Wetland methane cycling increased during a rapid global warming event 56 million years ago and could foreshadow changes the methane cycle will experience in the future, according to new research led by the University of Bristol.
Wetlands...
source: University of Bristol
Future climate change will cause a regionally uneven shifting of the tropical rain belt — a narrow band of heavy precipitation near the equator — according to researchers at the University of California, Irvine...
source: University of California, Irvine
Over 20 projects are being co-funded through Natural Resources Canada’s (NRCan’s) Building Regional Adaptation Capacity and Expertise (BRACE) Program, each focusing on themes such as infrastructure, natural resources, or communities....
source: Natural Resources Canada
Deadline for submission: Jan. 31, 2021
The GeoNiagara 2021 Local Organizing Committee invites members of the Canadian and international geotechnical and hydrogeological communities to contribute papers for presentation at the conference.
source: 74th Canadian Geotechnical Conference and 14th Joint CGS/IAH-CNC Groundwater Conference
Jan. 26, 2021 from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. EST
Despite the future uncertainty of climate change, emerging contaminants, regulatory changes and unforeseen challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic, operational decisions in water, wastewater and...
source: Canadian Water Network
Deadline to apply for funding: Jan. 29, 2021
Through the Canada Summer Jobs program, the Government of Canada provides employers with wage subsidies to create quality job placements for youth in safe, inclusive and healthy work...
source: Employment and Social Development Canada
As per the recommendation of the Registration Committee, the PGO Council has made a decision to allow flexibility on the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirement for 2020. Given that the pandemic situation may have made it...
source: PGO
On a beach on a remote island in eastern Papua New Guinea, a country located in the southwestern Pacific to the north of Australia, garnet sand reveals an important geologic discovery. Similar to messages in bottles that have travelled across the oceans, sediments derived...
source: Syracuse University
Research led by the University of Wyoming shows that physical weathering is far more important than previously recognized in the breakdown of rock in mountain landscapes. Because it is difficult to measure,...
source: University of Wyoming
Close to 5,700 lakes in the Northern Hemisphere may permanently lose ice cover this century, 179 of them in the next decade, at current greenhouse gas emissions despite a possible polar vortex this year, researchers at York University...
source: York University
Construction has been completed at the first of two sites in South Bruce ahead of the start of borehole drilling, Canada's Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) has announced. The boreholes are part of the organization's investigations into the suitability of the...
source: World Nuclear News
Ontario is proposing to streamline written reporting requirements into a single regulation that would apply to all workplaces covered under the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA).
And stakeholders are invited to submit comments on the proposed changes by Feb....
source: Canadian HR Reporter
The spread of the global pandemic and other geopolitical events have underscored the importance of international supply chains.
A new industry group engaged in the critical minerals side of the Canadian mining industry wants to promote...
source: Northern Ontario Business
Life found in ancient water flowing through a northern Ontario mine could eventually help scientists unlock the mystery about whether there was ever life on Mars, according to a scientist at the University of Toronto.
Barbara Sherwood...
source: CTV News
Earthquakes Canada has confirmed at least two earthquakes in the Sudbury-area originated from Creighton Mine.
Greater Sudbury lit-up social media recently to affirm the earthquakes that were felt by residents in the city’s south-end, Copper Cliff, Chelmsford, Valley,...
source: CTV News