Alberta Pandas
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“Young” does not mean “ignorant”
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At the young age of 16, Greta Thunberg is quickly becoming a household name as she continues on her pursuit for climate justice. Smashing the stigma against people with Asperger’s, Greta eloquently speaks to political leaders and the rest of the world, calling everyone to action in the fight against carbon emissions and irreversible climate…
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Laurier Professor Alison Blay-Palmer named finalist for Canadian research impact award for second time
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Alison Blay-Palmer, Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at Laurier and food sustainability researcher, has been named a finalist for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Impact Award for the second time. Blay-Palmer is nominated in the Partnership Category alongside the Food: Locally Embedded, Globally Engaged (FLEdGE) partnership, a project she…
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The Amazon rainforest is on fire, and we should care
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In August of this year, the size and number of forest fires in the Amazon reached a record high and began to spark international concern. The Amazon rainforest is a crucial part of the global ecosystem as it produces as much as 20 per cent of the world’s oxygen, as well as being a major…
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The effects of climate change on Canada’s water bodies
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Researchers at Laurier’s Institute for Water Science are encouraging the public to educate themselves on the troubling water levels that are occuring not just in oceans, but our own backyards as climate change causes warmer temperatures across bodies of water. Contrary to the belief that climate change will cause houses and land to flood with…
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Climate change protests raise awareness in Kitchener-Waterloo Region
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As global protests surrounding the issue of recognizing climate change continue to grow, students and climate change advocates in the Kitchener-Waterloo region arranged their own protest alongside the global “Fridays for Future” climate strike that took place on May 24. Over a hundred activists collected on the steps of Waterloo City Hall to participate in…
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Climate change and why we should care
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In the past week, the weather has been incredibly drastic, cycling from 17 ° Celsius on Feb. 23 to -12 ° Celsius on March 4. These extreme spikes in temperature over the span of a week are signs of how climate change is affecting our planet. Scientific research supports the idea of climate change and…
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Gwynne Dyer talks climate change at Laurier
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Wilfrid Laurier University had the opportunity to host Canadian journalist Gwynne Dyer as he spoke about climate change on September 26. His lecture, based on his new book Climate Wars, revealed his findings from a global two-year tour interviewing scientists, generals, think tanks, diplomats and politicians. Dyer is a freelance journalist, historian, author, columnist, broadcaster,…
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WLU partnership on immigration research
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A joint project between Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Ottawa is the first in the country to examine the relationship between climate change and migration to Canada. The Environmental Migration Project brings together researchers to investigate how droughts, pollution and other environmental issues are affecting migration dynamics in less developed countries and how…
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Laurier women’s curling eliminated from playoff contention
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KELOWNA, B.C. — Chelsea Brandwood knows that in a competition like the Canadian Interuniversity Sport curling championships, all the teams are hard. The Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks women’s curling team was eliminated from playoff contention after a 9-4 loss to the Alberta Pandas on Tuesday afternoon. The Hawks finished the tournament 2-5 after their second…
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Putting a price on carbon emissions
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Let’s talk about the environment. Not our community or our social space, but our physical environment and its state of being. We are in an age where climate change, global warming and other environmental concerns are very contentious and polarizing issues. Due to it being such a broad topic, it becomes challenging to reach a…
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