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Pollution

FishSounds launches

Media release

UVic researchers work with global partners to launch a website dedicated to providing free access to FishSounds. Understanding the sounds made by fish can help to determine the best approaches to address marine pollution and climate change ocean impacts.

Human link to Canada heat wave

UVic climatologist Faron Anslow discusses a new global analysis that says Western Canada heat wave "virtually impossible" without human-caused climate change.

Chocolate fix: How the cocoa industry could end deforestation

The Conversation

Chocolate fix: How the cocoa industry could end deforestation

Safer water

The Torch

Clean water, essential to global health, is the focus of two Civil Engineering research groups.

Sustainable future through clean energy

Mechanical engineer Zuomin Dong and UVic’s Clean Transportation Research Team are working to cut down on the environmental impacts of marine vessels in our oceans.

Fossil fuel database

Media release

A new online mapping tool that highlights the 50 most influential fossil fuel industry players in Western Canada was launched July 3 and helps shed light on who’s who in the oil resource sector.

Humans consume a lot of microplastics

Media release

A new University of Victoria study suggests humans are unknowingly consuming tens of thousands of micrplastics every year.

People eat at least 50,000 plastic particles a year, study finds

The Guardian

People eat at least 50,000 plastic particles a year, study finds

From co-op student to co-op employer

The Ring

Two alumni, and a technology start-up that drives environmental impacts down.

Sounding the alarm on aquatic noise

Media release

A collaborative team led by University of Victoria doctoral student and Hakai Scholar Kieran Cox and fish ecologist Francis Juanes has found that anthropogenic noise is changing the ability of fish to forage, reproduce and avoid predation.

Climate action, economic growth

Media release

A UVic-led knowledge network focused on climate change solutions welcomes the appointment of its executive director to serve as a member of a new advisory council to the BC government providing strategic advice on areas of focus for climate action that go hand in hand with economic growth.

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Pollution

When will net zero be truly possible?

Experts on 2024 Earth Day

A passion for cities

Conserving rockfish with data

UVic ocean scientists #BreakTheBias

FishSounds launches

Human link to Canada heat wave

Chocolate fix: How the cocoa industry could end deforestation

Safer water

Sustainable future through clean energy

Fossil fuel database

Humans consume a lot of microplastics

People eat at least 50,000 plastic particles a year, study finds

From co-op student to co-op employer

Sounding the alarm on aquatic noise

Climate action, economic growth