July 2022

Researchers at Dalhousie University who are examining the extent of the waste problem scanned social media platforms to see if they could use them as a tool to collect biologically relevant citizen science data and track rapidly emerging environmental challenges.

A computer scientist with academic roots in psychology has created a game for change that hopes to make a difference in the lives of people suffering with mental health by battling stigma.

A podcast -- Fishing Forward -- focuses on health and safety in the commercial fishing industry, drawing much of its material from experts and fishermen working in the sector.

A brother-and-sister team is hoping to offer victims of intimate partner violence a safe way to seek help through an app that looks like a site for recipes, but actually allows users to access resources or alert contacts to an emergency.

A team of scientists led by Dalhousie University along with researchers in Australia and the United Kingdom has found that opioid agonist treatment, or OAT, can lower the risk of death and recurrent infections linked to injection drug use following hospitalisation.

New research by a team at Dalhousie University suggests that children who are the same sex as a parent with an anxiety disorder are at greater risk of developing an anxiety disorder too.

A multidisciplinary group produced a list of 15 phenomena that may not be receiving widespread attention now, but which are likely to have a significant impact on marine and coastal biodiversity over the next five to 10 years.

Researchers from Dalhousie University, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany analyze the feasibility of large-scale subsurface geothermal heat recycling.

A new report by science and policy experts from the U.S. and Canada has found that abandoned and active mining operations are putting tremendous pressure on watersheds from Montana to British Columbia and Alaska, and often overlap with populations of salmon, trout and other species.