New book from Stephanie Chang: Legacy in the Landscape
Discover how urban growth drives disaster risk. This accessible book links tech, economy, and landscape with hazards, using a new Urban Risk Dynamics framework and six global cities to guide better planning.
Q&A with Vicky Lucas on the private sector at COP30
With COP30 in full swing, IRES Master’s student Vicky Lucas wants us to watch the attendee list as closely as the agenda.
TA Opportunity for UBC Course: ASIC 220
This is an introductory course to provide a comprehensive introduction to sustainability from a science, economics, and societal perspective.
IRES’s Kate Reynolds situates Palestinian identity within relationships to plants, place and food
Reynolds’s work on Palestinian displacement and ecological identity takes memory from the abstract into the sensory, exploring how taste and smell bring land and people closer together.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow – Transforming Chemical Risk Management with Indigenous Expertise
The candidate will work under the supervision of Dr. Amanda Giang, with supervisory support from Dr. Susan Chiblow, and Dr. Élyse Caron-Beaudoin, on a subproject linking Indigenous experiences on chemicals policy development across scales.
Meet the Canadian Aiding Trump’s ‘Insane’ War on Climate Science
Curious in how climate scientists are responding to Ross McKitrick contributing to Trump administration studies? Dr. Simon Donner’s response is featured in DeSmog saying, “I cannot state enough how insane it is that the same old debunked arguments from the same old debunked individuals are actually emerging in the year 2025.”
Water companies under fire after shocking surge in dangerous incidents: ‘Continued systemic failure’
Dr. David Boyd is featured in The Cool Down for his insights on a new report from the U.K. Environment Agency has found that water company pollution incidents rose across England in 2024.
How ‘eco improv’ can help manage climate anxiety
Anaïs Pronovost-Morgan and Samantha Blackwell are featured in CBC for their workshop on ‘eco improv’. While it won’t fix the climate crisis, it can create community and spaces to empower people
Is your dog keeping Swiss Re’s underwriters up at night?
When asked to rank a range of lifestyle choices – from flying to recycling – by their climate impact. The results were sobering: most people failed to identify the most carbon-intensive actions, while overestimating the significance of lower-impact habits. Dr. Jiaying Zhao is featured in Insurance Business, explaining why and how this can happen.
Emily Shilton, IRES alumna, sounds alarm on vaping as Canada’s “addictive e-waste problem”
Shilton’s research reveals how nicotine vaping devices—small, battery-powered electronics—are slipping through regulatory cracks, causing serious environmental concerns.