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Plants serve a variety of purposes for animals and the environment through respiration and photosynthesis. They also provide us food, shelter and products from the beginning of their life from a seed (edible seeds can be consumed like pumpkin seeds) to their end (decomposers consuming the dead material). When we eat fruits or vegetables weContinue reading “Commercially utilizing plant “waste” to save the environment”

What a peculiar name for a tree, the Araucaria Araucana are not called this because monkeys enjoy spending their time completing puzzle games in the branches of these trees. In fact, monkeys don’t even reside in the region in which these trees are found.  A. Araucana are native to central and southern Chile and westernContinue reading “The Monkey Puzzle Tree”

The advent and development of agriculture was an immensely important leap in the history of Humans as a species. There are different estimates as to exactly when we started farming and producing crops, however all the sources agree that doing so led to a revolution and allowed us to shift our focus from merely gettingContinue reading “Sustainable Agriculture: Returning to Our Roots?”

I can’t count the number of times I have been told by high school teachers about the unreliable source of, Wikipedia and to never use it when citing papers because they are unreliable sources. Since then, I have been going about my academic career always avoiding Wikipedia pages  like the plague; out of fear thatContinue reading “Welcome to the World of Wikipedia”

This blog post will talk about a news article that was written by “The Ecologists” called “People ‘need connection with nature’”. This article talks about how many adults rarely listen to birdsongs or smell wildflowers, and it talks about how 7 out of 10 children never see butterflies or bees. Compared to people who regularlyContinue reading “The Ecologists: Connecting with Nature”

This blog post is going to further expand on the United Nations reports on Climate Change and how its critical to maintain the global temperature at a steady rate to allow fewer negative impacts on ecosystems, biodiversity, food security and more but mainly talk about coral reefs! Throughout this report, it goes in depth aboutContinue reading “United Nations Report: Increasing Temperature levels impacting Ecosystems – Specifically Coral Reefs”

Libraries are great. They’re also old, like, really old. There’s evidence of collections of tablets with text in Assyria reaching as far back as the 7th century BCE, and despite almost three thousand years of progress, the general idea of a library is the same. While we don’t use tablets (at least not the ancientContinue reading “Not Your Typical Library”

I have been at York for a little over four years and never, knew about the hidden cubby-hole, known as the Sound and Moving Library, tucked away in the corner of Scott Library. This discovery was made, thanks to Professor Bazely. After going there on my own, in search for a film to nominate forContinue reading “And The Runner Up Goes To…..FernGully:The Last Rainforest!!”

When you are sitting in front of your favorite meal and your mouth is salivating from the amazing smells that is illumining off your plate, have you ever stopped to wonder about the process that allowed the food to reach your plate? Before, being put onto your plate, food is produced, processed, packaged transported, preparedContinue reading “Sustainable Agriculture: Follow the Green Brick Road”

You have a research paper due and you’ve waited until the last minute to start. Now there is a lot of pressure on you to fill these pages with vast amounts of information and submit it in for marking. But, do you really trust the source from which you got your information from?   Wikipedia:  An onlineContinue reading “Wikipedia – Editing and publishing”