The University of Victoria experts listed below are available to media for comment on topics related to the UN Climate Change Conference COP29, which takes place from Nov. 11-22 in Baku, Azerbaijan. This year’s conference theme is “in solidarity for a green world.”
The following UVic experts are available to media to discuss environmental and climate change topics ahead of Earth Day (April 22).
A list of experts available to media for comments on topics related to the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 UAE, which takes place from Nov. 30 to Dec. 12 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Cigarette ads are banned. Let’s do the same for fossil fuels.
Ryan Rhodes discusses research-based tips for sticking to new healthy lifestyle goals, as published in The Conversation Canada.
Got health goals? Research-based tips for healthy lifestyles
In a newly published paper in Scientific Reports, Hillis and co-authors St. Claire, Eric Guiry University of Leicester and UVic professors Iain McKechnie and Chris Darimont provide the first specific estimate of ancient dog diets on the BC coast using zooarchaeological data.
UVic's CanAssist has launched a new website aimed at improving independence and safety among BC seniors. Ability411.ca provides information and personalized answers to seniors' questions about technologies and equipment.
Linda Campbell, now a cook in Mystic Market, was also behind menu revisions at Village Greens, UVic's vegetarian and vegan food outlet. She plans a day's cooking on a scale that few outside the restaurant industry would dream of.
UVic plant biologist Peter Constabel has found that that salal—a wild berry common to coastal areas of western North America—is an antioxidant superstar, packed with higher levels of health-promoting plant chemicals than most other berries out there.
Tracking the salmon-eating habits of grizzly and black bears for nearly two decades has revealed some surprising results for UVic geography PhD candidate and Raincoast scientist Megan Adams. She hopes the study will inform land-use managers on how the bear-salmon system goes well beyond the coastal areas into interior habitats of BC.
A new documentary, The Thinking Garden, about a unique farming collective in a small South African village carries lessons of hope and resilience. It was written and produced by UVic scholars Christine Welsh and Elizabeth Vibert and it officially launches on March 1.
A groundbreaking discovery by UVic paleoanthropologist April Nowell has provided the first direct evidence of exploitation by our Stone Age ancestors of specific animals for subsistence.
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How smart were human-like species of the Stone Age? New research published in the Journal of Archaeological Science by a team led by paleoanthropologist April Nowell of UVic reveals surprisingly sophisticated adaptations by early humans living 250,000 years ago in a former oasis near Azraq, Jordan.
Art Napoleon was already a national figure when his TV show, Moosemeat & Marmalade, premiered on APTN in January 2015. He had performed at the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards, opened for Buffy Sainte-Marie and been interviewed by veteran correspondent Tom Hawthorn for the Globe and Mail in September 2010 for the release of his album Creeland Covers, sung almost exclusively in Cree.
