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$3.1 M for Eight McGill Research Projects

webfull — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 18:22:21 +0000

Eight projects funded through the Canada Foundation for Innovation John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF) and the Government of Quebec acquire new tools and infrastructure to generate new knowledge, from improving breast cancer treatments to understanding the lives of parasitoid insects.

Published: 22 February 2022

What the rise of oxygen on early Earth tells us about life on other planets

webfull — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 20:02:49 +0000

When did the Earth reach oxygen levels sufficient to support animal life? Researchers from �㽶��Ƶ have discovered that a rise in oxygen levels occurred in step with the evolution and expansion of complex, eukaryotic ecosystems. Their findings represent the strongest evidence to date that extremely low oxygen levels exerted an important limitation on evolution for billions of years.

Published: 31 January 2022

Expert: Hurricane Matthew

webfull — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 17:59:00 +0000

“Hurricane Matthew is poised to deliver a potentially catastrophic strike on Haiti beginning Monday, and poses a danger to eastern Cuba and Jamaica by Monday night.” (The Weather Network)

Published: 6 October 2016

Mars, too, has macroweather

webfull — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 14:53:36 +0000

Weather, which changes day-to-day due to constant fluctuations in the atmosphere, and climate, which varies over decades, are familiar. More recently, a third regime, called “macroweather,” has been used to describe the relatively stable regime between weather and climate.

Published: 13 November 2014

McGill expert: Record high for greenhouse gases

webfull — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 15:30:32 +0000

Published: 9 September 2014