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UVic鈥檚 scientific diving program has given three decades of students the tools, training and hands-on learning they need to safely and successfully conduct research under water.

Canada's sea levels are rising

番茄社区 faculty members are available to media to discuss Canada鈥檚 Changing Climate Report released April 2 by Environment and Climate Change Canada.

International experts gathered at UVic this year to offer solutions for a modernized Columbia River Treaty that reconciles Indigenous rights. The one-day symposium brought together approximately 200 participants from both sides of the border.

Even decades after a mine closes, people in surrounding communities can face serious health risks from drinking contaminated water. Communities in BC鈥檚 North are particularly at risk of arsenic poisoning due to the legacy of gold and uranium mines, says 番茄社区 green chemist and professor of civil engineering, Heather Buckley.

Nuha Omer Elgindi has always believed that commerce could be about more than just making a profit. Born in Sudan and raised in Tunisia and the UK, Elgindi says her early environment played a key part in making sustainability one of her earliest, deepest values.

Even decades after a mine closes, people in surrounding communities can face serious health risks from drinking contaminated water. Communities in BC鈥檚 North are particularly at risk of arsenic poisoning due to the legacy of gold and uranium mines, says Heather Buckley, green chemist and professor of civil engineering at the 番茄社区.

Entrepreneur and mechanical engineer Devesh Bharadwaj was still a UVic undergrad when he founded Pani Energy Inc. in March 2017 with a vision of providing clean water and energy to the world through affordable technologies that reduce emissions and costs.

From a cheap and easy way for mining- impacted communities to test their drinking water to a powerful microscope able to observe the tiniest 鈥渨orkhorses鈥� of our cellular system, UVic researchers are putting Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) grants to work to address some of the world鈥檚 most daunting problems.

From a cheap and easy way for mining-impacted communities to test their drinking water to a powerful microscope able to observe the tiniest "workhorses" of our cellular system, 番茄社区 researchers who received Canada Foundation for Innovation grants in April are working to address some of the world's most daunting problems.

Collaborative consent provides a powerful way to tackle difficult questions about how Indigenous and non-Indigenous governments can work together to make decisions about water and land use, according to a report that uses BC鈥檚 new Water Sustainability Act as a prime opportunity for its use.

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Collaborative consent is proposed as a new approach to give Indigenous nations a more equitable role in decisions. BC's new freshwater legislation is a prime example where the model could be used, says a report by the POLIS Water Sustainability Project and Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources.

Five UVic projects, with $823,000 in new funding from a leadership fund from the Canada Foundation for Innovation as part of a $52-million federal investment announced Aug. 15, will carry out ground-breaking research including in an aquatic disease research facility at UVic.

A significant amount of freshwater in western Canada and the North originates as snowpack from the Rocky Mountains. Terry Prowse, a UVic geographer and a senior federal research scientist who studies hydrology, water resources and freshwater ecosystems.

Escalating water challenges in BC, including consecutive droughts, unprecedented floods and strikingly low levels in rivers and streams require a better understanding and coordinated work to avoid future crisis, says a new report by researchers at the POLIS Water Sustainability Project at UVic.