On the Earth, for the Earth: Acting together for a cool planet

Wednesday, August 10, 2016 09:15to15:00

Hundreds of 2016 World Social Forum participants will meet to brainstorm new solutions to climate change. This is the wild idea of Henry Mintzberg, internationally renowned management academic.475...

Feeling hot, hot, hot

Published: 25 October 2012

We’re not used to thinking of ourselves as animals. But as Jason Samson sees it, climate is as important in shaping the distribution and movement of humans as it is in other animals. The McGill...

Paris Climate Change Conference (Nov.-Dec. 2015)

Published: 27 November 2015

  The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21, will be held in Paris from November 30 to December 11.

Global warming ‘pause’ reflects natural fluctuation

Published: 21 July 2014

Statistical analysis of average global temperatures between 1998 and 2013 shows that the slowdown in global warming during this period is consistent with natural variations in temperature,...

Harnessing the butterfly effect

Published: 18 August 2015

The atmosphere is so unstable that a butterfly flapping its wings can, famously, change the course of weather patterns. The celebrated “butterfly effect” also means that the reliability of weather...

The making of Antarctica

Published: 31 January 2017

One of the big mysteries in the scientific world is how the ice sheets of Antarctica formed so rapidly about 34 million years ago, at the boundary between the Eocene and Oligocene epochs....

Climate change is bad for Inuit health, research group says

Published: 1 May 2014

McGill group says the Arctic needs better adaptation policies...

Global Health Conference on Climate Change

Saturday, May 2, 2015 10:00to16:30

The McGill Global Health Committee of IFMSA-Quebec is organizing a conference that will not only explore the impacts of climate change on human health here and on a global scale but also transform...

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