SPEAKER: Professor, Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Ottawa TITLE: Climate change and health: a complicated relationship? ABSTRACT: It is widely understood that greenhouse gases associated with human activities are causing climate change, and that climate change poses significant risks to human health. However, these risks are not evenly distributed. Climate change is […]
Hurricane anatomy
Each year, their occurrence is simultaneously inevitable and unpredictable. And when a particularly destructive one hits, we are shocked into the realization that we humans, despite all our collective strength, wisdom, and world-changing technologies, are sometimes uncomfortably tiny and powerless. So, what do we know about these remarkable weather events? Surely there is plenty of […]