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Interactive map shows nature’s contributions to people

Published: 10 October 2019

Nature supports people in critical ways, often at a highly local level. A wild bee buzzes through a farm, pollinating vegetables as it goes. Nearby, wetlands remove chemicals from the farm’s runoff...

Mapping international drug use by looking at wastewater

Published: 23 October 2019

Wastewater-based epidemiology is a rapidly developing scientific discipline with the potential for monitoring close to real-time, population-level trends in illicit drug use. By sampling a known...

Expert: Earthquakes

Published: 13 January 2020

Early this morning, an earthquake of 4.0 magnitude, was felt in areas from Rigaud to Montreal to Saint-Bruno, and in parts of eastern Ontario, New York state and Vermont as well. (CBC)...

Cities and their rising impacts on biodiversity - a global overview

Published: 9 December 2019

Cities and their rising impacts on biodiversity versity. To gain a clearer picture of the situation, an international group of scientists, including Professor Andrew Gonzalez from ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ’s Biology...

As rural China rapidly adopts clean energy, use of traditional wood and coal stoves persists

Published: 5 December 2019

Old habits are hard to break. A ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ-led study of replacement of traditional wood and coal burning stoves with clean energy in China suggests that, without a better understanding of the reasons...

Human song is universal

Published: 21 November 2019

Music, including songs with words, appears to be a universal phenomenon according to a paper published this week in Science. An international team of researchers involving musicians, data...

Expert: Are mosquitoes driving you crazy?

Published: 24 July 2019

It is a particularly bad mosquito season in Montreal. "More snow in winter, more floods in spring, you'll get more mosquitoes." (Source: CBC)

Melting ice sheets may cause ‘climate chaos’ according to new modelling

Published: 6 February 2019

The weather these days is wild and will be wilder still within a century. In part, because the water from melting ice sheets off Greenland and in the Antarctic will cause extreme weather and...

When a city feels good, people take more risks

Published: 28 November 2018

What makes people take risks? Not stunt women or formula 1 drivers. Just ordinary people like you and me. Research published this week in PLOS ONE suggests that unexpected improvements in everyday...

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