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  Siccar Point: The Birthplace of Modern Geology – British Geological Survey

  August 19, 2018 at 8:56 pm / Global Patterns, Video

  The World was a rather different place in the late 18th century. A great majority of people in the West believed the Earth was not older than 6,000 years old. Rocks were formed immediately after the Biblical flood of Noah. Fossils were simply the remains of animals that had died in the flood. Scientific facts that are so obvious to us today such as plate tectonics and continental drift were not connected. For instance, a core tenet is the geological […]

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  REDD+ on the Threshold – Gemma Sethsmith (2011)

  August 3, 2018 at 8:44 am / Ecological Documentaries, Global Patterns, Human Nature, Video

  The promise of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) is fairly straightforward: Forest owners keep their standing vegetation intact and in return get compensated by polluters. There are already established strong protective traditions in some local communities such as the indigenous Mayan cantones in the state of Totonicapán, Guatemala, Kichwa tribe of the Ecuador and many others around the World. REDD+ is an economical model developed by Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) […]

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  The White Pine Weevil’s Life Cycle – Ray Asselin

  August 1, 2018 at 1:43 pm / Natural history, Short Observations, Video, Wildlife Documentaries

  Tree architecture is affected by many factors. Genetics is a major determinant. Hundreds of genes coordinate to determine the stature of a tree. Conifers have strong apical dominance in their growth and plant hormones such as the auxin play a lead role in its maintenance. When the apical dominance is lost due to loss of the apical meristem located at the top of shoot tip the branching pattern of a tree changes. Apical meristem can be lost due to physical […]

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