Expert - Air Quality in Delhi

Published: 30 January 2020

Rain lashed parts of Delhi on Tuesday as the air quality remained in the “very poor” category in several areas of the national capital.

February 2 | World Wetlands Day: Fostering global biodiversity and mitigating climate change

Published: 31 January 2020

Though they make up less than 6% of Earth’s surface, wetlands burst with biodiversity and play a key role in cleaning waterways, preventing floods, and sequestering carbon. For World Wetlands Day...

Perpetual predator-prey population cycles

Published: 18 December 2019

How can predators coexist with their prey over long periods without the predators completely depleting the resource that keeps them alive? Experiments performed over a period of 10 years by...

Street network patterns reveal worrying worldwide trend towards urban sprawl

Published: 14 January 2020

New research from McGill University and the University of California, Santa Cruz has found that the local streets of the world’s cities are becoming less connected, a global trend that is driving...

Artificial turf crumb rubber leaches environmental toxins

Published: 25 November 2019

New research spearheaded by scientists at McGill University reports that exposing chicken embryos, a model of higher vertebrate development, to leachate from crumb rubber used for example in...

McGill-led research unravels mystery of how early animals survived ice age

Published: 2 December 2019

How did life survive the most severe ice age? A McGill University-led research team has found the first direct evidence that glacial meltwater provided a crucial lifeline to eukaryotes during...

McGill Board of Governors receives recommendations to decrease carbon footprint of investment portfolio

Published: 3 December 2019

McGill University’s Board of Governors received today recommendations to reduce the overall carbon footprint of the University’s investments, as part of a report from the Committee to Advise on...

McGill University project on zero-carbon metal fuels launches into space

Published: 4 December 2019

Recently, a project testing metal combustion led by the Alternative Fuels Laboratory at McGill University launched on a European Space Agency rocket....

McGill University to decrease carbon intensity of investment portfolio

Published: 5 December 2019

McGill University is moving forward to reduce the overall carbon footprint of its investment portfolio, as part of its ongoing commitment to fighting climate change and its own stewardship role...

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