As Canadians experience a year of record-breaking wildfires, floods, and extreme heat, experts are warning that these conditions will persist and likely intensify over the coming decades as we experience the escalating effects of climate change and global warming. These impacts are being felt even more acutely in northern regions of the planet, where temperatures are rising at four times the global rate.
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Published on: 18 Oct 2023
A Solvathon at the Bieler School of Environment, McGill University
Keynote speakers: Kim Stanley Robinson and Annalee Newitz
October 12-13, 2023
Published on: 31 Aug 2023
Here is the video recording of the 2023 Public Lecture.
The Bieler School of Environment presents:
Professor Gernot Wagner
2023 Environment Public Lecture
“Climate Risks, Uncertainties, and Opportunities"
Published on: 23 Aug 2023
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Published on: 14 Dec 2022
The Government of Canada’s Environmental Damages Fund, administered by Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), is investing more than $4 million in three McGill-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.
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Published on: 29 Nov 2022
Former Dean of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and Associate Vice-Principal of McGill University’s Macdonald Campus, 1996-2005, and founding Dean of the McGill School of Environment, 2008, Dr. Deborah Buszard has been appointed to Interim Vice-President and Chancellor at the University of British Columbia.
Read more in the UBC Broadcast
Published on: 6 Oct 2022
In August, documentary filmmaker Alex Pritz, BSc(AgEnvSc)’13 – BSE has released his award-winning National Geographic documentary The Territory which “provides an immersive on-the-ground look at the tireless fight of the Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people against the encroaching deforestation brought by farmers and illegal settlers in the Brazilian Amazon.”
Learn more in Focus on Macdonald
Published on: 6 Oct 2022
McGill undergraduates have a unique opportunity to expand their climate science literacy and acquire tools for taking action to reduce the impacts of the unfolding climate crisis.
Registration is now open to students in every program for FSCI 198: Climate Crisis and Climate Actions, a new undergraduate course featuring a team of multi-disciplinary instructors who will present diverse perspectives on the scientific and social dimensions of climate change.
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- Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
- Faculty of Arts
- Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
- Dept. of Biology
- Dept. of Chemistry
- School of Computer Science
- Faculty of Engineering
- Faculty of Education
- Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS)
- Dept. of Geography
- Faculty of Law
- Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics
- Environment
- Desautels Faculty of Management
- Dept. of Physics
- Dept. of Psychology
- Redpath Museum
- Schulich School of Music
- Faculty of Science
Published on: 14 Jul 2022
How can we help societies achieve more resilient agriculture in the face of geopolitical disturbances and climate change? Why do we continue to propose agricultural systems based on globalized commodity markets as the only way to feed ourselves? Why continue to subsidize models that destroy soil fertility, ecosystems and put our health at risk?
Published on: 20 Jun 2022
In a new study, our team of climate scientists, economists and engineers (including BRE’s Mohammad Reza Alizadeh and Jan F. Adamowski]) found that the poorest parts of the world are likely to be two to five times more exposed to heat waves than richer countries by the 2060s. By the end of the century, the lowest-income quarter of the global population’s heat exposure will almost match that of the entire rest of the world.
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Published on: 18 Feb 2022
In [Bieler School of Environment course] ENVR 401, advanced undergrads team up to conduct research on behalf of actual “clients,” such as not-for-profit organizations, government agencies, and operating units of the University. The students scope out their projects at the start of the fall semester. By the end of the semester, they submit final reports for dissemination to the research community and to the people affected.
Published on: 18 Feb 2022
Grâce au don de Marc Bieler, l’Université McGill peut offrir un meilleur soutien à la recherche en environnement.
« La canneberge est la culture maraîchère la plus écologique qui soit, déclare Marc Bieler. D’une part parce qu’elle est cultivée sur des terres classées impropres à l’agriculture, les sols étant trop humides et acides, et d’autre part parce que la loi nous oblige à conserver à l’état naturel 35 % de la superficie de la ferme. »
Published on: 16 Nov 2021
Congrats to Elena Bennett (NRS/BSE), one of sixteen Canadian sustainability leaders (#Clean16 honourees) named to the Delta Management Group’s 2022 Clean50 list.
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Published on: 27 Sep 2021
“It becomes so easy to do your part when everyone around you is doing their part to live sustainably.”
Hailing from around the world, McGill’s valedictorians are a diverse, multitalented group. When they came to the University, they brought with them their unique backgrounds, passions and ambitions. While they all praise the education they received at McGill, one thing is certain, the University has benefitted just as much for having them as valuable, contributing members of our community.
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Published on: 15 Jun 2021
Follow the journey of environmental scientist and McGill researcher Klara Winkler on the search for bright spots of sustainability at McGill
By Maya Willard-Stepan, Communications Intern, McGill Office of Sustainability
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Published on: 15 Jun 2021
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