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Frozen in time

The information we extract from ice cores doesn’t only tell us what past climates were like. It can give us clues about what caused climates to change, too.
This garden rocks

A professor created a Geoscience Garden at the University of Alberta main campus so that students can study large rock specimens before heading out in the field
Opposition MLA pushes for wildfire policy reforms in B.C., such as following Australia's 'stay or go' model

Professor Tara McGee said the province would be wise to research the reasons many people in the Shuswap decided not to evacuate.
Meet Monireh Faramarzi, principal investigator of the Watershed Science and Modelling Lab

Part two in a series that explores the people behind the University of Alberta’s seventh-place score in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings.
Canadians are being crushed by a housing crisis. Are short-term rentals to blame?

Affordable Housing Solutions Coordinator, Laura Murphy, is working to shed light on how STRs and the financialization of housing affects tenants in smaller cities like Edmonton.
Edmonton mom, kid share ‘mind-blowing’ dinosaur fossil find

University of Alberta professor Murray Gingras said it can be hard to identify a bone like the one Carlyle found since it is quite small and weathered.
Gavin Bradley, paleontology lecturer, wins prestigious international poetry award

Science and art are ways of understanding the world and communicating what we understand.
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