CBC Quirks and Quarks: The show is back from summer’s break, with lots of summer news.

Published: September 10, 2007, 12:53 pm

Tags: science stories, environment stories

Welcome back, Bob McDonald. He started on Saturday a new season for Canada’s Quirks and Quarks radio program. It includes some summer samplings, such as from a lady who went to a place where seasons hardly change: the dark bottom of the ocean. She used a robotic sub to look at the diverse, colorful fauna a few hundred miles off Halifax and more than a mile down in a steep-walled canyon that is the largest such thing off North America’s east coast. Lots of new species down there, she says. No time to listen to it all, but the whole show is here with MP3 files and things called Ogg files, too.; Pic: A little, curled-up octopus. More images here. Other Science News on the Radio: NPR All Things Considered: Charles Homans (of member station KIAL in Alaska) on the shifting fishing grounds for Haddock (into Russian waters) and suspicion its climate change; ABC (Australia) TheScienceShow with Robyn Williams interviews Richard Dawkins for a Sydney Writers Festival. Dawkins, it

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