adaptation

State and Trends in Adaptation Report 2021: Africa

During his official visit to the Netherlands and the Global Center on Adaptation on October 29 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (seen here with Dr. Patrick Verkooijen, Chief Executive Officer, Global Center on Adaptation) examines the "State and Trends in Adaptation Report 2021: Africa", co-directed by ISID Professor of Practice Jamal Saghir. The full report can be found online.

Classified as: africa, climate change, adaptation, Jamal Saghir

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Inst. for the Study of International Development

Published on: 29 Oct 2021

Indigenous territories fight climate change

In a recent study in PLOS ONE, researchers from 6 different countries, including Camilo Alejo and Catherine Potvin of the Department of Biology at McGill University, examined the importance of Indigenous Territories in climate change mitigation across Panama and the Amazon Basin.

Classified as: Indigenous territories, climate change, mitigation, adaptation, land use, Forest ecosystems, forest resources, Sustainability, Camilo Alejo, catherine potvin, panama, Amazon Basin

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Published on: 17 Aug 2021

Will climate change outpace species adaptation?

Many species might be left vulnerable in the face of climate change, unable to adapt their physiologies to respond to rapid global warming. According to a team of international researchers, species evolve heat tolerance more slowly than cold tolerance, and the level of heat they can adapt to has limits.

Classified as: climate change, heat, cold, tolerance, species, adaptation, jennifer sunday, Sustainability

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Published on: 4 Mar 2021

CNN | Birds that learn new behaviors less likely to go extinct, says study

Now, a new study has found that birds that are able to change their behavior in this way are less likely to become extinct than those that do not adapt.

Classified as: Simon Ducatez, birds, adaptation

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In the Headlines

Published on: 7 Apr 2020

Adaptation: Competition and predation may not be the driving force scientists thought

Species adapt to their local climates, but how often they adapt to their local communities remains a mystery. To find answers, researchers at McGill University and the University of British Columbia examined over 125 studies testing local adaptation in over 100 species of plants and animals in an article published in The American Naturalist.

Classified as: anna hargreaves, adaptation, evolution, transplant experiments, competition, predator-prey, tropics, Sustainability

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News releases

Published on: 25 Feb 2020

Why do some fish thrive in oil-polluted water?

By Melody Enguix

McGill Newsroom

When scientists from McGill University learned that some fish were proliferating in rivers and ponds polluted by oil extraction in Southern Trinidad, it caught their attention. They thought they had found a rare example of a species able to adapt to crude oil pollution.