/channels/taxonomy/term/10569/all en /channels/channels/news/abrupt-shifts-arctic-climate-projected-302076 <p>Researchers from Æ»¹ûÒùÔº project that as the permafrost continues to degrade, the climate in various regions of the Arctic could potentially change abruptly, in the relatively near future. Their research, which was published today in <em><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-019-0614-6">Nature Climate Change</a></em>, also suggests that as the permafrost degrades, the severity of wildfires will double from one year to the next and remain at the new and higher rate for regions in the Northwestern Territories and the Yukon.</p> Tue, 29 Oct 2019 16:03:00 +0000 webfull 154862 at /channels /channels/news/nearing-limits-life-earth-257865 <p><em><strong>By Katherine Gombay, </strong><strong><a href="//www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/">Æ»¹ûÒùÔº Newsroom</a></strong></em></p> <p><em>Failure to find active microbes in coldest Antarctic soils has implications for search for life on Mars</em></p> Tue, 19 Jan 2016 15:27:40 +0000 webfull 115267 at /channels /channels/news/nearing-limits-life-earth-257977 <h3>Failure to find active microbes in coldest Antarctic soils has implications for search for life on Mars</h3> <p>Natural Resource Sciences professor Lyle Whyte and postdoctoral fellow Jackie Goordial talk about their research which suggests that it is unlikely that it is unlikely that there is any microbial life to be found on Mars.</p> Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:32:49 +0000 webfull 115343 at /channels