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Over the past few weeks and months, many places that are unaccustomed to seeing the direct effects of forest fires became blanketed in wildfire smoke. In Canada’s worst wildfire season on record, major cities and rural landscapes alike were obscured by haze. Many areas issued air quality warnings because that smoke, even though it doesn’t come from an industrial smokestack, is still a form of air pollution.
Today in The Conversation Canada, Ryan Allen and Stephanie Cleland of Simon Fraser University write about the potential health risks of exposure to wildfire smoke.
“Evidence linking wildfire smoke with adverse health effects has been accumulating for years and the notion that wildfire smoke is "natural,” and therefore less harmful than other types of air pollution, is not supported by the evidence.“
Also today:
All the best.
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Thick wildfire smoke blankets the landscape near Water Valley, Alta., in May 2023. Evidence linking wildfire smoke with adverse health effects has been accumulating for years.
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Ryan W. Allen, Simon Fraser University; Stephanie Cleland, Simon Fraser University
The notion that wildfire smoke is ‘natural,’ and therefore less harmful than other types of air pollution, is not supported by the evidence. Wildfire smoke has been linked to adverse health effects.
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Student-Managed Investment Funds provide students with experience managing real investment portfolios. But new research shows only.
a small minority of funds include environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in their mandates.
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Lorin Busaan, University of Victoria; Basma Majerbi, University of Victoria
As we confront pressing social and environmental challenges, business schools must play a big role in building momentum for sustainable investing and ignore partisan, anti-ESG sniping.
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A failed experiment led to researchers showing that assumptions about chromosomal behaviour were wrong.
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Thomas Merritt, Laurentian University; Teresa Rzezniczak, Laurentian University
A failed experiment led the researchers to question their assumptions and realize that, contrary to popular belief, chromosomes interact with and affect genetic expression.
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Canada’s green transition is being hampered by a lack of investment in cycling and EV infrastructure.
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Deborah de Lange, Toronto Metropolitan University
Canada should invest in sustainable transportation infrastructure to accelerate the green transition.
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Arts
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Margarita Guillory, Boston University; Jeta Luboteni, Boston University
In many parts of the world, hip-hop has become a way for Muslim artists to assert their belonging and identity.
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Health
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Maida Lynn Chen, University of Washington
Exposure to screens before bedtime can contribute to chronic sleep deprivation, which raises the risk for anxiety, depression and even suicidal thoughts.
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Politics
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Francis Okpaleke, University of Waikato; Olumba E. Ezenwa, Royal Holloway University of London
A geopolitical struggle for valuable resources such as uranium is behind the wrangling over Niger.
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