by Bryanna Minchin | Feb 26, 2020 | Environment
The world’s rarest marsupial has expensive taste and was once considered extinct for a century. The Gilbert’s Potoroo (Potorous gilbertii) is a small elusive rat-kangaroo (Potoroidae) that was named after the English naturalist John Gilbert, who was the first to...
by Briana Diopenes | Feb 5, 2020 | Environment
Introduction Many of us are familiar with atmospheric heatwaves that often occur during the summer months; a period of unusually high temperatures that persists for three or more days. Just as we experience heatwaves on land, the ocean is susceptible to an extreme...
by Briana Diopenes | Jan 6, 2020 | Environment
Our Earth and the environment had been one of the most talked-about topics of 2019 with much of the environmental impacts being the focus of these discussions. Early last year, thousands of fires burned over 7,200 square miles of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, home...
by Samantha Mickan | Dec 20, 2019 | Environment
New Year’s Eve is fast approaching, which will mark the end of 2019 and gives us all a fresh year to start on our new resolutions, or recycle last years if you didn’t quite get to them all. But other than recycling your resolutions, what else could you do to celebrate...
by Rafael Louzeiro | Dec 12, 2019 | Environment
Austracantha minax is commonly known as the Jewel spider or the Christmas spider. Other common names for the species include “six-spined spiders” and “spiny spiders” in reference to the spine-like projections on their abdomens, that makes them...
by Merryln Mpofu | Nov 21, 2019 | Environment
Throughout history, natural changes in the environment have contributed to the extinction of flora and fauna. However, disturbances created by humans is amplifying natural extinction rates reducing plant and animal populations worldwide. As a result, it is...
