What are the honeybees doing in winter?
Normally when we think of bees, we think spring time, flowers, summer buzzing noises…but what about in winter? Where do the bees go? Honeybees stick out the winter months inside their hive. They group...
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How Do You Cleanup the Ocean? With a Long Arm
Imagine an area roughly 3 times the size of the City of Toronto (2000 km2). Now cover it with ankle deep trash. That’s how much plastic experts estimate is entering our oceans on average...
International Day for Biological Diversity
May 22 is the day designated by the United Nations for celebrating our planet’s precious biodiversity. Biodiversity refers to the number of different species of living things in a habitat, an ecosystem, or the...
Discovering Gemstones - April Edition
Diamond, the quintessential gemstone, is the birthstone for those born in April. The name diamond comes from the word adamant meaning “unbreakable”, likely in reference to its exceptional hardness. Diamond is the hardest known...
How to Build an Iglu (Igloo)
Ever build a snow fort as a kid? Then someone walked on top of it and that was the end of that. Well maybe you should have tried building an igloo. A properly built...
Megalodon: The Largest Shark that Ever Lived
Shark!!!!!! Picture in your mind the largest, scariest shark you know. You probably jump to the great white. In our not so distant past, our oceans were home to a beast so large, it...
