Scientists call for renewed global effort to curb fossil fuels as seven of nine planetary boundaries now transgressed The world’s oceans have failed a key planetary health check for the first time, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels, a report has shown. In its latest annual assessment, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research said ocean acidity had crossed a critical threshold for marine life. Continue reading...

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Une équipe de recherche s’est penchée sur la durabilité et les effets sur la biodiversité urbaine de l’apiculture à Montréal.

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La nouvelle professeure adjointe du Département de géographie Johanne Pelletier est spécialisée dans la télédétection et l’étude des impacts environnementaux des activités humaines.

Conservationists hope that in 15 years species will no longer be at risk of extinction in Mexico – but challenges remain

Élodie Roussel consacre ses travaux de maîtrise à la recherche de traces des éruptions volcaniques du passé dans les tourbières.

Chemists at University College London have shown how two of biology's most fundamental ingredients, RNA (ribonucleic acid) and amino acids, could have spontaneously joined together at the origin of life four billion years ago.

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Les travaux de Félix Henri étudient les effets de la présence d’une colonie de cormorans à aigrettes sur une île de l’archipel de Mingan.

Abstract. The lowland Maya of Mesoamerica were affected by multiple environmental stresses throughout their history, and are experienced a major demographic and political decline, or collapse, during ...

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Mammals have developed some unusual eating habits over the past 100 million years, but a new study has uncovered the surprising lengths to which some have gone to satisfy one of the more peculiar—a taste for ants and termites.