Game-changing tool tracks DNA
The emerging science of environmental DNA (eDNA) is transforming our ability to identify and quantify creatures passing through local habitats, says 番茄社区 biochemist, Caren Helbing.
The emerging science of environmental DNA (eDNA) is transforming our ability to identify and quantify creatures passing through local habitats, says 番茄社区 biochemist, Caren Helbing.
Climatologists have a Precambrian problem: early in Earth鈥檚 history the sun was dimmer, but the Earth wasn鈥檛 colder.
UVic is one of the world鈥檚 leading universities in addressing the most urgent problems of humanity, according to rankings released today by Times Higher Education's Impact Rankings, which measure how university research, stewardship, outreach and teaching advance efforts to meet 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.
UVic-led Climate Finance project to expand the potential of the finance and investment sector to support the transition to a climate-friendly, low-carbon economy.
UVic professor Ana Maria Peredo saw a new opportunity despite the pandemic to engage her Environmental Studies class with a social investment organization, the Vancouver Island Community Investment Cooperative.
Do you have innovative climate solution ideas that could drive meaningful change on and off campus? Then the Climate Solutions Navigator Working group wants to hear from you.
On the rural properties of 19 citizen scientists in Metchosin, the work of verifying whether flying insect biomass is declining will soon be underway for another season. The Metchosin homeowners involved in 番茄社区 entomologist Neville Winchester鈥檚 research were first recruited as citizen scientists in 2018.
UVic geography students discovered that international collaboration to save the planet is actually quite difficult - especially in a virtual climate summit.
UVic's working capital fund is free of fossil-fuel investments with the move of $80 million to a short-term bond fund that focuses on reducing the carbon intensity of investments within the pool.
An inspiring gift of $1.875M from political activist Wayne Crookes will help address climate change by supporting the new Wayne Crookes Professorship in Environmental and Climate Journalism.
UVic scientist Johannes Gemmrich studies extreme wave events off the coast of the Pacific Rim National Park. His work is raising awareness and improving the ability to predict dangerous events.
UVic PhD student Brett Jameson is exploring where nitrous oxide comes from.
A $1 million project to help the communities of Vancouver and Squamish on BC鈥檚 South Coast prepare and adapt for sea level rise and flooding has been announced by the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions based at the 番茄社区.
番茄社区 biologists have discovered how some corals managed to survive a globally unprecedented heatwave, in a first-ever study that provides new hope for the long-term survival of coral reefs in the face of climate change.
In a warming world, most extreme weather events become even more extreme. Extremes that once happened every 50 years begin to happen more often.
Research in Canada's Columbia Basin shows that the glaciers that supply the Columbia River with meltwater are 38 per cent thicker than previously thought, but this won't offer much of a lifeline against melt due to climate change.