An end of year survey by Dalhousie University of Halifax shows some 87 per cent of Canadians feel food costs are rising faster than incomes. The Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University together with the polling firm Angus Reid Institute,… »
Highlights / Dalhousie
Environment & Animal Life, Health, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
CRISPR: Ethics and the gene editing of humans
By making genetic research so much easier, the recent technology known as CRISPR has allowed scientists an enormous advantage in research into so many areas. Unfortunately there’s a downside which raises serious ethical questions. Françoise Baylis (CM, ONS, PhD, FRSC,… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International
Study suggests Canadian food prices to surpass inflation in 2020
The study by Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, and the University of Guelph in Ontario is called “Canada’s Food Price Report 2020” Its’ the tenth annual report, and it notes that climate change, with its accompanying bad weather, is an… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Society
Study: a nutrition resource being lost or ignored in developing countries
A new study shows the nutritional value of differing fish species available in differing ecosystems, but also how policies and misunderstanding of nutrition means that resource is being squandered in countries where it is most needed. The study shows the… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Act now, not ‘soon’: IPCC report on oceans, cryosphere and climate change
This latest report sends yet another strong warning signal to mankind about the state of the environment. This report specifically deals with oceans and the worlds glaciers and ice caps, or cryosphere and the changing climate. It basically says everyone… »
Economy, Health, International, Politics, Society
Junk food and kids: Canadian paediatricians want marketing bill passed
The label “junk food” may be a tad misleading. While it might bring the image of fast food to mind, the concern of paediatricians encompasses a wider range of highly processed foods often found in grocery stores as well. These… »
Health, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
We can edit the human genome, but should we?
CRISPR is a recent technological breakthrough in simplifying gene editing, It’s potential is enormous and at the same time it raises great concerns. Those concerns exploded when a Chinese scientist edited the genetic sequence of an embryo (germline) to create twin… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Politics, Society
The biggest threat to the world’s biggest creatures is hunting
We are eating them to extinction A new report says while pollution and habitat loss are still serious threats to the world’s creatures, hunting is the biggest threat to their survival. Boris Worm (PhD) is a professor of marine biology… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Marine protected areas: maybe not so protected
A study by researchers at Dalhousie University in Halifax Nova Scotia has found a surprising fact. Commercial fishing inside Europe’s marine protected areas (MPA’s) is actually heavier than outside those areas. Manuel Dureuil is lead author of the study. He… »
Environment & Animal Life, Internet, Science & Technology
A new previously unknown branch on the tree of life discovered
Canadian researchers have discovered an entirely new organism that is like no other. The microbe is a single, but complex cell organism, and is like no other previously known organism. Therefore it has its own unique branch on the tree… »
