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December 13, 2021
The supply of farmed seafood such as salmon and mussels are projected to drop 16 per cent globally by 2090 if no action is taken to mitigate climate change, according to a new UBC study.
Ocean-farmed seafood or mariculture is often seen as a panacea to the problems of depleted stocks of wild fish...
November 15, 2021
Global law enforcement agencies are already using the new method
UBC researchers have trained computers to predict the next designer drugs before they are even on the market, technology that could save lives.
Law enforcement agencies are in a race to identify and regulate new versions of dangerous...
November 8, 2021
A global team of scientists, including researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC), have detected thirty-five new gravitational wave events, including colliding black holes and neutron stars. The new events, detailed in today’s paper, bring the total number of observed events to 90...
October 28, 2021
Researchers have found the two-year heatwave known as ‘the Blob’ may have temporarily dampened the Pacific’s ‘biological pump,’ which shuttles carbon from the surface ocean to the deep sea where it can be stored for millennia.
Canadian and European researchers, in collaboration with the U.S....
October 14, 2021
Weather and climate disasters in the United States have cost more than $100 billion this year, according to reports from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association. British Columbia’s late June heat dome claimed between 500 and 600 lives—and the resulting wildfires will cost provincial...
October 12, 2021
A popular belief that there are fewer Chinook salmon during the summer in Canadian waters for southern resident killer whales, compared to an abundance of fish for northern resident killer whales, has been debunked by a study led by scientists at the University of British Columbia.
In a paper...
October 1, 2021
Extremely hot years will wipe out hundreds of thousands of tonnes of fish available for catch in a country’s waters in this century, on top of projected decreases to fish stocks from long-term climate change, a new UBC study projects.
Researchers from the UBC Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries...
September 23, 2021
When the Universe was three billion years old, it experienced the most prolific period of star birth in its history.
But when astronomers at the University of Massachusetts, UBC and the University of Toronto used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)...
September 22, 2021
Dr. Eric Taylor’s (PhD ‘89) research focuses on the evolution and conservation of freshwater fishes. The UBC zoologist is also an avid angler. His new book, Rivers Run Through Us: A Natural and Human History of Great Rivers of North America, weaves together the social and ecological stories of some...
September 17, 2021
The capacity of coral reefs to provide ecosystem services relied on by millions of people worldwide has declined by half since the 1950s, according to a new University of British Columbia-led study.
The study offers the first comprehensive look at what climate change, overfishing, and habitat...
