Posts tagged with ‘research’ (71)
Louis-Pascal Rousseau's Touch History will show the development of Quebec City over time. Watch the video below.
“I walk on unexplored ground every day,” explains Louis-Pascal Rousseau. He's referring to the challenges of programming a unique mapping project, but —unintentionally — Rousseau is evoking the very core of his work: an interactive map that will let users walk through time and see Quebec City in ways no one has ever seen it before.
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Hover your mouse on the image above to learn about the boreal forest's biodiversity. (Image courtesy of the Boreal Songbird Initiative and Ducks Unlimited. Click
here to see the original graphic.)
Northern Canada has never been regarded as a biodiversity hotspot, due to the widely-accepted belief that tropical areas contain most of the world’s biodiversity, while concentration dwindles toward the Earth’s poles. However, a new report by the Boreal Songbird Initiative and Ducks Unlimited would like to overhaul that understanding to reflect Canada’s biological clout.
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A team of scientists revived this centuries-old moss from the receding Teardrop Glacier. (Photo courtesy of University of Alberta biologist Catherine La Farge)
Mosses are funny things. Centuries of growth can be snuffed with a simple boot swiped across a rock. Meanwhile, as scientists at the University of Alberta recently discovered, mosses buried beneath a hunk of ice dozens of metres thick for 400 years can come out surprisingly intact.
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A new UN report says we should consider eating more insects, such as grasshoppers. (Photo: Gilles Gonthier)
A visit to Chinatown is never complete without a lengthy search for roasted scorpions or fried ants. A delicacy to some cultures, Canadians largely consider eating bugs to be a weird novelty at best, a repulsive punishment at worst, and usually, an accident that happens while cycling.
The United Nations would like to see that changed. The new report Edible insects:
Future prospects for food and feed security makes the case for widespread (intentional) consumption of the crawling, the flying and the wriggling.
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Arctic Ocean Acidification (2013) - Short (3 minute) version from AMAP on Vimeo.
As if the Arctic didn’t have enough to worry about. In addition to diminishing sea ice, pollution and rising temperatures, scientists are now warning of the widespread effects that ocean acidification could have on the North.
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