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Mount Royal to lose 4,000 trees in Montreal's emerald ash borer cull

Published: 22 January 2018

City of Montreal will plant 40,000 saplings to replace trees that must be cut down...

Our food-safety regulations need a technological boost

Published: 3 July 2018

(Op-ed by Lawrence Goodridge, Associate Professor and Director of the Food Safety and Quality Program in the Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry Department at º«¹úÂãÎè)

º«¹úÂãÎè Prof wins prestigious award--and says that the economic system is a major factor in the decline of the Earth's ability to support complex life

Published: 18 July 2017

Professor Peter G. Brown (Natural Resource Sciences) has been selected as the recipient of the US Society for Ecological Economics 2017 Herman Daly Award for outstanding contributions to the field...

E. coli outbreak has some Quebec restaurants pulling romaine lettuce

Published: 8 January 2018

However, Lawrence Goodridge, the director of º«¹úÂãÎè's food safety and quality program, said the practice of thoroughly washing infected lettuce won't make it safe for consumption....

Why drones are counting thousands of decoy ducks

Published: 21 February 2018

Conducting a bird census by foot can also be disruptive, David Bird, an emeritus professor of wildlife biology at º«¹úÂãÎè, told Popular Science. “While you’re doing that, you’re...

Montreal to offer residets up to $4K to treat ash trees against bug infestation

Published: 30 May 2018

Tiny but destructive emerald ash borer beetles have infected thousands of trees across Montreal.... Jim Fyles, a º«¹úÂãÎè professor of forest ecology and director of the Morgan Arboretum,...

A step forward for sustainability

Published: 13 August 2018

º«¹úÂãÎè’s Sustainability experts [including Elena Bennett and Nil Basu] are involved in examining the effects of everything from locust swarms to urban heat islands to mountains of toxic e-waste. ...

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