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Exploring underneath glaciers and amidst open-ocean eddies is not your standard water cooler talk.

Ecologists at the University of Toronto are sounding the alarm after measuring the scale of human response needed to reduce future levels of plastic in the world’s aquatic ecosystems and manage what’s already floating around out there.

An interdisciplinary research team at Queen’s University is taking the first step in establishing a local group in the National Sewage Sentinel Surveillance in Canada.

For just over two decades, students and post-doctoral researchers working with the University of Toronto’s Kimberly Strong and Kaley Walker have traveled to Eureka, Nunavut, in the Canadian High Arctic each spring to make unique measurements of atmospheric trace gases.

Alaska’s living reefs – which house an entire ecosystem – are collapsing thanks to climate change and the disappearance of sea otters, new research published in the journal Science reveals.