Science and Technology Resource Guide

For magazine and journal articles, broadcast transcripts, and news stories about the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, see the Oil Spills results at our CPI.Q database which includes Canadian and a range of foreign news sources.  This CBC report gives an overview of how oil spills are cleaned up.

For an introductory article on the science on oil spills, see Oil spills in the electronic Gale Encyclopedia of Science.

The scientific journal Nature has ongoing scientific coverage of the efforts to clean up the spill on The Great Beyond,  their science news blog here.

Finally, Scientific American has an in-depth report on containing and cleaning up the Deepwater disaster on their web site.

Canadian Internet Use Survey

The 2009 Canadian Internet Use Survey, was conducted in November.  More than 23,000 Canadians aged 16 years and over were asked about their Internet use, including shopping, for the previous 12 months. According to Statistics Canada, in 2009, 80% of Canadians aged 16 and older, or 21.7 million people, used the Internet for personal reasons, up from 73% in 2007 when the survey was last conducted.  BC had one of the highest rates of Internet use, at 85% of the population. 

Earthquakes like the recent tragic ones in Haiti and Chile can cause staggering amounts of damage. If you want to understand more about earthquakes and why they happen, the library has many kinds of resources.

Articles about Earthquakes

CPI.Q database - find articles, images, and video clips about earthquakes here