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

🌎💚 Can we make meaningful climate action feel happy instead of miserable? @jiayingzhao.bsky.social answers this and more in the American Psychological Association. 🔗 www.apa.org/monitor/2025...

♻️ @jiayingzhao.bsky.social and Jade Radke share their insights on increasing recycling rates through a green lottery, contributing to a circular economy and more refund options! 🔗https://theconversation.com/how-a-lottery-style-refund-system-could-boost-recycling-259896 @ubcpsych.bsky.social

🗳️ Voter-approved local initiatives can help improve bird abundance! 💲🐦That's what IRES prof Joséphine Gantois and colleagues found when they examined the impact of the allocation of funding for open space conservation. Read more: doi.org/10.1257/pand...

Happy #WorldOceansDay! well, actually, the ocean is not so happy... look through our #OceanIdioms to learn more. oceans.ubc.ca/ocean-idioms/ @seaaroundus.org @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social #GOLT #IUUfishing #illegalfishing #coastalecosystems #WorldOceanDay

Commenting on "Sweet deal, bitter landscape" by Youjin B. Chung, IRES researchers write how the case study of EcoEnergy provides an in-depth look at consequences when governments seek to make their land and resources suitable for ‘investment’. Read more: doi.org/10.1080/0964...

Almost 99% of children have been exposed to one climate or environmental hazard in their lifetime. @jiayingzhao.bsky.social is featured in APA for her advice on how to help youth move from climate anxiety to climate action. 🔗https://www.apa.org/monitor/2025/06/youth-climate-anxiety-action

When corporations are able to sue governments for strengthening environmental and human rights laws, sustainability and human rights are at risk. @Dr. David Boyd is featured for his report on what countries can do to protect themselves. tinyurl.com/ysb2muv2

🎉 IRES alums Susanna Klassen & Dana James are two researchers named global champions of the Frontiers Planet Prize!! 🌻 For James and Klassen, what matters most is what comes next. Will the world be willing to make these findings real for farmers? ires.ubc.ca/ires-alumni-...

In addressing climate catastrophes and biodiversity loss, scientists must also overcome narrow ideas about what types of knowledge count in science. These scholars offer some reflexive strategies to help make our sciences more inclusive, just, and effective. @ubcgeography.bsky.social

IRES professor Kai Chan is speaking about ecosystem services at the 2025 IASNR Conference, on Wed June 11, at 10:30am Pacific!

“There is no such thing as decarbonized oil and gas. Oil contains carbon." Dr. Simon Donner (@ires.ubc.ca‬ and @ubcgeography.bsky.social‬ ) commented on the government's use of the term “decarbonized” oil when discussing new pipelines. Via @thestar.com‬ buff.ly/qcmY6wI

Mauricio Carvallo Aceves, doctorant à l’IRES, revient sur les défis de gérer l'évolution des risques climatiques et les stratégies visées par les communautés canadiennes pour y faire face: ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premie... (16h48 segment)

🎊 Join us in congratulating @manvi.bsky.social who has been awarded the Andrew Thompson Award: Youth Changemakers for Environmental Justice, hosted by @wcelaw.bsky.social! www.wcel.org/media-releas...

💻🚜 As AI and big data continue to shape agriculture, IRES researchers ask: What can technology do? Who does tech serve, and who does it exclude? Who gets to decide? ires.ubc.ca/rethinking-a... 📑 And, they've created a toolkit for ethical data governance: www.bcacarn.ca/ethical-data...

@helinajolly.bsky.social and other scholars share how revisiting Indigenous perspectives within fire management policies can minimize effects on future landscape, offer coexistence with fire, and provide an opportunity to shift away from ineffective colonial policies. @uvmvermont.bsky.social

The Solutions Scholars Program is accepting applications! Program Details: climatesolutions.ubc.ca/solutions-sc... 🧭 Application Deadline – June 10, 11:59pm, 2025 📅 Term: September 2025 – June 2026 💰 Value: $10,000 GRA

IRES's Dr. Kai Chan will be one of the expert panelists speaking alongside Keynote Speaker Lisa Brideau, author of Adrift (winner of the 2024 Evergreen Award) and senior sustainability specialist with the City of Vancouver! botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/news-events/...

🐙🪼 Climate change threatens marine ecosystems— learn how these scholars created a pathways of effects model that conceptualizes how three climate change stressors impact species on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. 🔗 facetsjournal.com/doi/full/10....

Two of our faculty are looking for someone with experience in higher ed research management and background working with Indigenous communities to apply for a Research Coordinator position. Learn more by searching JR20759 at ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcstaffjobs!