The loss of biodiversity continues at an alarming rate despite decades of research and international policies setting out clear goals in the area. In an article published this week in Nature Sustainability, an international team of scientists including researchers from McGill identified seven key areas for future research in order to tackle, effectively, the root causes of the problem.

Classified as: Sustainability, McGill School of the Environment, Science research, Faculty of Science
Published on: 28 Oct 2019
A major new research partnership has been launched to explore ways of reducing health inequalities in cities around the world.
 
Classified as: society and culture, Jill Baumgartner, brian e. robinson, Christopher Barrington-Leigh, cities, environment, health, urban health, air pollution, wellcome trust, IHSP, McGill School of the Environment
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Published on: 6 Feb 2018

Dietary changes since the early 1960s have fueled a sharp increase in the amount of mined phosphorus used to produce the food consumed by the average person over the course of a year, according to a new study led by researchers at McGill University. Between 1961 and 2007, rising meat consumption and total calorie intake underpinned a 38% increase in the world’s per capita “phosphorus footprint,” the researchers conclude in a paper published online in Environmental Research Letters.

Classified as: environment, Bennett, fertilizer, McGill School of the Environment, Metson, Natural Resource Sciences, phosphorus
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Published on: 17 Jan 2013
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