October 2021

Researchers at Dalhousie and York universities investigated factors that predict two types of responses to the pandemic and recently published their findings in the journal, Personality and Individual Differences.

A new report by an international team of scientists suggests that marine ecosystems around the globe will suffer greater impacts than previously thought due to the effects of climate change, although strong mitigation measures could help limit these predicted declines.

The switch to online interaction for new moms raised an important question: can a virtual village be equally beneficial to new mothers and their children?

Media opportunity: A small pond in a distant part of the Canadian Arctic has yielded important insight into the lives of an early Inuit society, along with information on the lasting effects the inhabitants had on the environment more than a century after they were decimated by disease.

Michael Halpin, an assistant professor in Dal's Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, analyzed more than 9,000 comments on the largest incel discussion board to gauge the motivation behind the movement.

Cannabis labelling is often misleading and would benefit from a more scientific approach when it comes to marketing the product, according to new research by Dalhousie University, Wageningen University & Research and Bedrocan International, a medicinal cannabis company based in the Netherlands.

Four Dalhousie students who worked remotely together throughout the pandemic have won a national award for a device that can shelter people in wheelchairs from wet weather as they get out of their car.

In a new study, researchers at Dalhousie University developed a mathematical model to evaluate the impacts of sea-level rise and associated saltwater intrusion on coastal permafrost.