/newsroom/taxonomy/term/7664/all en /newsroom/rowan-barrett Fri, 19 Aug 2022 21:08:19 +0000 lawrence.chiang@mail.mcgill.ca 288318 at /newsroom /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 /newsroom/channels/news/will-climate-change-outpace-species-adaptation-329263 <p>Many species might be left vulnerable in the face of climate change, unable to adapt their physiologies to respond to rapid global warming. According to a team of international researchers, species evolve heat tolerance more slowly than cold tolerance, and the level of heat they can adapt to has limits.</p> Wed, 03 Mar 2021 22:24:40 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 256647 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/cnn-birds-learn-new-behaviors-less-likely-go-extinct-says-study-321496 <p>Now, a new study has found that birds that are able to change their behavior in this way are less likely to become extinct than those that do not adapt.</p> Tue, 07 Apr 2020 17:09:32 +0000 amelia.souffrant@mail.mcgill.ca 207075 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/adaptation-competition-and-predation-may-not-be-driving-force-scientists-thought-320738 <p>Species adapt to their local climates, but how often they adapt to their local communities remains a mystery. To find answers, researchers at ±«ÓãÖ±²¥ and the University of British Columbia examined over 125 studies testing local adaptation in over 100 species of plants and animals in an article published in <a href="https://doi.org/10.1086/707323"><i>The American Naturalist</i></a>.</p> Mon, 24 Feb 2020 14:44:41 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 199491 at /newsroom /newsroom/susan-j-gaskin Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 23946 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/why-do-some-fish-thrive-oil-polluted-water-258096 <p><strong><em>By Melody Enguix</em></strong></p> <p><strong><a href="/newsroom">±«ÓãÖ±²¥ Newsroom</a></strong></p> <p>When scientists from ±«ÓãÖ±²¥ learned that some fish were proliferating in rivers and ponds polluted by oil extraction in Southern Trinidad, it caught their attention. They thought they had found a rare example of a species able to adapt to crude oil pollution.</p> Mon, 25 Jan 2016 16:19:43 +0000 nima.adibpour@mail.mcgill.ca 25147 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/overcoming-hurdles-arctic-climate-change-adaptation-257495 <p><strong><em>By Katherine Gombay, <a href="/newsroom">±«ÓãÖ±²¥ Newsroom</a></em></strong></p> <p><em>Arctic peoples inherently able to adapt given changes to various non-climatic factors</em></p> Tue, 22 Dec 2015 19:03:31 +0000 nima.adibpour@mail.mcgill.ca 25049 at /newsroom