Humpback whales make a comeback

Humback whales have been endangerd for along time, people have harshly killed them for many reasons one being their blubber. As threatend species they have made a surprisingly made a remakable comback in the West cost of Canada. In the north pacific they have doubled in the last two years the amount of whale s is 20,000.

Jackie Hildering is a whale studier in Boughton Archipelago off trhe northcost of Vancouver Island. She has been watching the whales and noticed that over the past years she has never seen so many whales, she has seen over 50 whales. She also said that she is very happy to see the whales come back so fast and in a big amount.

Jay Barlow, a scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration he has also been watching the whales and has seen the same thing as Jackie but he is questioning if the whales are going to last. He said they have manage to stay away from being hunted but know they have to deal with natural changes. Like the climate change that will change the temperature of the water that the whales may or may not be able to adapte to. Also with water changE that also affects the other animals so that could limite their food supplies.

For a long time people have been trying to protect the humpback whales and even though they have made a big comeback we just have to wait to see how long it last.


1) Do you think that the whales will stay for a long time or not?

2) Do you think the climate will have an affecte on the whales were it gets to the point whan they can no longer survive?





Emily Norris

NATURAL DISASTERS!!!!!!

A natural disaster is the effect of a natural hazard, that effects the enviroment and leads to financial, enciromelntal, and human losses. There are alot of different types of disasters, like earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, etc. The largest canadian disaster was in 1998

Natural disasters are stuff that fear is made of.We can prepare for them, but we cant prevent them, we can anticpate them, but we cant accurately predict them. Natural disasters let us know that the planet is in charge.

I think that natural disasters cant be stopped, but if they could they should be.... natural disasters do no good to anyone, they harm people, their homes, land and so much more. I think its great how people are taking the time in raising money fot the disasters!!

I have a couple questions that i have that would be interesting to know....

1. If you were a natural disaster what kind of disaster would you be and why?

2.What would you do if you were in a situation that you had to prepare, what would be the first thing you bring, and where would you go?

Champagne Bubbles Liberate Flavor Compounds

A team of Europeans finds that the bubbles in
sparkling wine drag compounds that active smell
receptors to the surface of the sparkling wine and
then shoot them upward where a taster can easly
encounter them.
The thing is, when the bubble burst the consentrate surface
active compounds are thrown several cm into the headspace,
where they can meet a taster notril's.

1-What do you think about this article?
I think this is not very important compared with others articles but
in this article you have to think about it because is not that easy, how
to know about this, you have to think.

2-how did the smell cames out the drink?

A brain-boosting video game

WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Three Canadian researches scanned the brains of fifteen teenagers girls (12-15 years) who play Tetris (a video game where you need to organize blocks).
After three months, their grey-matter (wrinkly misture of brain cells and blood vessels reponsible for processing information in the brain) was thicker and some of it was on the top of the brain.
After discovering that, the researches scanned brains of 11 year olds who didn't play and compared them. Turns out the grey-matter of the 11 year old wasn't thicker, because they weren't playing.
The researches didn't know if it was a good thing and if it is a positive thing for the brain.

WHAT DO I THINK ABOUT IT?
I really thought this article was pretty cool and very unusual. What caught my attention the most was the fact that girls played and where "studied", not boys.

QUESTIONS
1)So, I would like to know what you think about the article.
2)Do you think that, in a way, it desenvolves your brain?
3)Do you think it is a good thing or a bad thing?

By Fernanda P.