A new initiative led by U of T Mississauga’s Centre for Urban Environments (CUE) will create the first large-scale data collection system to understand the complex relationship between cities, the local environment and global climate change.
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Global Institute for Food Security Scientist Awarded Prestigious International Food Innovation Prize
Leon Kochian, Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) at the University of Saskatchewan (Usask), has won the 2019 Arrell Global Food Innovation Award for “global excellence in food innovation.”
Cornell Student Finds Invasive Water Flea In Oneida Lake
The spiny water flea – a nasty, predatory and invasive zooplankton species – was discovered Sept. 16 in Oneida Lake by a Cornell student at the Cornell Biological Field Station at Shackelton Point in Bridgeport, New York.
Scientists Retrace Monarch’s Toxin-Immunity Evolution
Small genetic changes prevent a normally fatal poison from killing monarch butterflies.
From Sleeping Cell to Assassin – How Immune Cells Work
Scientists at the University of Dundee have carried out one of the most comprehensive studies into how immune cells sense and respond to their environment to fight infection and destroy tumours.
Disease Trends In Sea Creatures Herald Oceanic Changes
The health of Earth’s oceans is rapidly worsening, and newly published Cornell-led research has examined changes in reported diseases across undersea species at a global scale over a 44-year period.