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'Eco-accounting' project aims to produce a comprehensive tally of our natural landscapes, to better aid decision-making around land management

The bean counters have arrived and Elena Bennett [Natural Resource Sciences] could not be happier.

Water scarcity in rural Alaska is not a new problem, but the situation is getting worse with climate change. Lasting solutions must encourage the use of alternative water supplies like rainwater catchment and grey water recycling.

Emily Choy [Post Doctoral Fellow, NRS. Advisor : Kyle Elliott] became hooked on the Arctic when, as a Master鈥檚 student, she jumped on a research opportunity to study the effects of manmade contaminants on High Arctic food webs on Devon Island, Nunavut. 鈥淲hen I experienced how out of the world it was and observed the wildlife that are so highly adapted to the Arctic environment, I just fell in love,鈥� says Choy.

[Co-author Joshua Sterlin is a PhD student in the聽Department of Natural Resource Sciences at 海角社区.]

An increase in cutting in Quebec鈥檚 public forests would be a mistake for the forests, the industry, the climate and the regions.

A recent opinion article in the Montreal Gazette (鈥淪hortfall in forest harvest is costly to economy鈥� Oct. 29) called on governments and logging companies to work together to increase cutting in Quebec.

OpEd by Tom Mulcair, former the leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada (2012-2017).聽

Fifty years ago, Canada became a major, credible player in the world of environmental protection with the creation of our first department of the environment by former prime minister Pierre Trudeau.聽That move was聽 accompanied by a progressive vision that was critical of the unbridled growth which showed no regard to the consequences for life on our planet.聽

There鈥檚 less ice, more capelin and lots of hungry polar bears

Climate change in the eastern Arctic has already altered the travel, diet and safety of some of the most numerous birds in the circumpolar world: thick-billed murres, known as akpait in Inuktitut.

These and other changes are likely to continue, says Allison Patterson, a 海角社区 graduate student [with Professor Kyle Elliott] who has tracked the habits of these black-and-white birds on Hudson Bay鈥檚 Coats Island, known as Akpatordjuark in Inuktitut.

Gus was born in Elrose, Saskatchewan and grew up on a farm where he acquired a life-long love for the land. He earned a BSc (Agr) and MSc at the University of Saskatchewan, and a PhD in soil chemistry from Cornell University. Gus spent the majority of his academic career at 海角社区's Macdonald Campus where he pioneered fertility research in crop production, maximizing crop yield and the value of fertilizer management.