Compelling op-ed co-authored by Professors Rebecca Rooney and David Schindler urges Canada to work with Indigenous Peoples to protect biodiversity of lands and oceans






Last year, judges at the 28th International Berkeley Springs WaterTasting competition deemed the best bottled water in the world to be an Australian brand “infused with the sound frequencies of love, the moon, and light spectrums of the rainbow”.
All signs point toward a future affected by climate change.
From higher temperatures to droughts and more extreme weather, experts are searching for ways to sustain our growing population, as well as our planet.
Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change, the Honourable Catherine McKenna, has announced recipients of the highly competitive “Advancing Climate Change Science in Canada” initiative. Of the nine recipients announced today, two projects led by Waterloo researchers were selected for funding over three years.
In a new paper published in the journal Environmental Science and Policy, authors Tariq Aziz and Water Institute member Philippe Van Cappellen compare the spatial distribution and use intensity across Southern Ontario of a bundle of six ecosystem services: water provisioning and supply, water quality, carbon sequestration, carbon storage, flood regulation, and nature-based tourism.
Dr. Homa Kheyrollah Pour, a member of Ecohydrology research group, has been named the Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Remote Sensing of Environmental Change and will join the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU) starting July 1st, 2019. Homa is an expert in using satellite observations and field data to study cold regions hydrology.