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Published: 24 May 2022

Here are some interesting new stories from McGill University Media Relations:

The Anthropocene and Learning to Be Guests

Friday, June 3, 2022 13:00to15:00

/continuingstudiesCategory: School of Continuing Studies

Exposure to wildfires increases risk of cancer

Published: 10 May 2022

A new study from McGill University finds higher incidence of lung cancer and brain tumors in people exposed to wildfires. The study, which tracks over two million Canadians over a period of 20...

Money for Nothing: Investment and Financial Policies to get to Net Zero

Tuesday, May 10, 2022 17:00to18:30

Hosted by the Max Bell Foundation, this event brings three experts together to discuss the investment and finance challenges of the net-zero energy transition./maxbellschoolCategory: Public...

How a break at the pumps is a reverse carbon tax — and could make climate change worse | CBC

Published: 7 April 2022

April 7, 2022 | As Canadians wait to hear Ottawa's spending plans in today's budget, there are conflicting views worldwide over whether countries should be producing more oil and gas to help Europe...

War: The enemy of air, land, and sea | The McGill Tribune

Published: 6 April 2022

April 5, 2022 | In this McGill Tribune article, Max Bell School director Chris Ragan comments on the relationship between war and climate change and expresses his belief that Putin's incursion into...

Harnessing Small Business Climate Action in Canada

Monday, April 25, 2022 14:00to15:30

***Please note that due to unforeseen circumstances that this event has been cancelled***/maxbellschoolCategory: Public lectures and conferences Desautels Faculty of Management Seminars

Raising livestock sustainably - A win-win solution for climate change

Published: 16 March 2022

Veterinarian and Ph.D. candidate (NRS) Vivian Arguelles Gonzalez weighs in on silvopastoralism, an alternative agricultural system that could address the environmental impacts of livestock, and...

Gendered experience of disaster: Women’s account of evacuation, relief and recovery in Nepal | International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

Published: 21 February 2022

February 4, 2022 | This paper presents an in-depth analysis of women earthquake survivors during and after the 2015 earthquake in Nepal by looking at women’s experience of evacuation, relief, and...

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