Showing posts with label species. Show all posts
Showing posts with label species. Show all posts

Thursday, July 9, 2015

Catching Up with Iconic American Wildlife

If you are like me, most vacations include chance sightings of many of America's best loved animals. My last trip to Yellowstone included, buffalo, numerous raptors, and even a cheeky coyote who trotted along the side of the rode at roughly the same speed as our car in the summer tourist traffic. 

Many of these favorites and others are compiled in a list by science and wildlife writer, Matt Miller (of The Nature Conservancy blog), here. The listing also provides updates of numbers, endangered status and overall health of the different species.

Go science!

Monday, June 10, 2013

The Tiny World of Sand

The world at the nanoscale is so interesting. It never ceases to amaze me. I recently came across several TED videos on nano and other small members of our planet. Check out the variety of life in our unseen world. The biological and geological record of life on this planet is all there. It will change the way you think of materials, physics, and even environmentalism. This video shows many components within sand (even sand on the moon). Amazing.