The mandates may be lifted, but COVID-19 continues to shape how families across Canada mourn. Funeral directors say the COVID-19 pandemic has so altered what it means to mourn that it might be a while before there is any community consensus of how and when to have a funeral. While many families feel the time is right to finally mourn, others feel like too much time has passed, and they no longer plan to hold a service. (CBC News)

Classified as: McGill experts, Mary Ellen McDonald, faculty of dental medicine and oral health sciences, grief, loss, mourning, covid-19, funerals, grief literacy
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Published on: 22 Jun 2022

For decades, scientists have wrestled with rival theories to explain how interactions between species, like competition, influence biodiversity. Tracking microbial life across the planet, researchers from McGill University show that biodiversity does in fact foster further diversity in microbiomes that are initially less diverse. However, diversity rates plateau with increased competition for survival and space in more diverse microbiomes.

Classified as: microbiome, biodiversity, loss, microbial life, diversity begets diversity, Jesse Shapiro, Sustainability
Published on: 3 Feb 2021
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