/channels/taxonomy/term/1021/all en /channels/channels/news/31-m-eight-mcgill-research-projects-337869 <p><i>Eight projects funded through the Canada Foundation for Innovation John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF) and the Government of Quebec acquire new tools and infrastructure to generate new knowledge, from improving breast cancer treatments to understanding the lives of parasitoid insects. </i></p> Tue, 22 Feb 2022 18:22:21 +0000 webfull 178154 at /channels /channels/channels/news/what-rise-oxygen-early-earth-tells-us-about-life-other-planets-337051 <p>When did the Earth reach oxygen levels sufficient to support animal life? Researchers from ƻ����Ժ have discovered that a rise in oxygen levels occurred in step with the evolution and expansion of complex, eukaryotic ecosystems. Their findings represent the strongest evidence to date that extremely low oxygen levels exerted an important limitation on evolution for billions of years.</p> Mon, 31 Jan 2022 20:02:49 +0000 webfull 177479 at /channels /channels/news/mars-too-has-macroweather-240080 <p>Weather, which changes day-to-day due to constant fluctuations in the atmosphere, and climate, which varies over decades, are familiar. More recently, a third regime, called “macroweather,” has been used to describe the relatively stable regime between weather and climate. Thu, 13 Nov 2014 14:53:36 +0000 webfull 106501 at /channels /channels/news/expert-hurricane-matthew-263192 <p>“Hurricane 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.” (<a href="https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/hurricane-matthew-caribbean-haiti-jamaica-cuba-bahamas-forecast-oct2">The Weather Network</a>)</p> Thu, 06 Oct 2016 17:59:00 +0000 webfull 121920 at /channels /channels/news/mcgill-expert-record-high-greenhouse-gases-238773 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 15:30:32 +0000 webfull 105136 at /channels