Archive for the ‘Wildlife’ Category

Earthbytes: In New Film, Gulf Residents talk about persistent impacts of oil spill   Leave a comment

Reports and stories about unresolved human and environmental health problems in the Gulf of Mexico continue to find their way to the surface of the daily news rush. Now Robert Redford announces a new film that documents the collective trauma that persists following the BP oil disaster. Read more and see video trailer, related article [...]

Schoolchildren announce bumble-bee breakthrough in top science journal | Science | guardian.co.uk   Leave a comment

A scientific paper published today in the prestigious Royal Society journal Biology Letters reveals that “bumble-bees can use a combination of colour and spatial relationships in deciding which colour of flower to forage from.” This is an exciting discovery that deepens our knowledge of the buff-tailed bumble-bee (Bombus terrestris) and is described in an accompanying [...]

Posted December 22, 2010 by Cathie Bird in environment, Wildlife

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