Wildfires pollute waterways and could affect their ability to sequester carbon, new University of British Columbia research shows. Dr. Brian Hunt, professor in the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries (IOF), and Emily Brown, IOF research scientist, discuss how wildfires affect our waters and…
June 16, 2025
Can chemical ingredients for life evolve in space and transfer to forming planets? UBC astrochemists are mimicking the cold confines of deep space in the lab. read more
June 10, 2025
UBC’s departments of statistics and computer science have joined forces to create a new undergraduate, interdisciplinary data science program.This new major, which kicks off this fall at UBC Vancouver, joins the existing data science minor and master’s offerings on campus. “We are… read more
May 27, 2025
Close to five million smuggled seahorses worth an estimated CAD$29 million were seized by authorities over a 10-year span, according to a new study that warns the scale of the trade is far larger than current data suggest.Published today in Conservation Biology, the study analyzed online seizure… read more
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