Search engine | UdeMNouvelles

curated news in English

9 results:

Julien Arsenault, Jean-François Lapierre and Émilie Jolin around a natural pond in the Grande-Plée-Bleue peat bog in Lévis. Covering nearly 1,500 hectares (15 square kilometres), this peat bog is one of the largest and rarest peat bogs in southern Quebec still in its natural state.

Science

Restoring peatlands to their (almost) natural state

28 November 2024

Article

Wetlands are particularly important carbon sinks, as they cover as little as five and per cent of the Earth's surface area, yet they contain up to 30 per cent of its carbon.

Society

Over $609,000 to UdeM to study carbon in wetlands

12 November 2024

Brief

Benjamin Gwinneth

Society

Benjamin Gwinneth: Uncovering the effects of past climate change

21 October 2024

Article

Mistassini lake

Society

Protecting and promoting Indigenous place names

28 September 2023

Article

The COVID-19 pandemic severely curbed Chinese investment in Sihanoukville, leaving hundreds of buildings unfinished.

Science

How China invests in another Asian country

7 September 2023

Article

James King collects sediment samples in Namibia.

Science

A trail of dust from Africa to Antarctica

19 January 2023

Article

Society

Stop talking about the “refugee crisis”!

26 April 2022

Article

The impact of human activity can be seen wherever the researchers carried out their research, but mainly in Tanzania, Congo and the Central African Republic.

Science

Reforestation plans in Africa could go awry

27 October 2020

Article

Increasingly frequent heat waves in Europe are benefiting the vegetation at high altitudes in the Alps. But this unusual plant growth - which could become more common with climate change - may deplete the water reserves that percolate from mountain streams to the rivers below.

Society

Hot summers in the Alps deplete water reserves

30 June 2020

Article

Faculty experts (fr)

In the media (fr)