/science/taxonomy/term/3105/all en /science/channels/news/west-island-high-schoolers-participate-summer-research-mcgills-gault-nature-reserve-361705 <p>This summer, Gault Nature Reserve hosted four high schoolers from the West Island Black Community Association for this year’s Youth Biodiversity Internships Program. Led by Professor Bruno Tremblay, this collaboration brought together a diverse range of community members from McGill and beyond to connect on their passion for science. For 5 weeks, youth conducted fieldwork at Gault with McGill students, explored how scientific research happens in nature and made links to their own lives and future careers.  </p> Mon, 02 Dec 2024 18:57:30 +0000 megan.phillips@mcgill.ca 990499 at /science /science/channels/news/mark-your-calendars-family-science-day-september-28th-359770 <p><b>On September 28<sup>th</sup> between 9 am and 4 pm</b>, join McGill’s Office of Science Outreach, STEMM Diversity @ McGill, the Trottier Space Institute and McGill Physics Outreach, for free science activities for families. Activities will be held both indoors and outdoors at the downtown campus and are intended for children ages 6 and up.</p> <p>Registration is required for some activities.</p> <p>For more details and the full schedule, <a href="/science/outreach/upcoming-events">visit this link</a>.</p> Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:46:09 +0000 megan.phillips@mcgill.ca 989332 at /science /science/channels/news/teaching-hope-during-climate-crisis-346018 <p><em>Forty-five undergraduate students at McGill participated in new Climate Crisis and Climate Actions course</em></p> <p>The COVID-19 pandemic slowed down almost everything. For <a href="/ose/people/diane-dechief">Diane Dechief</a>, PhD, and <a href="/ose/people/diane-dechief">Marcy Slapcoff</a> of the Office of Science Education (OSE), the two leads of the new Faculty of Science course <a href="/ose/courses/fsci-198">FSCI198: Climate Crisis and Climate Actions</a>, there was a positive aspect to the delays.</p> Fri, 10 Feb 2023 15:02:38 +0000 jeremy.audet@mcgill.ca 936042 at /science /science/channels/news/mcgill-scholars-respond-cop15-biodiversity-conference-344907 <p>The 2022 United Nations Biodiversity Conference of the Parties (COP15) was held in Montreal on December 7-19, 2022. The conference’s outcome agreement, known as “30×30” means the protection of 30 per cent of land and oceans by 2030.</p> Fri, 13 Jan 2023 15:40:15 +0000 jeremy.audet@mcgill.ca 920739 at /science /science/channels/news/setting-targets-wetland-restoration-mitigate-climate-change-effects-watershed-hydrology-344810 <p>How much wetland we should protect or restore is not a simple question, such that conservation targets are often set according to political agendas, then standardized globally. However, given their key regulating hydrological functions, wetlands represent nature-based solutions to the anticipated, exacerbating effect of climate change on drought and flood events, which will vary at the regional scale. </p> Tue, 10 Jan 2023 16:46:20 +0000 jeremy.audet@mcgill.ca 919226 at /science /science/channels/news/cities-are-becoming-fulcrum-how-we-manage-biodiversity-344087 <p>As Montreal prepares to host UN Biodiversity Conference, McGill professor Andrew Gonzalez discusses how cities can help protect nature and human health.</p> <p>Global urban populations are projected to increase to nearly five billion by 2030. This ever-expanding urbanization threatens our world’s plant and animal biodiversity and degrades ecosystems through the loss of habitat, biomass and carbon storage. As noted during the recent COP27 climate conference, biodiversity loss is as critical to our planet’s health as the climate crisis.</p> Tue, 06 Dec 2022 17:23:12 +0000 jeremy.audet@mcgill.ca 903581 at /science /science/channels/news/whats-it-be-biology-student-mcgill-342816 <p>Join five current Biology students as they share their stories of finding their place and pursuing diverse paths within the discipline in this new video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j07Z5SHc2Ik">A Glimpse Into Biology at McGill</a>. To learn more about the inspiration for this video, read <a href="https://reporter.mcgill.ca/video-marks-launch-of-department-of-biology-outreach-campaign/">Video marks launch of Department of Biology outreach campaign</a>.</p> Fri, 14 Oct 2022 19:07:44 +0000 jacqueline.farrell@mcgill.ca 891920 at /science