/macdonald/taxonomy/term/6752/all en /macdonald/channels/news/mcgill-establishes-research-chair-address-climate-change-north-352101 <p>As Canadians experience a year of record-breaking wildfires, floods, and extreme heat, experts are warning that these conditions will persist and likely intensify over the coming decades as we experience the escalating effects of climate change and global warming. These impacts are being felt even more acutely in northern regions of the planet, where temperatures are rising at four times the global rate.</p> Wed, 18 Oct 2023 17:25:13 +0000 charly.blais@mcgill.ca 1521126 at /macdonald /macdonald/channels/news/take-virtual-trip-arctic-dorothy-newton-swales-mcgills-mother-botany-347888 <p>Heather Rogers, a Digital Humanities student at MA, has taken her research on Dorothy Newton Swales (BSc Plant Pathology, 1921; MSc Bacteriology 1922; Ph.D. University of Manitoba, Mycology 1931) and transformed it into an interactive website so that others can follow the six decades of botanical collections made by the herbarium's first woman curator (1964-1971) and longest serving mentor to young botanists.</p> Thu, 20 Apr 2023 17:12:54 +0000 valerie.mcleod@mcgill.ca 1288092 at /macdonald /macdonald/channels/news/200-years-mcgills-botanical-history-inspires-montreal-artists-340043 <p>Two-hundred years ago, a young man frequented swamps, stream banks and thickets, collecting wild plants across what would become the urban core of the city of Montreal. He had recently returned home from Edinburgh, where he had gone to be receive medical training, learning there also techniques of drying and preserving plant specimens, botany and medicine then being sister-subjects.</p> Thu, 23 Jun 2022 13:21:30 +0000 valerie.mcleod@mcgill.ca 936554 at /macdonald