HINDU | ‘Holistic policy needed to promote small millets’

Published: 16 February 2018

Vijaya Raghavan, Professor, McGill University, which is one of the collaborators of the project, said that promoting the consumption of small millets was not only key for addressing malnutrition...

As climate warms, mice morph

Published: 27 November 2017

New research by McGill University biologists shows that milder winters have led to physical alterations in two species of mice in southern Quebec in the past 50 years – providing a textbook example...

Statistical tool reveals climate change impacts on plants

Published: 6 November 2017

Early flowering, early fruiting: Anecdotal evidence of climate change is popping up as quickly as spring crocuses, but is it coincidence or confirmation that plants’ timing is shifting in response...

Floods in Quebec

Published: 9 May 2017

Suzanne King, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University and Douglas Institute...

Protecting life’s tangled ecological webs

Published: 9 May 2017

Ecosystems are a complex web of interactions. These ecological networks are being reorganized by extinctions and colonization events caused by human impacts, such as climate change and habitat...

Students receive $50K from Ottawa for innovative urban green housing design

Published: 6 April 2017

Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change, the Honourable Catherine McKenna announced a $50,000 grant from Natural Resources Canada’s Program for Energy Research and Development (PERD) to...

The making of Antarctica

Published: 31 January 2017

One of the big mysteries in the scientific world is how the ice sheets of Antarctica formed so rapidly about 34 million years ago, at the boundary between the Eocene and Oligocene epochs....

Murray Humphries named McGill Northern Research Chair

Published: 1 November 2016

Institut nordique du Québec (INQ)’s founding partners have unveiled the first foundational elements of the Institute’s scientific program by simultaneously announcing three northern research chairs...

Socioeconomics play key role in Arctic Search and Rescue

Published: 30 September 2016

Traveling and harvesting on the land and sea is of vital importance to Indigenous communities in the Canadian Arctic and subarctic, with links to food security, cultural identity, and wellbeing. A...

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