/macdonald/taxonomy/term/3146/all en /macdonald/channels/news/mcgill-receives-48-million-advance-climate-change-science-and-technology-343905 <p>The Government of Canada’s Environmental Damages Fund, administered by Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), is investing more than $4 million in three UUֱ��-led projects through the Climate Awareness and Action Fund (CAAF).The projects will fill knowledge gaps about the environmental and economic impacts of greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen Canada's capacity to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.</p> Tue, 29 Nov 2022 15:41:21 +0000 valerie.mcleod@mcgill.ca 1063998 at /macdonald /macdonald/channels/news/raising-livestock-sustainably-win-win-solution-climate-change-338475 <p>Veterinarian and<b> </b>Ph.D. candidate (NRS)<b> </b><a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/vivian-arguelles-gonzalez-1304875"><b>Vivian Arguelles Gonzalez</b></a> weighs in on silvopastoralism, an alternative agricultural system that could address the environmental impacts of livestock, and provide farmers with social and economic benefits that include creating new jobs, developing new skills, reducing costs and improving their incomes.</p> Wed, 16 Mar 2022 22:43:19 +0000 valerie.mcleod@mcgill.ca 904678 at /macdonald /macdonald/channels/event/nrs-invited-seminar-series-climate-change-and-source-water-quality-334285 <p>Drinking water systems are vulnerable to events such as floods, droughts and intense storms that wash in contaminants to surface water.</p> Wed, 20 Oct 2021 18:23:17 +0000 valerie.mcleod@mcgill.ca 687866 at /macdonald /macdonald/channels/event/department-natural-resource-sciences-invited-seminar-series-digging-deeper-understand-how-soils-333582 <p>Dr.</p> Wed, 22 Sep 2021 19:40:57 +0000 valerie.mcleod@mcgill.ca 621377 at /macdonald /macdonald/channels/news/narwal-tusks-reveal-mercury-exposure-related-climate-change-330149 <p>“Our research shows that climate change is having substantial impacts on Arctic ecosystems, with consequences for exposure to toxic pollutants like mercury,” says co-author <b>Jean-Pierre Desforges</b>, a Postdoctoral Fellow [NRS] at UUֱ�� under the supervision of <b>Nil Basu</b> [NRS/SHN] and <b>Melissa McKinney</b> [NRS].</p> <p><a href="/newsroom/channels/news/narwal-tusks-reveal-mercury-exposure-related-climate-change-330059" target="_blank"><strong>UUֱ�� Newsroom</strong></a></p> Wed, 31 Mar 2021 14:38:51 +0000 hcrphoto.macdonald@mcgill.ca 448130 at /macdonald /macdonald/channels/event/critical-ecology-defining-socio-biophysical-drivers-anthropogenic-environmental-change-329328 <p>Department of Natural Resource Sciences <strong>Environmental Biology Seminar Series </strong>with guest speaker <strong>Dr. Suzanne Pierr</strong><strong>e, </strong>UC Berkeley, Critical Ecology lab</p> Mon, 08 Mar 2021 13:37:30 +0000 hcrphoto.macdonald@mcgill.ca 423707 at /macdonald /macdonald/channels/news/ecological-insights-three-decades-animal-movement-tracking-across-changing-arctic-325977 <p>[Natural Resource Sciences professor <strong>Kyle Elliott</strong>, Canada Research Chair in Arctic Ecology, and grad students <strong>Allison Patterson</strong> and <strong>Don-Jean Leandri-Breton</strong> are co-authors on this study]</p> Sun, 08 Nov 2020 16:08:22 +0000 hcrphoto.macdonald@mcgill.ca 287265 at /macdonald /macdonald/channels/news/opinion-degradation-quebec-forests-costly-all-325976 <p>[Co-author <strong>Joshua Sterlin</strong> is a PhD student in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences at UUֱ��.]</p> <p>An increase in cutting in Quebec’s public forests would be a mistake for the forests, the industry, the climate and the regions.</p> <p>A recent opinion article in the <em>Montreal Gazette</em> (“Shortfall in forest harvest is costly to economy” Oct. 29) called on governments and logging companies to work together to increase cutting in Quebec.</p> Sun, 08 Nov 2020 15:58:30 +0000 hcrphoto.macdonald@mcgill.ca 287242 at /macdonald /macdonald/channels/event/food-thought-public-lecture-series-lets-talk-about-transformative-change-sustainability-and-building-325306 <p>The annual <a href="/macdonald/events/fft"><strong>Food for Thought Public Lecture Series</strong></a> is entering its 21st season of bringing timely science topics to the community: our neighbours, alumni, students, staff and</p> Tue, 13 Oct 2020 16:43:31 +0000 hcrphoto.macdonald@mcgill.ca 262215 at /macdonald /macdonald/zhiming-qi Wed, 13 Apr 2016 13:25:31 +0000 hcrphoto.macdonald@mcgill.ca 52241 at /macdonald /macdonald/suha-jabaji Thu, 24 Mar 2016 18:45:23 +0000 hcrphoto.macdonald@mcgill.ca 52181 at /macdonald /macdonald/jan-franklin-adamowski Tue, 15 Mar 2016 19:31:19 +0000 hcrphoto.macdonald@mcgill.ca 52119 at /macdonald