale," says Ellen Garland, a graduate student at ...
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Posted by Kelly Greig
on Monday, March 28, 2011
Photo: The 5th Ape/flickr
Forget green, going blue is the new trend. Early last week Burnaby B.C. was dubbed Canada’s first 'blue community' for promoting public water and waste water services, recognizing water as a human right and banning or phasing out bottled water at municipal events.
While this award is a pat on the back from the Council of Canadians, it fails to mention a major concern - water consumption.
"While we encourage water conservation and reduced consumption, really our minds the major threat to water ...
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Posted by Adam Shoalts
on Friday, February 11, 2011
Photo: mtarlock/flickr
It seemed like the plot of a horror movie. In a singe day last December, four tourists were attacked by a shark in the warm waters off Egypt’s Red Sea coast, a popular tourist getaway. Three of the four victims were severely injured. The attacks terrorized the coast, drove tourists away, and made authorities desperate to kill the offending shark and declare the waters safe. In short order, two different sharks, one an oceanic whitetip and the other a mako, were hunted down and killed. But then, ...
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Posted by Graham Lanktree
on Wednesday, February 02, 2011
First Nations and Métis people collected buffalo bones and brought them to train stations such as this one at Moose Jaw, Sask. They received five cents a ton for their efforts.
The prairies were littered with the skulls of bison during the waning days of the Buffalo hunt. There had been, at a time, some 50 to 60 million of the woolly beasts roaming the plains of North America. Even in the 1870s there were reports of herds that would take days to pass. Yet by the early 1880s the prairie bison were on the brink of extinction.Sketch by John Mix Stanley showing buffalo on the plains
In Canada, roughly 1,000 buffalo were left, most held in small herds on private land. There ...
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