Scientists warn of the social and environmental risks tied to the energy transition

Published: 3 December 2020

To meet the most ambitious 1.5º C climate goal requires a rapid phaseout of fossil fuels and mass use of renewables. However, new international research by McGill University and the Institute of...

Environmental groups moving beyond conservation

Published: 28 May 2020

Although non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become powerful voices in world environmental politics, little is known of the global picture of this sector. A new study shows that...

Classifying the world's rivers

29 Jan 2019

New paper by Camille Ouellet Dallaire and Bernhard Lehner (McGill Department of Geography), Roger Sayre (US Geological Survey, Reston, VA) and Michele Thieme (World Wildlife Fund, Washington, DC)...

Protecting life’s tangled ecological webs

Published: 9 May 2017

Ecosystems are a complex web of interactions. These ecological networks are being reorganized by extinctions and colonization events caused by human impacts, such as climate change and habitat...

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