Posts Tagged: climate change
Western experts available to speak on the potential of nuclear fusion
December 13, 2022
Tuesday morning it was announced that scientists studying fusion energy at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California were able to…
Western experts available to speak on climate change during COP27 conference
November 2, 2022
With the goal of implementing collective climate goals outlined under the Paris Agreement delegates and climate experts will gather at…
Experts available to speak about the declaration of monarch butterflies as an endangered species
July 25, 2022
Recently, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature added the migratory monarch butterflies to its Red List of Threatened…
Hibernating insects regrow muscles on demand: study
July 19, 2022
New research from Western University has found potato beetles can break down and regrow muscles on demand, allowing them to preserve energy over the winter.
Western-led research team tracks 100 tornadoes in 2021
January 31, 2022
Northern Tornadoes Project investigated 400 severe weather events in 2021, verifying 100 tornadoes across the country in 2021. This research surged the verified count of tornadoes in Canada by an impressive 170 per cent.
Climate change expert available to media for comment on record-breaking heat temperatures
June 28, 2021
Climate scientists like Western’s Gordon McBean have projected that the heatwave that previously occurred once every two decades will occur every three to five years by 2050. McBean is available to media for comment on Canada’s record breaking temperatures.
Climate resilience key in pandemic recovery
June 24, 2021
New climate change report led by Gordon McBean highlights next steps for Canadian communities post COVID-19. McBean is a long-standing contributor to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an organization that was jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore in 2007.
First evidence in more than a decade of endangered and ‘weird’ shark traveling to Canada
November 13, 2019
Named one of the world’s ‘weirdest’ animals by National Geographic, basking sharks are also the second largest shark after the…
Giant beavers didn’t eat wood and that’s likely why they didn’t survive the last Ice Age
May 9, 2019
North American beavers, which weigh between 25 to 75 pounds as adults, are the largest rodents living in Canada. That’s…
Evidence of human influence and pollution found in remote mountain lakes
February 8, 2016
A new interdisciplinary study at Western University has shown for the first time that 70 per cent of nitrates in…
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