Natural Resources Institute News Archive
Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources
Celebrating a Legacy: NRI Professor Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award
September 4, 2025 —
Dr. Fikret Berkes from the Natural Resources Institute has been awarded the Certificate of Honor for Lifetime Achievement of Commons Scholarship from the International Association for the Study of the Commons.
Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources
“Net Positive” Carbon Grain Farming – An Interview with PhD Graduate, David Rourke
August 21, 2025 —
In this article, PhD graduate David Rourke from the Natural Resources Institute is interviewed about his approach to lower emissions and how to mitigate the environmental impacts caused by the farming industry.
Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources
CBC Manitoba: How to make communities more resilient to wildfires
June 6, 2025 —
How to make communities more resilient to wildfires
UM faculty and alumni appointed to the Manitoba Clean Environment Commission board
March 3, 2025 —
Seven faculty and alumni have recently been appointed to the Manitoba Clean Environment Commission (CEC) board, an important arms-length provincial agency under the Environment Act.
Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources
“Advanced Introduction to Resilience”: a concise overview of resilience in the context of unprecedented global environmental change
April 30, 2024 —
Dr. Fikret Berkes, Distinguished Professor Emeritus from the Natural Resources Institute, Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources, has recently published a book that explores ecological resilience, with an innovative discussion toward planning for an increasingly unpredictable future.
Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources
A conversation with Ărramăt Indigenous leaders and scholars on holistic healing and physical-spiritual relationships with Mother Nature
October 11, 2023 —
Recently, Ărramăt Pathway 9 facilitated a conversation about “Physical and Spiritual Relationships with Mother Nature in Indigenous holistic healing” at the Natural Resources Institute of the University of Manitoba.
Winnipeg Free Press: Hoping to yield rice results
May 16, 2023 —
An initiative that began last fall has started to grow and might soon see wild rice, a culturally important crop, become a staple on dinner tables.
Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources
I will live for both of us: a history of colonialism, uranium mining, and Inuit resistance
January 17, 2023 —
"I Will Live for Both of Us: A History of Colonialism, Uranium Mining, and Inuit Resistance" discusses political conflicts over proposed uranium mining in the Kivalliq Region of Nunavut.
Squirrel sperm and feet tell a different climate change story
November 28, 2022 —
Two UM studies found that climate change is altering ground squirrels’ sperm and feet, and this warns of big consequences potentially coming to endangered ecosystems.
Not all wildlife recovered in lockdowns, new research finds
September 22, 2022 —
British birds reacted differently to COVID-19 lockdowns than did their North American counterparts, new study reports