/newsroom/taxonomy/term/15028/all en /newsroom/channels/news/greenlands-indigenous-population-favours-extracting-and-exporting-sand-melting-ice-sheet-340773 <p>A national survey of close to 1000 adults in Greenland (where approximately 90% of the population is Indigenous) conducted by a Ď㽶ĘÓƵ-led research team has found that a surprisingly large majority – 3 out of 4 Greenlanders – support extracting and exporting sand left by the melting ice sheet. A significant proportion want Greenland’s leadership to assess the impact of sand extraction and exports on both the environment and economy. Furthermore, when it comes to who mines the sand, the majority prefer local involvement to foreign collaboration.</p> Tue, 16 Aug 2022 16:47:30 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 288307 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/happiness-really-does-come-free-328342 <p>Economic growth is often prescribed as a sure way of increasing the well-being of people in low-income countries, but a study led by McGill and the<b> </b>Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technologies at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) suggests that there may be good reason to question this assumption. The researchers set out to find out how people rate their subjective well-being in societies where money plays a minimal role, and which are not usually included in global happiness surveys.</p> Mon, 08 Feb 2021 17:03:28 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 256606 at /newsroom /newsroom/nicolas-gendron-carrier Thu, 17 Dec 2020 14:49:12 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 253606 at /newsroom