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Built Environment & Mobility
Climate Change & Energy

UBC Receives Public Sector Leadership Award at the Second Annual BC Embodied Carbon Awards 2024

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2023 Climate and Wellbeing Education Grants Unveiled!

Climate Change & Energy
Human Well-being & Social Systems
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Addressing the Impacts of Canadian Mining on Communities in Africa

Human Well-being & Social Systems
Natural Resources
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Should the Fraser River Estuary have legal rights?

Ecological Systems
Natural Resources
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Telling Stories: The Humanities in an Age of Planetary Agenda-Setting

Climate Change & Energy
Ecological Systems
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Child-sized, critical steps

Written by Elena Massing , Illustrations by Iman Janmohamed There’s an entire community working together, and through child-sized, yet critical steps, UBC Child Care is nurturing inclusivity in a new generation — at a price people can afford.

Grasslands key to burrowing owl expansion amid climate change, UBC Okanagan study finds

A recent study from Dr. Lilian P. Sales, a postdoctoral fellow working with Dr. Lael Parrott in UBCO’s Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences department , explored the burrowing owl and how it’s adapting to climate change. The iconic species might see its habitat expand toward northern...

LESSONS FROM THE LAND

Project Preserving and Restoring Okanagan Syilx Plants and Endangered Regional Seeds School Okanagan School of Education UBCO Contributors Dr. Sumer Seiki Joshua Smith Becki Jaworski Antreas Pogiatzis

UBCO research shows how healthy plants help rivers meander

Dr. Alessandro Ielpi, an Assistant Professor of Geomorphology in the Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science at UBC Okanagan, has found evidence supporting the theory that vegetation influences whether rivers flow in graceful curves or straighter paths. “That plant life aids in shaping river landscapes...

Sowing the Seeds for Resilient Production Systems

Drought Solutions for Producers Start Small

Advanced wildfire research could save billions, protect vital power supply

Climate change leads engineers to harness the power of green

UBCO researchers look to the past to improve construction sustainability

A technique known as rammed earth construction uses materials that are alternatives to cement and are often more readily available in the environment. One such alternative is wood fly ash, a by-product of pulp mills and coal-fired power plants, explains Dr. Sumi Siddiqua, with UBC Okanagan’s School...

Studying Pollinators on the Frontlines of Resiliency

“Agricultural resiliency comes from having stability in our pollinator populations,” says Dr. Sargent. “Challenges like climate change, for example, clearly cause unpredictability for food producers—by diversifying our agro-ecosystems we will increase their resiliency, ensuring a sustainable food...

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