Greenland’s Indigenous population favours extracting and exporting sand from melting ice sheet

Published: 18 August 2022

A national survey of close to 1000 adults in Greenland (where approximately 90% of the population is Indigenous) conducted by a McGill University-led research team has found that a surprisingly...

Research briefs: Origami-inspired design and why mice fear bananas

Published: 24 May 2022

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

Identifying Canada’s key conservation hot spots highlights problem

Published: 5 January 2021

To stop biodiversity loss, Canada recently committed to protecting 30% of its land and sea by 2030. But making conservation decisions about where to locate new protected areas is complicated. It...

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...

Ice sheets on the move: how north and south poles connect

Published: 25 November 2020

Over the past 40,000 years, ice sheets thousands of kilometres apart have influenced one another through sea level changes, according to research published today in Nature. New modelling of ice...

Experts: The return of ‘Fridays for Future’

Published: 25 September 2020

While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to overshadow most other topics in 2020, Canadian activists are joining demonstrators around the world to bring climate change back into the conversation....

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