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Prof. Christopher Buddle: Mosquitos thriving in Quebec thanks to summer rainfall

Published: 9 September 2024

Professor Christopher Buddle, an entomologist in ۲ݮƵ’s Department of Natural Resource Sciences whose research focuses on the biodiversity of insects and spiders, told the Montreal Gazette that...

Feeding Quebecers—alumni-founded Ferme Coopérative Tourne-Sol is thriving

Published: 27 August 2024

Ferme Coopérative Tourne-Sol, founded by five ۲ݮƵ graduates, supplies fresh, organic produce to about 700 families, and, with its seed business and planning tools, is giving a boost to fellow...

۲ݮƵ students shine at the NAIDC: Progressive Dairy interviews Beatrice Neveu and Connor Velthuis

Published: 23 October 2024

In April 2024, four ۲ݮƵ University students from the Macdonald Campus' Farm Management and Technology (FMT) program participated in the 2024 North American Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge (NAIDC...

Trying to protect agriculture and preserve antibiotics—interview with Prof. Jennifer Ronholm

Published: 9 September 2024

A major issue associated with antimicrobial resistance is the overuse and potential misuse of antibiotics in agriculture.

To remove CO2 from the atmosphere, this former ۲ݮƵ postdoc's startup looks to biomass

Published: 22 July 2024

In 2019, while doing post-doctoral research in ۲ݮƵ's Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Qinhong Cai (better known as Tammy) travelled to Nunavut to join the Oceans Protection Plan, a...

The impact of global warming on fall colors—interview with Prof. Benoît Côté

Published: 23 October 2024

While climate change may not dictate the arrival of Fall colors, it does affect this phenomenon... and its eventual disappearance.

The Jean-Martin Fortier phenomenon

Published: 7 August 2024

In a recent article, L'actualité does a deep dive into small-scale farm enthusiast, author, and star of the popular series Les fermiers Jean-Martin Fortier (BA'02). This "rock-star" of organic...

The little-known—and threatened—orcas of the North Atlantic

Published: 10 September 2024

Anaïs Remili, PhD(AgEnvSc)'23, an ecotoxicologist and postdoctoral researcher, tracks contaminants that threaten the health of North Atlantic orcas. While Pacific orca populations are well studied,...

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