New research that provides the most comprehensive calculations of aviation’s impact on the climate finds that global air travel and transport is responsible for 3.5 percent of all drivers of climate change from human activities.

Two cows. Same University of Wyoming McGuire Ranch pasture northeast of Laramie near Sybille Canyon.

 SFU researchers have recently received $300,000 in funding from Innovate BC’s Ignite Program   to develop technology that allows farmers to grow more food with less pesticides.

Ground transportation is responsible for almost a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions globally—and account for about 40 percent of emissions in British Columbia.

A new study overturns the conclusions of an enormously influential paper in 2019 that examined various management actions to slow the decline of endangered mountain caribou herds from BC and Alberta.

Governments and industry are looking to university researchers for the tools to help them explore every aspect of building design through a lens of energy efficiency.

A peninsula that typically sees one typhoon per year might face three landfalling storms in two weeks.

NASA’s Terra satellite’s visible image of Typhoon Haishen revealed a small “pinhole” eye surrounded by several hundred miles of thunderstorms spiraling around it as it continued moving north though the Northwestern Pacific Ocean.

While scientists around the world are confined to their homes during the COVID-19 pandemic, Earth observing satellites continue to orbit and send back images that reveal connections between the pandemic and the environment.

For more than three decades, the Gwich’in Native community has helped to fight off repeated attempts by Republican administrations and fossil fuel companies to drill for oil and gas in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, the largest remaining stretch of wilderness in the United States.