Environment and Geography News Archive
The Conversation: Reopen recreation spaces after COVID-19 for the good of the public, not the individual
January 8, 2021 —
Yet the lessons from our first reopening strategies last spring make it clear that we have a number of very important questions arising about leisure, recreation and public space
Extreme precipitation events have always occurred, but are they changing?
September 4, 2020 —
The evidence that human activity has warmed the global climate over the past century is incontrovertible. Individual extreme events are, however, influenced by many other factors.
Op-ed: We should know our limits
April 27, 2020 —
Vaclav Smil: 'It should not be so hard to admit that, at this point, we do not know much more than we do know.'
CBC: Cree-speaking raven puppet gives COVID-19 health information
April 13, 2020 —
Public health video draws from Cree culture to spread advice to people in remote First Nations
COVID-19 Rapid Response Program funding for studies in Indigenous populations
March 6, 2020 —
Two University of Manitoba researchers have received nearly $1 million in COVID-19 Rapid Response Program funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for research projects that focus on public health responses in Indigenous populations.
The Guardian: Vaclav Smil: ‘Growth must end. Our economist friends don’t seem to realise that’
September 23, 2019 —
The scientist and author on his latest book – an epic, multidisciplinary analysis of growth – and why humanity’s endless expansion must stop
Wpg Free Press: Manitoba MP attending Churchill summit to carve out town’s role once railway repaired
June 8, 2018 —
A team of University of Manitoba scientists are aboard the CCGS Amundsenicebreaker, lead by David Barber, and are scheduled to arrive July 2 at the Port of Churchill.
Canoes, Colonialism and Reconciliation
June 4, 2018 —
Please join us on Friday, June 8, for a screening of two films about canoes, followed by a Q&A with filmmakers Derrick LaMere and Hillary Beattie.
Grasslands on the Manitoba Escarpment: The Prairies in the Rural Municipality of Stanley
April 20, 2018 —
A book launch will be held on May 12, 2018, from 1-2 p.m. at the Pembina Hills Arts Center in Morden, MB
Microplastics found inside fish from Lake Winnipeg
February 16, 2018 —
'This will be an issue that is around for some time simply due to how long it takes plastics to degrade'