Richard Zurawski

It is a a lucky coincidence that one of my favourite places in all the world happens to be in our back yard. Its called Joggins and its on the extreme eastern edge of the Bay of Fundy. This is a place where water and land come together in a perfect confluence for fossil hunters. [...]

In the past year we have had a veritable revolution in thinking and public attitude towards climate change. On the surface of it, it probably began with the Al Gore film, but on further reflection, there seems to have been a ground swell of people, who, to reference the venerable movie, Network, starring Faye Dunaway [...]

Its hard to escape the news these day, of the conflagration of Southern California, fanned by the roaring Santa Anna Winds. It seems that if celebrity homes and life styles are threatened then there is no shortage of coverage and news. We get it all, from pronouncements of aid to flaming castles to satellite plumes. [...]

In all the world, there is probably no more prestigious award that we have, a recognition of achievement and innovation of the best and brightest who see and have seen further than the rest of us. This year Al Gore shared in the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to publicize the need to stem [...]

In the course of my Friday Science Files with Andrew Krystal I often touch upon the risks that we as a species are faced with, the things that threaten our survival. It is a fact that 99.9 per cent of all the species that have ever existed in the past roughly four-billion years of life [...]

One of the most popular topics that Andrew and I do on the Friday Science Files is space travel. It seems to resonate with just about everyone and every time we cover the topic we get a fabulous response. Space travel and getting into orbit or to the moon or to the next planet and [...]

Once you find a good topic its hard to let it go, so again I will stay on the topic of Oxygen. Its hard to say too much about a good thing and definitely Oxygen falls into that category. Oxygen is a good thing if you are have an aerobic metabolism. If you are an [...]

Take a deep breath. Feels good doesn’t it? No matter where you are on the face of the Earth you can always fill your lungs with life giving, sustaining, wonderful air. And the stuff that feels so good in each breath is oxygen. In fact, it is the second most common gas in the atmosphere. [...]

Of late there seems to have been a lot of ink splashed on the pages of our newspapers about how the Arctic ice is disappearing, how the Gulf Stream is slowing, how typhoons, cyclones and hurricanes are spinning destruction at accelerated rates, and the spectacular drought in Australia reaches one in a thousand year frequency. [...]

I went for a walk in the Maritime wilderness this past weekend with a friend from out of town, my wife and our two crazy border collies, Patch and Toby. It was in the wonderful Maritime fall sunshine that we found a small lake nestled in the countryside, a rock crest overlooking the lake to [...]