Prize-winning scholars advocate for immigrant women, killer whales and a balanced society

Published: 21 March 2024

McGill University is pleased to announce the winners and runners-up of the 2024 President’s Prize for Public Engagement through Media. The Prize was created to recognize outstanding achievement...

Killer whales’ diet more important than location for pollutant exposure, study says

Published: 24 October 2023

Both elegant and fierce, killer whales are some of the oceans’ top predators, but even they can be exposed to environmental pollution. Now, in the largest study to date on North Atlantic killer...

Tastes differ – even among North Atlantic killer whales

Published: 14 April 2023

Killer whales (also known as orcas) are intelligent predators. While it’s known that killer whales in the Pacific Northwest exploit widely different food types, even within the same region, we know...

Expert: Right whale population continued to decline in 2021

Published: 25 October 2022

The population of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales continued to decline in 2021, according to the latest estimate that puts the surviving population at 340. (CBC News) ...

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