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The following UVic experts are available to media to discuss environmental and climate change topics ahead of Earth Day (April 22).

Lusungu Kayani-Stearns, a Vanier scholar, explores African cities, focusing on the unacknowledged waste sector, aiming for inclusive urban transformations.

Hailey Davies, Vanier scholar, dives into fish welfare affected by noise pollution, leading rockfish conservation and fostering science literacy through outreach.

UVic’s ocean women in social sciences are scientists and researchers who are making a difference with work that honours, values and promotes the benefits of collaboration and cooperation.

UVic researchers work with global partners to launch a website dedicated to providing free access to FishSounds. Understanding the sounds made by fish can help to determine the best approaches to address marine pollution and climate change ocean impacts.

UVic climatologist Faron Anslow discusses a new global analysis that says Western Canada heat wave "virtually impossible" without human-caused climate change.

Chocolate fix: How the cocoa industry could end deforestation

Clean water, essential to global health, is the focus of two Civil Engineering research groups.

Mechanical engineer Zuomin Dong and UVic’s Clean Transportation Research Team are working to cut down on the environmental impacts of marine vessels in our oceans.

​ 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.

A new ·¬ÇÑÉçÇø study suggests humans are unknowingly consuming tens of thousands of micrplastics every year.

People eat at least 50,000 plastic particles a year, study finds

Two alumni, and a technology start-up that drives environmental impacts down.

A collaborative team led by ·¬ÇÑÉçÇø doctoral student and Hakai Scholar Kieran Cox and fish ecologist Francis Juanes has found that anthropogenic noise is changing the ability of fish to forage, reproduce and avoid predation.

A UVic-led knowledge network focused on climate change solutions welcomes the appointment of its executive director to serve as a member of a new advisory council to the BC government providing strategic advice on areas of focus for climate action that go hand in hand with economic growth.

On Dec. 5, the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS), Pembina Institute and Clean Energy Canada released the first independent assessment of BC’s Climate Leadership Plan in combination with the federal government’s recently announced carbon price schedule.