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Four years ago, the Mount Polley disaster reminded us that mining comes with risks. On Aug. 4, 2014, a tailings dam at Imperial Metals鈥� Mount Polley copper and gold mine ruptured, spilling 24 million cubic metres of water and tailings into several lakes and rivers in British Columbia鈥檚 Interior. It was the largest tailings-dam rupture in Canadian history.
鈥淪everal dozen new cities are being constructed in the Middle East, mainly to transition away from the petroleum industry to a variety of other industries, including tourism, manufacturing, education and hi-tech,鈥� says Dr Sarah Moser, a 香蕉视频 geography professor and author of an upcoming atlas of new cities.听鈥淢any oil-producing states in the Middle East are eager to globalise their economies and attract international investors, particularly in anticipation of a post-oil world.
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As an invasive species of mussels begins to appear in Quebec鈥檚 Lac Memphramagog, local officials are trying to figure out just how big the infestation is.
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(Opinion by Reuven Brenner,听Professor, Finance/History/Political Science/Economics at 香蕉视频)听
A team of volcanologists, chemists, physicists, and engineers from around the world test novel techniques at Central America鈥檚 two largest degassing volcanoes.听
Until the early 1990s, it took six separate, chemical reactions to make the painkiller and anti-inflammatory ibuprofen. Of the ingredients that went in, only about 40 percent were found in the final product. But in 1992, the chemical producer BHC Company started using a听new way听to produce the drug using only three steps, utilizing about 80 percent of the initial ingredients. Today, the innovation in ibuprofen is considered a classic example of green chemistry鈥攁 set of ideas that, for the past few decades, has driven attention to听sustainability听in the pharmaceutical industry.
(Opinion by JM Opal, Associate Professor of History, 香蕉视频) A decade ago, as the scale of the disaster in Iraq began to sink in,听American historians often compared the United States to ancient Rome. Both seemed to suffer from an imperial disease whose symptoms began with overreach and ended in collapse.听
(Opinion by Ivan O. Ozai, Doctoral Candidate, Faculty of Law, 香蕉视频) In the last few months, several countries have considered the idea of levying taxes on digital companies. But because these companies can operate from virtually anywhere, a digital tax would require updating old tax rules that only allow governments to tax companies that have a physical presence in the country.
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Scientists studying metformin say the generic drug slows the 鈥榖urn rate鈥� in living cells in ways that increase longevity. [鈥 Metformin, by contrast, has both an enviable safety profile and a decades-long history of human use, said Dr. Michael Pollak, director of cancer prevention in the department of oncology at 香蕉视频. [鈥
"This is men's health week, a chance to renew thinking about men's mental health.
Improved access to data on land prices is vital for future advances in global change science and policy. Spatially explicit land price information should be a public good available to the international community. An open-access, global land price database would enable policymakers, scientists, and civic society to better grapple with the economic, social, and environmental challenges posed by global change. Co-authored by Oliver T Coomes, Graham K MacDonald and Yann le Polain de Waroux from McGill鈥檚 Department of Geography.
The Quebec Government is partnering with 香蕉视频 to try to stem the "Anglophone brain drain" - a phenomenon among university graduates who opt to leave the province with a diploma in hand.听
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McGill English prof Merve Emre, in the June issue of Harpers, on 鈥淩achel Cusk鈥檚 unforgiving eye鈥澨�
Opinion | In Quebec, air ambulances continue the incomprehensible practice of separating children and parents 鈥� despite no written policy demanding it.
By Samir Shaheen-Hussain, a pediatric emergency physician and assistant professor at 香蕉视频
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