climate change
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As academics researching climate and environmental change, we have been encouraged to see increased focus on climate in politics and society in recent years.... more
By unpubadmin
April 21, 2021
This inspiring work is by an Ecology Ottawa alumnus who felt that, even among people who know a lot about climate change, not enough is known about the IPCC,... more
February 7, 2021
I’m here on January 17, 2021 on Unama’ki (Cape Breton Island), Nova Scotia and looking at my very accurate outdoor thermometer that says it is 11 degrees... more
By Paul Strome
January 17, 2021
(OTTAWA) – On January 16, on the heels of a May 2020 decision to expand Ottawa's urban boundary, city planners released a draft report recommending the... more
January 17, 2021
We report three major and confronting environmental issues that have received little attention and require urgent action. First, we review the evidence that... more
By unpubadmin
January 17, 2021
When we lived in the arctic during the 1970s and 80s I was fortunate enough to spend a lot of time out on the land with the Inuit. Living beside Moonshine... more
By Paul Strome
December 27, 2020
Despite province-wide opposition, the Ford government has again defied your Environmental Bill of Rights, and used a Budget Bill to gut crucial environmental... more
By Diane Saxe
December 18, 2020
The City of Ottawa has released its annual greenhouse gas emissions inventories in the lead-up to the December 15, 2020 meeting of the Standing Committee of... more
December 7, 2020
1) Do not expand the urban boundary. Recently, Ottawa approved another large expansion of its urban boundary, adding houses to the periphery. It will cause... more
By Shawn Menard
December 7, 2020
TORONTO – Green Party of Canada Leader Annamie Paul said today that Canada should immediately begin bilateral negotiations with President-elect Biden on the... more
November 10, 2020
On Wednesday, November 4, 2020, Mayor Jim Watson presented the City of Ottawa’s draft 2021 budget. As the mayor noted, 2020 has been a year unlike any other in... more
November 7, 2020
As of Sunday, around 4 million acres have been scorched by wildfires in California, Washington and Oregon.
These fires are a reminder that for all our... more
September 16, 2020
Last week the Ford government released their “preferred route” for a new 400-series highway.
The proposed Highway 413 will carve up the Greenbelt. It runs... more
August 14, 2020
Last week, I made two alarming discoveries:
The federal government has suspended water quality monitoring since the beginning of the pandemic.
The federal... more
By unpubadmin
August 14, 2020
COVID-19 is very much shaping our present, our future and eventually, will describe our past.
This invisible virus will continue to cause grief and fear in... more
June 15, 2020