panama /newsroom/taxonomy/term/2840/all en Indigenous territories fight climate change /newsroom/channels/news/indigenous-territories-fight-climate-change-332423 <p>In a recent study in <a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0245110" title="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0245110"><i>PLOS ONE</i></a>, researchers from 6 different countries, including <a href="/neo/students/currentstudents">Camilo Alejo</a> and <a href="/biology/catherine-potvin">Catherine Potvin</a> of the Department of Biology at ±«ÓãÖ±²¥, examined the importance of Indigenous Territories in climate change mitigation across Panama and the Amazon Basin.</p> Tue, 17 Aug 2021 14:44:50 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 272661 at /newsroom Crocodile evolution rebooted by Ice Age glaciations /newsroom/channels/news/crocodile-evolution-rebooted-ice-age-glaciations-328615 <p>Crocodiles are resilient animals from a lineage that has survived for over 200 million years. Skilled swimmers, crocodiles can travel long distances and live in freshwater or marine environments. But they can’t roam far on land. American crocodiles (<i>Crocodylus acutus</i>) are found in the Caribbean and Pacific coasts of the Neotropics but they arrived in the Pacific before Panama existed, according to <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/evo.14139">researchers from ±«ÓãÖ±²¥</a>.</p> Mon, 15 Feb 2021 21:33:32 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 256622 at /newsroom Bringing climate-change lessons out of the lab /newsroom/channels/news/bringing-climate-change-lessons-out-lab-225637 Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:56:52 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 18470 at /newsroom