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Fish numbers are rapidly dwindling globally, and fishery subsidies are one of the key drivers behind this decline.
We know the warming seas are forcing some marine life to new waters, but we don’t know much about how fast and how far they are moving. But now you can help scientists find the answers with Redmap.
A melting Arctic means new areas will be open to commercial fishing but scientists – and bordering countries – say they need time to study the ecological and economic risks.
The quest for perfect lush greens is a relatively recent development in the sport’s history.
Research tells us that multilingual literacy matters. But teaching children in Africa to read in their mother tongues as a springboard to literacy in other languages can be a fraught process.
It has become one of the hallmarks of the news now. Whenever there is a dramatic event, social media instantly comes alive with comment and conjecture as facts vie for attention with fiction. Alongside…
On an overcast afternoon in London in May 2013, an off-duty soldier named Lee Rigby was murdered near his barracks in Woolwich, southeast London. Rigby’s killers were two young British men of Nigerian…
Whatever you do, don’t turn to Twitter for news about Ebola. The volume and tone of tweets and retweets about the disease will make you wish you were watching the zombie apocalypse of The Walking Dead…
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi proclaimed Islamic State (IS) as a Muslim caliphate on June 29, 2014, with himself as caliph, a term reserved for a successor to the prophet Muhammad (PBUH). His would be the newest…
The only things that seem to be really growing in the UK and US economies these days are hunger and food insecurity. The growth of food banks and other forms of hunger-relief charities is a strong reminder…
Despite the enormous success of the environmental movement in the 1960s and 70s, we have fundamentally failed to use each of those battles to broaden the public understanding of why we were battling. It…
The deliberate act of falsely representing, labelling or advertising food, known as “food fraud”, is not a recent phenomenon. The deceitful adulteration of food has a long history based on the promise…
Mammals display an incredible diversity in size. The largest mammal, the blue whale, can grow up to 30m long and weigh up to 200 tonnes. Now compare that to the Bumblebee bat, which is 3cm long and weighs…
Global bans on rhinoceros products have failed, and legalisation is required to save rhinos from extinction, argue scientists. In a paper published today in journal Science, University of Queensland researcher…
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Associate Professor, Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia
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Assistant Professor of Writing Studies, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor, Department of History, University of British Columbia
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Associate Vice-President, Equity & Inclusion and Honorary Associate Professor Educational Studies, University of British Columbia
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Professor of Law, University of British Columbia
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Associate professor, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, and Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies, University of British Columbia
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Adjunct Professor in Biology, University of British Columbia
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Postdoctoral Researcher, University of British Columbia
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Lecturer, School of Global and International Affairs, University of British Columbia
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Professor of Environmental Humanities, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor, Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia
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Director & Professor, Fisheries Economics Research Unit, University of British Columbia
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
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Professor in the Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia
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Assistant Professor, Computer science, University of British Columbia
