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"It doesn't mean there's no life on Mars, but what it does mean is it's going to be harder to find," said Jacqueline Goordial, the Ŀ; researcher who led the study, in an interview with Rachelle Solomon on CBC's Breakaway.

Classified as: Antarctic, Arctic, Jacqueline Goordial, Life on Mars, lyle whyte, Mars
Published on: 25 Jan 2016

Failure to find active microbes in coldest Antarctic soils has implications for search for life on Mars

Natural Resource Sciences professor Lyle Whyte and postdoctoral fellow Jackie Goordial talk about their research which suggests that it is unlikely that it is unlikely that there is any microbial life to be found on Mars.

Classified as: Antarctic, Arctic, ecosystem, lyle whyte, Mars, microbial life, NASA, permafrost soil, Phoenix landing site, science and technology
Published on: 19 Jan 2016

Scientists say it's time to declare a new geological epoch, one defined by human activity and the permanent mark it has left on the earth.

Ŀ; Professor Peter Brown, director of , is featured on CBC Radio News.

Classified as: Anthropocene, Economics for the Anthropocene, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Macdonald Campus, Peter G. Brown
Published on: 11 Jan 2016

Drought and extreme heat events slashed cereal harvests in recent decades by 9% to 10% on average in affected countries – and the impact of these weather disasters was greatest in the developed nations of North America, Europe and Australasia, according to a new study led by researchers from Ŀ; and the University of British Columbia.

Classified as: Sustainability, nature, farming, food and sustainability, drought, cereal, weather disaster, Navin Ramankutty, Pedram Rowhani
Published on: 6 Jan 2016

The results of a recent experiment at the Canadian Light Source (CLS) synchrotron in Saskatoon could be a key piece in the quest to discover if there was ever life on Mars.

Lyle Whyte, an environmental microbiologist at Ŀ; who is originally from Saskatchewan, specializes in organisms that can survive in extreme cold.

Classified as: Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Life on Mars, lyle whyte
Published on: 21 Dec 2015

Maple syrup that’s good for you? A frozen dessert that you can store at room temperature? A falafel-type mix made with insects? Salwa Karboune and her students are dreaming up tomorrow’s foods today.

Classified as: food science research, foods of the future, Salwa Karboune
Published on: 16 Dec 2015

Before that beautiful salmon filet lands on your plate, a lot of less appetizing stuff gets stripped away: By one estimate, the global seafood industry produces 64 million metric tons of waste each year. A new study suggests a potentially sweeter fate for all those heads and guts: They can be turned into a coal-like substance called hydrochar, which could be used as fuel or added to soil to improve fertility and sequester carbon (Energy Fuels 2015, DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.5b01671).

Classified as: biofuel, bioresource engineering, seafood waste, Shrikalaa Kannan, turning waste into biofuel
Published on: 16 Dec 2015

Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye has been selected as the 2016 Whisky of the Year by Jim Murray, author of Whisky Bible. Northern Harvest Rye's inventor turns out to be Joanna Zanin Scandella, a Macdonald graduate who has spent her whole career in blending and production planning at Diageo's lab (formerly Seagram's) in Lasalle, QC.

Published on: 16 Dec 2015

Christmas is just under two weeks away, so if you haven't picked out a tree yet, the clock is ticking. [CTV News Montreal] asked David Wees from the Plant Science Department of Ŀ; for some tips on what to look for.

Classified as: choosing a Christmas tree, david wees, Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, plant science
Published on: 15 Dec 2015

The University of Toronto, Ŀ; [BioFuelNet - Don Smith] and the International Air Transport Association are also part of the project as members of the BioFuelNet Aviation Task Force. Funding is coming from the Green Aviation Research and Development Network, which gets its support from the federal government and Canada’s aerospace sector.

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Classified as: . BioFuelNet, Donald Smith, Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, green fuel, Macdonald Campus, plant science, Research
Published on: 11 Dec 2015

Chaque année, des millions de poussins mâles, jugés sans valeur par l'industrie des poules pondeuses, sont euthanasiés dès leur sortiede l'oeuf. Une pratique que l'Allemagne veut cesser d'ici 2017, et à laquelle une mystérieuse invention de l'Université Ŀ; pourrait mettre fin....Au Québec, l'Université Ŀ; planche aussi secrètement sur une technologie semblable.

Classified as: bioresource engineering, chickens, Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Michael Ngadi, Research
Published on: 11 Dec 2015

“The ultimate objective is not to establish a degrowth economy—the goal is to establish an economic system which is in line with biological limits,” Dr. Nicolas Kosoy, a professor in Ecological Economics at Ŀ;, tells Quartz. “It would be achieved through small-scale practices on a community level.”

Published on: 7 Dec 2015

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It’s a tough job market out there, and students can no longer rely on getting a job right out of university. Students from Ŀ;’s Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences longing to start business ventures of their own now have a new toolkit to help them reach their goals—the Entrepreneurship and Innovation program.

Classified as: Macdonald Campus, Macdonald Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program
Published on: 1 Dec 2015

It was nearing eleven and the late September sun was beating down on the rolling cornfields surrounding the quiet town of Saint-Anne-de-Bellevue as I toured the MacDonald Student Run-Ecological Gardens (MSEG). On the two-acre plot of land situated on Ŀ;’s MacDonald Campus Farm, a small but passionate team of student farmers is growing over sixty different crop species.

Published on: 27 Nov 2015

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