Climate Change

Current laws don’t bar directors from holding roles at pension funds and companies in the oil and gas sector, says corporate governance expert and Osgoode law Prof Barnali Choudhury

A powerful new educational series on the climate crisis and sustainability

York U launches powerful resource to inspire action towards a greener future

New microlecture series features world-renowned academic experts

Why farmers in northern Ghana go to bed hungry. Climate change is affecting the availability of food to the families of farmers

That sinking feeling: Are ice roads holding up under January’s unseasonable warmth?

Vital winter ice road infrastructure may be cracking and sinking under the load of an unseasonably warm start to the new year across Europe and North America, a trend York University Associate Professor Sapna Sharma and team has detailed in a recent study.

York U advances contributions to UN SDGs with $4.05 million toward interdisciplinary research

Research projects to advance knowledge in areas ranging from water remediation, management of infectious disease through technological innovation, the effects of climate change on ecosystems and human populations, visual neuroscience, and understanding the pathway from colonial genocide to building just relationships York University is funding groundbreaking research through the Catalyzing Interdisciplinary Research Clusters (CIRC) program, […]

Digital technologies for biodiversity protection and climate action: Solution or COP out?

New, portable device detects glow emitted by plants to measure their health

When plants are healthy, they emit red light that is nearly impossible to see with the naked eye, but with a new instrument developed at York University, it’s now possible to measure that light whether in a lab or out in the field.

Teaching youth how to change their world

How do you empower today’s youth to change the dial on climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental degradation? You invite more than 800 students from some 30 Ontario high schools to York University’s Change Your World conference.

Politics of climate change offer lessons for fight against antimicrobial resistance

The emerging pandemic of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and challenges to addressing it have parallels with climate change, said experts at a recent online panel on AMR Policy Leadership and Innovation, hosted by York University’s Global Strategy Lab (GSL), as part of World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week. Similar to climate change, AMR is frequently talked about […]