PCB contamination in Icelandic orcas: a matter of diet

Published: 6 May 2021

Image caption: These killer whales may appear healthy, but a new study has found extremely high levels of PCB contamination in some of the whales. There was a 300-fold difference between the levels...

There is no one-size-fits-all road to sustainability on “Patchwork Earth”

Published: 22 February 2021

In a world as diverse as our own, the journey towards a sustainable future will look different depending on where in the world we live, according to a recent paper published in One Earth and led by...

Well-built muscles underlie athletic performance in birds

Published: 15 January 2021

Muscle structure and body size predict the athletic performance of Olympic athletes, such as sprinters. The same, it appears, is true of wild seabirds that can commute hundreds of kilometres a day...

Expert: World Migratory Bird Day | May 9

Published: 5 May 2020

World Migratory Bird Day is May 9. The Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), the African-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement (AEWA) and Environment for the Americas (EFTA) have joined forces to...

PhD Oral Defense: Factors Influencing Behavioural Variation in Apple Orchard Populations of the Jumping Spider Eris militaris (Araneae: Salticidae)

Monday, March 17, 2014 09:45

PhD Oral Defense of Raphaël Royauté, Department of Natural Resource Sciences21111 Lakeshore Road, St Anne de Bellevue, QC, H9X 3V9, CA/macdonaldCategory: Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental...

Exploring the ecological drivers of terrestrial carbon cycling

Monday, April 24, 2017 10:30

The Department of Natural Resource Sciences invites you to a Special Seminar by Tom Crowther, Marie Curie Fellow, Netherlands Institute of Ecology21111 Lakeshore Road, St Anne de Bellevue, QC, H9X...

Flameproof falcons and hawks

Published: 22 April 2015

A Cooper’s hawk, found in Greater Vancouver, is the most polluted wild bird that has been found anywhere in the world.

Seeds of a Good Anthropocene

Published: 7 October 2016

Elena M. Bennett of the Department of Natural Resource Sciences is the lead author of Bright Spots: seeds of a good Anthropocene. "The paper describes an effort to identify and propagate social and...

Fighting new viruses: should we make some mosquitoes extinct? (Nov. 23)

Published: 21 November 2016

Chris Cloutier will tackle the controversial issue of mosquito eradication November 23 at 7:00 PM during a Food for thought talk at Macdonald Campus.

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