Environment Earth and Resources News Archive
![Oil Sheen Reflection on Water](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/sheen_reflection-tyler-black-150x150.jpg)
Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources
Environment and Geography grad wins NSERC photo contest
March 1, 2021 —
Tyler Black [M.Sc. (Environment & Geography)/20] recently won a Jury Prize and a People’s Choice Award in the 2020 NSERC photography contest for his photo of an oil slick on a test lake at the Experimental Lakes Area reflecting the surrounding forest and sky.
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Research and International
On the wing
March 1, 2021 —
How birds changed their migrations during lockdowns
![Dr. Feiyue Wang Professor at the Centre for Earth Observation Science & Canada Research Chair (Tier 1)](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/FeiyueWang1_web-150x150.jpg)
UM prof receives national award for environmental research
February 18, 2021 —
Canada Research Chair honoured by professional chemistry organization
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Sustainability
Sustainability Day: Taking action for the Sustainable Development Goals
February 17, 2021 —
UM community invited to participate in full-day virtual program
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Faculty of Science
UM helps launch first-of-its-kind COVID-19 Indigenous app
February 12, 2021 —
A groundbreaking app created by University of Manitoba researchers in close collaboration with Indigenous partners will help support Indigenous communities around the world as they act to caretake their own health and well-being
![Valley bottoms in this ‘Arctic desert’ include the vibrant color of the vegetation: yellows, greens, and reds mark a dense ground. // Photo by Robie Macdonald/University of Manitoba](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Thomsen-River-UMToday-150x150.jpg)
The marvels of Banks Island
February 1, 2021 —
'In a typical year, perhaps a dozen people visit Auluvik National Park in Canada’s Northwest Territories. Luckily, one of those visitors brought back some outstanding photos.'
![Thaw slumps are also a sign of the permafrost warming. These can be seen just barely in the satellite image as small dark regions along cliff faces, both facing the ocean and within the river drainage basins. Erosion and slumping expose ancient organic carbon to the air and the hydrosphere, thus providing an extensive positive feedback to climate warming.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/08-Thomsen-River-2015-09921_web-150x150.jpg)
Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources
Thomsen River Estuary, Banks Island: Photo Essay
January 28, 2021 —
NASA and UM team up to show the remote beauty of Northern Canada
![An exemplary skull of a gorgonopsian collected from Zambia in 2018 and currently at the Burke Museum of Natural History. The upper canine of this specimen is broken and would have extended below the lower jaw. Photo credit: Brandon Peecook](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/NHCCLB936-150x150.jpg)
Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources
UM researcher part of team that finds surprising connection between dinosaurs and mammals
December 23, 2020 —
Kirstin Brink is part of a team that discovered that gorgonopsians, early ancestors to mammals and not related to dinosaurs, have very similar tooth structure to carnivorous dinosaurs.
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Eleven new Canada Research Chairs awarded to UM faculty
December 16, 2020 —
New CRC research explores a range of health, social and science fields
![Arctic shrub Betula nana Northern Alaska; Photo: Agata Buchwal](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Betula-nana-Northern-Alaska-Photo-by-Agata-Buchwal-150x150.jpg)
Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources
Declining Arctic sea ice drives divergent arctic shrub growth
December 15, 2020 —
Arctic sea ice has been in steep decline over the last two decades. Meanwhile, tundra shrub abundance has been increasing in many regions of the Arctic.