A second chance to protect wetlands

Published: 8 February 2023

Wetlands are among the most threatened ecosystems in the world. A new study, published in Nature, has found that the loss of wetland areas around the globe since 1700 has likely been overestimated....

Over 260,000 kilometres of rivers at risk due to proposed hydro dams

Published: 12 August 2021

Over 260,000 kilometres of river could potentially be severed by planned hydroelectric developments according to McGill University researchers. The Amazon, the Congo, and the Irrawaddy are just a...

McGill researchers honoured in Québec Science 2019 list of top discoveries

Published: 9 January 2020

Research from McGill University topped Québec Science’s annual list of the 10 most important scientific breakthroughs. This year, Günther Grill, Bernhard Lehner, Tomislav Friščić, Heidi M. McBride,...

World’s most detailed database maps characteristics of Earth’s rivers and catchments

Published: 9 December 2019

Two researchers and friends from opposite ends of the Earth have created a world-first high spatial resolution atlas that maps the environmental characteristics of all the globe's rivers and...

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