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A UVic hydrologist is one of an international group of scientists and experts who are calling for action to protect global groundwater resources—which makes up 99 per cent of the Earth's liquid freshwater. Tom Gleeson is lead author of a Nature Correspondence article published this week that says we are not doing enough to protect and manage global groundwater resources from contamination, salinization, depletion and neglect.

Scientists now know that for Earth to stay within the temperature increase limit set by the Paris Agreement, negative emission technologies, which remove and permanently sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, are essential. The Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions is bringing together an international team of experts to take on this challenge in a new four-year feasibility study.

An interdisciplinary team of UVic and international scholars is exploring how vulnerable communities can build local and regional governance of food systems in the context of climate crisis. They met recently on Vancouver Island for a workshop that launched the Four Stories About Food Sovereignty project.

On Sept. 30, UVic hosted 51 dignitaries from 47 countries showcasing our world-leading research and to emphasize UVic’s focus on internationalization, clean energy and oceans. The university’s ongoing commitment to Indigenizing the academy was also highlighted.

BC needs huge power supply boost to electrify transport industry

If all vehicles in British Columbia by 2055 were powered by electricity instead of liquid fuels, BC would need to more than double its electricity generation capacity to meet the total forecast energy demand—and the move could prove surprisingly cost-effective thanks to solar and wind options.

Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions funds new $1.5M international research project. The global team of scientists, engineers and social scientists plan to turn the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into rock permanently beneath the Earth's ocean floor

With the 2019 UN climate action summit now underway in New York City, environmental journalist and UVic PhD candidate Carol Linnitt reflects on Canadian media’s commitment to covering environmental issues.

·¬ÇÑÉçÇø experts are available to media to discuss various aspects of climate change ahead of the Sept. 23 UN Climate Action Summit 2019 and during the federal election campaign.

Sybil Seitzinger, executive director of the UVic-led Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, will be among the 62 scientists honoured as fellows at the American Geophysical Union’s meeting this December in California.

UVic has been rated as one of North America’s most sustainable universities, according to the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.

​A pan-Canadian research team led by UVic is investigating the ocean’s role in slowing climate change. The ocean plays a critical role in absorbing large quantities of carbon dioxide released by human activities yet not enough is known about the absorption or how it will change with ocean warming.

​ A new online mapping tool that highlights the 50 most influential fossil fuel industry players in Western Canada was launched July 3 and helps shed light on who’s who in the oil resource sector.

The wildfire season is heating up quickly in western Canada. The following UVic researchers are available to media for expert comment as we head into the hot summer months in BC and Alberta.

Trawling through international waters in search of salmon had its ups and downs according to geography PhD student, Vishnu Perumthuruthil Suseelan, who spent six weeks aboard the Russian vessel, the Professor Kaganovsky.

Canada's sea levels are rising