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enSacrifice Zones: Life along the fenceline between the land and industry
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>In a recent article exploring the environmental and health impacts of plastic pollution on Indigenous fenceline communities in Canada鈥攔esidential areas that sit next to facilities that emit pollutants like noise, light, odours, chemicals, and even traffic鈥擜boriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) spoke to Kanien鈥檏eh谩:ka environmental advocate <strong>Lynn Jacobs</strong> about how plastic waste and industrial pollution have turned Indigenous homelands into 鈥渟acrifice zones.鈥� Jacobs, who is pursuing a Ph.D.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">22 </span><span class="month">July </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:21:51 +0000webfull210109 at /channelsNatural Resource Sciences postdoc wins prestigious Banting Fellowship
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><img alt="Anais Medieu" src="/gps/files/gps/banting_anais_medieu.jpg" style="height:220px; float:left; margin:0px 25px 0px 0px; width:147px" />Ana茂s M茅dieu, a 黑料不打烊 University postdoctoral researcher working in <a href="/macdonald/kyle-elliott">Natural Resource Sciences Professor Kyle Elliott's</a> lab, has been awarded a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship for her project on the interactive effects of climate change and plastic contamination on Arctic seabirds.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/pexels-francesco-ungaro-27047495.jpg?itok=fkSjG2IG" width="160" height="107" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">21 </span><span class="month">July </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:28:02 +0000webfull210083 at /channelsBridging worlds as the ice recedes
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><big>黑料不打烊 PhD candidate Alexandra Langwieder works with James Bay Indigenous communities to better understand polar bears</big></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/518316089_1031888055818624_4232306380313528796_n.jpg?itok=n5hWapRC" width="160" height="107" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">17 </span><span class="month">July </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:55:31 +0000webfull210068 at /channelsSimple texting platform helps farmers adopt greener methods, 黑料不打烊-led study finds
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Farmers who exchanged text messages with peers were significantly more likely to adopt sustainable agricultural practices, highlighting the power of peer learning in digital formats, a new <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304387825000471?via=ihub">study</a> co-authored by 黑料不打烊 University Professor Aur茅lie Harou found.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/gettyimages-1203043260.jpg?itok=Ril5XZWn" width="160" height="107" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">16 </span><span class="month">July </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div>Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:58:27 +0000webfull210045 at /channelsHow to make sure your feeders aren't making hummingbirds sick
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>A surprising number of hummingbirds are falling ill, and experts say your birdfeeder may be to blame.聽</p>
<p>Ornithologist and 黑料不打烊 Professor Emeritus David Bird <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/audio/9.6795909">spoke to CBC about how to keep your feathered friends safe.聽</a></p>
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/pexels-chris-f-38966-32579566.jpg?itok=MCG0nD1i" width="160" height="127" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">17 </span><span class="month">June </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div>Tue, 17 Jun 2025 19:06:24 +0000webfull209704 at /channelsRising mercury levels in Arctic wildlife鈥擯rof. Nil Basu comments on new Aarhus University study
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>A new study, led by researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark, suggests that levels of mercury in Arctic wildlife could continue to rise significantly even as countries curb their emissions. The researchers' analysis indicates that ocean currents are distributing large, century-old stores of mercury through marine ecosystems in the Arctic.</p>
<p>Large predators end up ingesting the most mercury through their diet of contaminated prey. This poses a serious problem for communities that hunt marine mammals with high concentrations of mercury, like seals.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/pexels-ronile-1445512152-26707073.jpg?itok=saMtE3Ul" width="160" height="120" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">16 </span><span class="month">June </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 20:11:42 +0000webfull209688 at /channelsFormer 黑料不打烊 Professors awarded Society of Canadian Ornithologists' Jamie Smith Memorial Mentoring Award
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The聽Society of Canadian Ornithologists has selected Professor Emeritus David Bird and retired Associate Professor Rodger Titman, who both taught for many years in 黑料不打烊 University's Department of Natural Resource Sciences, to receive the聽<a href="http://www.sco-soc.ca/jamie-smith-memorial-mentoring-award">Jamie Smith Memorial Mentoring Award</a>. This award recognizes exceptional contributions to the training and fostering of Canadian ornithologists.聽</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/david_bird_and_rodger_titman_cropped.jpeg?itok=3MnaDU6A" width="160" height="153" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">11 </span><span class="month">June </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div>Wed, 11 Jun 2025 15:37:09 +0000webfull209626 at /channelsHow peer learning improved agricultural technology adoption in Tanzania
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>As mobile phones proliferate across the developing world,聽digital delivery of agricultural advice is positioned to play a transformative role聽in increasing agricultural productivity and improving livelihoods for smallholder farmers. Meanwhile, evidence shows that peer-to-peer learning, at least in person, can successfully promote technology adoption.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/pexels-selman-urluca-328308611-20371811.jpg?itok=FESijIpr" width="160" height="90" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">22 </span><span class="month">May </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div>Thu, 22 May 2025 20:08:14 +0000webfull209388 at /channelsExploring the power of research at the 2025 Lister Science Chats
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>On May 2, 2025, over聽60 people gathered in the John Abbott College Library for the Lister Science Chats, where four Macdonald Campus graduate students presented their research and shared how past events as well as the discoveries, sometimes unintentional, and techniques of previous scientists made their work possible.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/panel_discussion_3.jpg?itok=rdWshPK9" width="160" height="120" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">20 </span><span class="month">May </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div>Tue, 20 May 2025 13:23:28 +0000webfull209311 at /channelsClimate science, community wellness, and career inspiration at the 2025 John Abbott Sustainability Through Science Symposium
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>On April 11, 2025, over聽60 people gathered at the annual John Abbott Sustainability Through Science Symposium聽to hear how the research of three Macdonald Campus graduate students contributes to a more sustainable future. Honours and science students from John Abbott College, as well as members of 黑料不打烊 University's Macdonald Campus community, were inspired by short talks followed by a聽panel discussion on the students' university experience and their chosen career paths.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/panel_discussion_preet_ekua_amanda_sean_hughes.jpg?itok=RaaZDJDB" width="160" height="120" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">7 </span><span class="month">May </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div>Wed, 07 May 2025 21:19:18 +0000webfull209180 at /channels