Alberta’s government is planning a massive expansion to the Kitaskino Nuwenëné Wildland. Under the plan, 143,800 hectares of land will be added to over 160,000 hectares of protected boreal forests in northeastern Alberta. Almost all of the proposed expansion overlaps with a woodland caribou habitat and a small portion of the Ronald Lake bison herd range – both mammals that …

The Applied Science Hub will be a major nexus of transdisciplinary collaboration, where industry actors, start-ups and entrepreneurs partner with our graduate students and faculty on next-generation research.

The health of the Atlantic Ocean is the focal point of a new sweeping initiative.

The Milne Ice Shelf on the northwest coast of Nunavut’s Ellesmere Island has broken up, reducing in size by almost half and setting large ice islands adrift in the Arctic Ocean.

These researchers repurposed their food disinfection technology to clean N95 masks used in hospitals and long-term care homes.

Canadian science innovators are leading the fight against COVID-19. These are just some of the many innovative solutions that are being developed in our own backyard.

By Abigail Cukier We asked, they answered In late January, a Toronto man who had travelled to Wuhan, China – the epicentre of COVID-19 – was diagnosed with Canada’s first presumptive case of the virus. Since then, there have been more than 500,000 confirmed cases (as of mid-December), and almost 15,000 deaths. The pandemic continues to affect almost every aspect …

Currently, up to 50 percent of vaccine doses are discarded before use due to exposure to suboptimal temperatures.