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 on: 29 Oct 2021
In a recent study in , researchers from 6 different countries, including Camilo Alejo and Catherine Potvin of the Department of Biology at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, examined the importance of Indigenous Territories in climate change mitigation across Panama and the Amazon Basin.
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Published on: 17 Aug 2021
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.
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Published on: 4 Mar 2021
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.
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Published on: 7 Apr 2020
Species adapt to their local climates, but how often they adapt to their local communities remains a mystery. To find answers, researchers at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ 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 .
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Published on: 25 Feb 2020
By Melody Enguix
When scientists from Ï㽶ÊÓƵ 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 on: 26 Jan 2016
By Katherine Gombay, McGill Newsroom
Arctic peoples inherently able to adapt given changes to various non-climatic factors
Published on: 6 Jan 2016
