🏔️ Join us for our upcoming seminar! Talk details will be announced closer to the date. 🔗https://ires.ubc.ca/november-13-2025-ires-faculty-seminar-with-dr-phurwa-dolpopa/

Join us TOMORROW for talks by two IRES grad students, Clare Price and Sveinar Soldal! More info at: ires.ubc.ca/news-and-eve...

Want to hear realistic, uplifting takes on how we can collectively overcome the climate and nature crisis? Check out Season 2 of Small Planet Heroes, a podcast hosted by IRES's Dr. Kai Chan! www.cosphere.net/podcast

Season 2 of Small Planet Heroes, a podcast hosted by IRES's Dr. Kai Chan, has launched! Weekly episodes have been released...featuring Alexandra Morton, Suzanne Simard, Teika Newton and Eli Enns: www.cosphere.net/podcast

We're looking for a postdoc! The candidate will work with Dr. Amanda Giang, Dr. Susan Chiblow and Dr. Élyse Caron-Beaudoin, on a subproject linking Indigenous experiences on chemicals policy development across scales. ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcfac...

💻🪫A new publication shares that a repair-centered sustainability course shifts engineering students’ attitudes, builds practical skills, and strengthens community engagement, underscoring the need to embed environmental literacy across engineering curricula. doi.org/10.1145/3736...

🌱 Next week, Dr. Kees Lokman will speak on coastal adaptation led by Indigenous values, cultural revival, and ecological care. 🔗 ires.ubc.ca/october-30-2...

🧮💡 Head over to CEME on Nov  3 for a hands-on talk + workshop on interactive tools for science education! Examples will focus on atmospheric science but the concepts involved are relevant to most scientific fields. Attendees are encouraged to bring a laptop. ires.ubc.ca/nov-3-2025-m...

🥕 What are the drivers of diversification and job quality on organic farms? Addressing a massive gap in sustainable food systems research, @susannaelsie.bsky.social et al. developed a survey to assess multiple dimensions of job quality for hired farmworkers alongside diversification. 🔗 rdcu.be/eJeZC

⚡🌍Join us next week! This talk offers an insider’s take on how Schneider Electric embeds decarbonization, circular design, and innovation into every layer of its global strategy. 🔗https://ires.ubc.ca/october-23-2025-ires-professional-development-seminar-with-shaochen-yuan/

A new publication on water systems from IRES alumni & Dr. @leilaharris.bsky.social encourages more specificity in the use of the terms 'centralization' and 'decentralization'. Their suggestion, shown below, clarifies different water system configurations and their impacts. doi.org/10.1002/wat2...

Please note the cancellation of our seminar this Thursday. Our apologies! ires.ubc.ca/october-16-2...

In fact, the very term “decarbonized oil and gas” has been denounced as a falsehood by the co-chair of the federal @NZAB_Canada climate scientist @simondonner.bsky.social @ires.ubc.ca theconversation.com/mark-carneys... via @theconversation.com #climatechange #climateaction

💐 3 IRES students are named as 2025 UBC Public Scholars...congrats Yunfei Li, Jessica Mukiri, and Molly Zhang! 🗨️ "Building trust with communities takes time, yet these efforts are often undervalued in the traditional metrics of academia. PSI creates space for this kind of work." Jessica Mukiri

A new paper co-authored by @ires.ubc.ca adjunct prof Dr. Robin Gregory argues that B.C. should be spending more than the cost of battling wildfires in 2025, expected to be close to $500m, to break the current cycle of destructive wildfires. via @theglobeandmail.com

How can cities adapt to rising seas and uncertain futures? IRES’s Mauricio Carvallo uses Surrey’s climate planning as a case study to show how flexible, cost-aware strategies can help protect farms, homes, and infrastructure from coastal flooding. 🔗https://buff.ly/o1em66K

⚖️ How is the EU’s anti-deforestation law landing in Southeast Asia? This talk explores the backlash against the EUDR in rubber-producing countries and what it reveals about global power imbalances in sustainability policy. @sppga.ubc.ca ires.ubc.ca/october-2-20...

🎙️ This small snippet offers a glimpse into Nicole's comprehensive Seminar in our Series, addressing the intangible, or harder-to-measure impacts, that really matter to people after resource extraction. youtu.be/LEiI7ow35us Join our next seminar! ires.ubc.ca/news-and-events/

Canada predicted to miss 2030 climate targets. @simondonner.bsky.social says the 2024 levels of carbon dioxide are 8.5% below 2005 levels, way below the goal of 40-45%. globalnews.ca/video/114383... via @globalbc.bsky.social @ubcgeography.bsky.social @ires.ubc.ca

How can communities help map air pollution? 🏘️🌫️ This study found that community knowledge highlighted air pollution sources that were less well-represented in official data sets. Helping capture what official data often misses. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Help improve the reach of your research and your skills📝📢! @thatniv.bsky.social, IRES's Communications Manager, will offer tips for writing lay abstracts, creating a graphical abstract, and refining your online presence. ires.ubc.ca/september-25...

Exploring aqua nullius and its role in colonization, this talk addresses the systemic exclusion of Indigenous water rights and science. It highlights the impact on Indigenous women's water rights and aims to reform settler-state legal systems to ensure their sovereignty and water rights.

Dr. @simondonner.bsky.social comments on Canadian government's climate policy. @ubcgeography.bsky.social @ires.ubc.ca www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

UBC Micro-certificate in Climate Action Planning! For policy makers, planners, and other professionals: ⏰ Part-time 💻 100% online 💵 Eligible for the StrongerBC future skills grant extendedlearning.ubc.ca/programs-cre...

Exploring how climate change impacts the lending capacity of microfinance institutions (MFIs) to smallholder farmers (SHFs), this talk will analyze global trends in physical climate risk—particularly tropical storms and floods—and their effects on 4,500 MFIs under various climate scenarios.

Join #UBCForestry and @landfood.ubc.ca on September 30 at 1956 Main Mall as we unite for an Intergenerational March to Commemorate Orange Shirt Day. Learn more: bit.ly/osd-2025 #UBC #OrangeShirtDay

Join @drdavidboyd.bsky.social's talk next week on this summer's powerful legal updates on the right to a healthy environment! 📍September 11, 2025 | CIRS BC Hydro Theatre 2:00 – 2:30 pm Networking (in-person) 2:30 – 3:30 pm Presentation (in-person and online) climatesolutions.ubc.ca/news-and-eve...

💐 Congrats to Manvi Bhalla and Amanda Giang, who are two recipients of the 2025 Peter Wall Legacy Awards! Bhalla is being honored for her IRES PhD research into environmental racism, while Giang's award is in association with her @ubcmech.bsky.social research. walllegacyawards.ubc.ca/awardees-2025/

Bottom trawling is a highly controversial fishing method, but a lesser-known problem with #bottomtrawling: its potential to unleash climate-warming gases by disturbing carbon stored in seafloor sediments. www.scientificamerican.com/article/bott... via @sciam.bsky.social

Dr. Jiaying Zhao (@ubcpsych.bsky.social @ires.ubc.ca ) commented on ways Metro Vancouver could help the public understand why green waste shouldn't go in landfill via @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social buff.ly/BCiY0l0

The Faculty of Science at UBC is seeking a candidate who self-identifies as Black for a tenure-stream Assistant Professor of Teaching, with expertise in data science, statistics, computational science, computer science, or environmental science. Please share widely! science.ubc.ca/blackscholars

📅 Mark your calendar: Sept 11 @ 12:30 PM! Join us for the first IRES seminar of the term, featuring IRES student Victor Cardenas. 🌍 Topic: Climate change, microfinance institutions & smallholder farmers 🔗 Full Term 1 speaker lineup: ires.ubc.ca/news-and-eve...

How do we align human actions with conservation? In this new paper, IRES scholars review the use of human action theories in conservation and make recommendations. Read more: doi.org/10.1111/cobi... @science.nature.org @gundinstitute.bsky.social

🌏 IRES researchers and colleagues present an updated dataset on the global distribution of cropland *and* pasture circa 2015, alongside a transparent and reproducible approach to update their data product. Read more: doi.org/10.5194/essd... @juliefortin.bsky.social

OP ED: Canadians struggling with climate-related disasters and skyrocketing insurance premiums may rightly ask: How will recent legal developments affect Canada? The short answer: profoundly. Dr. David Boyd (@ires.ubc.ca, @sppga.ubc.ca) discusses in @vancouversun.bsky.social

Our op-ed is out today in @thetyee.ca ! Protecting workers from the risks of extreme heat isn’t a threat to affordable food. It’s key to ensuring food security with hotter summers to come. BC should update its regulations in line with US states taking the lead, like WA, OR & CO.

July 2025 marked a significant milestone for climate justice as the human right to a healthy environment was recognized by top judicial authorities. @drdavidboyd.bsky.social, IRES professor & former UN Special Rapporteur, discussed its implications: 🔗 verfassungsblog.de/icj-climate-...

🎙️ This snippet offers a glimpse into Verena's comprehensive Seminar in our Series, which is full of strategies, tactics and tools related to the science of policy making and changing. And there's even more to explore— join our Seminar Series in September! ires.ubc.ca/news-and-events/

Anaïs Pronovost-Morgan, a graduate student from IRES, spearheaded an Eco-Improv workshop! Eco-Improv, she says, can help us deal with the diverse eco-emotions of the climate crisis, and build our confidence in the face of the unknown. Read more! www.cbc.ca/news/science...

⭐ Just published: a powerful new article on the value of community amidst climate chaos, by a group of young professionals working with IRES Research Associate Don Carruthers Den Hoed. 🌟 Open access: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lMeB,714M...

Announcing positions at UCLouvain in collab with IRES's Navin Ramankutty! 🔸 Examining land use and democratic backsliding via cross-country studies + cases in Europe, Canada (northern BC & AB, YT & NT), Mozambique 🔗 landsystems-lab.earth/news/

UBC Micro-certificate in Climate Action Planning! For policy makers, planners, and other professionals: ⏰ Part-time 💻 100% online 💵 Eligible for the StrongerBC future skills grant 👉 Info session Aug 19: extendedlearning.ubc.ca/courses/clim...

Congratulations to Tatiana Chamorro, who has been awarded the Sumaila-Volvo Graduate Prize by @ubcoceans.bsky.social! 🐄🌳🦎Tatiana's work examines sustainable cattle ranching practices in Colombia, taking into account the effects of trees, plants, and grazing livestock on lizard biodiversity.

Looking for a synthesis of climate change impacts on farmworkers? A new paper from IRES alum Susanna Klassen is out in Current Environmental Health Reports: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Paywalled? Full article here: static1.squarespace.com/static/5a2dd...

(Paywalled): A landmark International Court of Justice finding "should send shivers down the spine” of the fossil fuel industry and governments that support it. That's according to prof Dr. David Boyd (@ires.ubc.ca @sppga.ubc.ca ) via @nationalobserver.com buff.ly/HKNdTQ6

Thinking about the animals and the overall ecosystem is very important when considering natural carbon storage solutions, says @ires.ubc.ca professor Dr. Kai Chan.  via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/07...

Our students are making global impacts! Check out our research map below or in-person in AERL if you can, and watch for updates!

Many low- and middle-income countries, Indigenous Nations and communities and small states are missing from debates around space activities @ires.ubc.ca adjunct prof Dr. Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles and coauthors call for greater efforts to include all of humanity via @nature.com

The human right to a healthy environment is at the heart of the landmark #IACourtHR Advisory Opinion 32/25 says former Special Rapporteur and @ires.ubc.ca Prof David Boyd in his @verfassungsblog.de for the joint @sabincenter.bsky.social symposium on AO 32/25. verfassungsblog.de/right-to-a-h...

OP ED: "Of course we need to protect people, property and infrastructure from riverbank erosion. But current erosion management is hurting B.C. rivers." @ires.ubc.ca PhD candidate Charlotte Milne discusses riprap in B.C. via @ca.theconversation.com buff.ly/iiBotYy