Jeffrey Brook, a University of Toronto expert in air quality and health, spent nearly a year reviewing data from Canada’s Joint Oil Sands Monitoring (JOSM) program.
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Fault Lines: Research Could Protect Cities In Active Earthquake Zones
A study from the University of Toronto Mississauga reveals new clues about an earthquake that rocked Argentina’s San Juan province in the 1950s.
Q&A: How Do We Design Buildings That Enable Occupants to Thrive?
Americans spend 87% of their time indoors, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Researchers Examine Prairie Twister Outbreak
Two campgrounds in ruins. Houses lifted and shifted on their foundations. Thousands of trees felled as if by a giant meteorological axe.
Heat Transport Through Single Molecules
Combining novel theoretical and experimental approaches, researchers from the University of Michigan (USA), Kookmin University (South Korea), the University of Konstanz (Germany) and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (Japan) have successfully measured and described the thermal conductance of single-molecule junctions – a key quantity in nanoscale transport phenomena that has so far eluded direct experimental determination.
UNB Research Lab Receives Federal Funding For Spruce Budworm Study
A research lab at the University of New Brunswick has received federal funding for a study into the impact of spruce budworm outbreaks on the environment and climate change.


