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State and Trends in Adaptation Report 2021: Africa

webfull — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 15:48:53 +0000

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.

Published: 29 October 2021

Indigenous territories fight climate change

webfull — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 14:50:21 +0000

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

Published: 17 August 2021

Will climate change outpace species adaptation?

webfull — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 14:40:14 +0000

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.

Published: 4 March 2021

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

webfull — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 17:09:32 +0000

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.

Published: 7 April 2020

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

webfull — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 14:36:30 +0000

Species adapt to their local climates, but how often they adapt to their local communities remains a mystery. To find answers, researchers at �㽶��Ƶ 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.

Published: 25 February 2020

Why do some fish thrive in oil-polluted water?

webfull — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 07:58:11 +0000

By Melody Enguix

McGill Newsroom

When scientists from �㽶��Ƶ 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.

Published: 26 January 2016

Overcoming hurdles to Arctic climate change adaptation

webfull — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 21:42:36 +0000

By Katherine Gombay, McGill Newsroom

Arctic peoples inherently able to adapt given changes to various non-climatic factors

Published: 6 January 2016