Few bats for Quebec’s belfries. White-nose syndrome killing North American bats. (0)
5/31/10 •
Photograph by: Nancy Heaslip, New York Department of Environmental Conservation
MONTREAL – In March, Frédérick Lelièvre found himself crawling through a narrow passage into the final chamber of the Laflèche Cave in Val des Monts. Raising his eyes to the hibernating bats on the rock above him, his heart dropped. The tiny lime-size [...]
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CSWA Ottawa conference report: Tools for tomorrow’s science writer (0)
6/10/10 •
At Sunday’s workshop, Tools for Tomorrow’s Today’s Science Writer, four panelists shared their thoughts about online tools, transparency, and better story telling.
It was no surprise to hear that journalism is experiencing a big shift from print to online. But, as Asmaa Malik pointed out, the fundamentals remain the same. We must [...]
Living Machines: Verdant Art-Tech Contraption Descends Upon France (2)
5/27/10 •
Wired June 2010
This spring, a War of the Worlds-scale tripod carrying verdant laboratories on suspended platforms showed up in Nantes in western France. It was just the latest massive art-tech project from street theater company La Machine, which has been startling Europeans with giant robots for more than a decade. [...]
Confronting the biodiversity crisis (1)
5/27/10 •
In 2002, the world’s governments agreed to significantly slow the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010. Time is almost up, and by most accounts they’ve failed. Now that climate change is emerging as one of biodiversity’s greatest threats, scientists are proposing new ways to tackle the crisis. Hannah Hoag reports.
Barcoding life
In July 2009, for the [...]
Q&A with Earth director Alastair Fothergill (0)
4/22/09 •
Polar bears and prophecies from the director of Earth.
Earth, the hotly anticipated new film from Disneynature—in theatres on Earth Day (April 22)—follows three families of mammals. It captures the spectacle of the animal kingdom on the Arctic sea ice, in the tropics and Kalahari Desert, and at the Antarctic’s Southern Ocean. Green Living caught up [...]
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