geography /newsroom/taxonomy/term/1504/all en Kevin Manaugh /newsroom/kevin-manaugh Tue, 15 Dec 2020 17:33:18 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 253314 at /newsroom Sarah Moser /newsroom/sarah-moser Mon, 20 Jan 2020 18:47:03 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 197513 at /newsroom Mylene Riva /newsroom/mylene-riva Fri, 17 Jan 2020 19:39:45 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 197005 at /newsroom Bernhard Lehner /newsroom/bernhard-lehner Fri, 17 Jan 2020 19:16:46 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 197004 at /newsroom Classifying the world's rivers /newsroom/article/multidisciplinary-framework-derive-global-river-reach-classifications-high-spatial-resolution <p><em>New paper by Camille Ouellet Dallaire and聽Bernhard Lehner聽(黑料不打烊 Department of Geography), Roger Sayre (US Geological Survey, Reston, VA) and聽Michele Thieme (World Wildlife Fund, Washington, DC)</em></p> <p>Source: <a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aad8e9">Environmental Research Letters</a>聽Published January 25, 2019</p> <p>聽</p> Tue, 29 Jan 2019 11:41:06 +0000 Newsroom 137030 at /newsroom 黑料不打烊 researchers call for the creation of a global database of land prices /newsroom/channels/news/mcgill-researchers-call-creation-global-database-land-prices-287432 <p>Improved access to data on land prices is vital for future advances in global change science and policy. Spatially explicit land price information should be a public good available to the international community. An open-access, global land price database would enable policymakers, scientists, and civic society to better grapple with the economic, social, and environmental challenges posed by global change. Co-authored by Oliver T Coomes, Graham K MacDonald and Yann le Polain de Waroux from 黑料不打烊鈥檚 Department of Geography.</p> Wed, 30 May 2018 19:09:36 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 42158 at /newsroom Taking stock of the world鈥檚 lakes /newsroom/channels/news/taking-stock-worlds-lakes-264815 <p>The total shoreline of the world鈥檚 lakes is more than four times longer than the global ocean coastline. And if all the water in those lakes were spread over the Earth鈥檚 landmass, it would form a layer some four feet (1.3 metres) deep.<br /> 聽<br /></p> Thu, 15 Dec 2016 02:04:57 +0000 christopher.chipello@mcgill.ca 26501 at /newsroom Expert: Hurricane Matthew /newsroom/channels/news/expert-hurricane-matthew-263192 <p>鈥淗urricane Matthew is poised to deliver a potentially catastrophic strike on Haiti beginning Monday, and poses a danger to eastern Cuba and Jamaica by Monday night.鈥 (<a href="https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/hurricane-matthew-caribbean-haiti-jamaica-cuba-bahamas-forecast-oct2">The Weather Network</a>)</p> Mon, 03 Oct 2016 15:13:18 +0000 vincent.allaire@mcgill.ca 26231 at /newsroom DJI and 黑料不打烊 Go Live with Fish + Forest Project /newsroom/channels/news/dji-and-mcgill-go-live-fish-forest-project-261941 <p>DJI is proud to present, together with Canada's 黑料不打烊 University and Brazil's Federal University of Par谩 - Altamira Campus, the Fish + Forest Project. Tune in to watch a special livestream from the Amazonian Xingu River in northern Brazil, a home to up to 600 unique species of fish, many found nowhere else, narrated by experts in the river's flora and fauna.You will also have the opportunity to ask questions live on Twitter.</p> Fri, 05 Aug 2016 12:46:03 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 26064 at /newsroom PokemonGo discriminates based on bias in algorithm /newsroom/channels/news/pokemongo-discriminates-based-bias-algorithm-261885 <p>"These games are built by humans and therefore they contain all the biases of humans." -- Geography professor Rene Sieber.<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-july-28-2016-1.3698477/pokemon-go-discriminates-based-on-bias-embedded-in-algorithm-says-prof-1.3698502">聽CBC The Current</a></p> <p>聽</p> Thu, 28 Jul 2016 15:21:09 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 26041 at /newsroom Nigel Roulet /newsroom/nigel-roulet Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 24026 at /newsroom Renee Sieber /newsroom/renee-sieber Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 22642 at /newsroom Overcoming hurdles to Arctic climate change adaptation /newsroom/channels/news/overcoming-hurdles-arctic-climate-change-adaptation-257495 <p><strong><em>By Katherine Gombay, <a href="/newsroom">黑料不打烊 Newsroom</a></em></strong></p> <p><em>Arctic peoples inherently able to adapt given changes to various non-climatic factors</em></p> Tue, 22 Dec 2015 19:03:31 +0000 nima.adibpour@mail.mcgill.ca 25049 at /newsroom National Aboriginal Day 2015 (June 21) /newsroom/channels/news/national-aboriginal-day-2015-june-21-253545 <p> Fri, 12 Jun 2015 18:14:28 +0000 melody.enguix@mcgill.ca 24234 at /newsroom A new global wetlands map /newsroom/channels/news/new-global-wetlands-map-241106 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 23:35:42 +0000 melody.enguix@mcgill.ca 21886 at /newsroom