Research

The effects of climate change will disproportionately affect the world's poorest, risking the lives and health of millions of people, write two Dalhousie researchers along with a colleague from Lewis & Clark Law School.

The Lord Dalhousie Panel's final report offers a thorough accounting of the various intersections between George Ramsay, the Ninth Earl of Dalhousie who commissioned the founding of Dalhousie University in 1818 while serving as Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, and the institution and legacy of slavery.

When the School of Nursing's Ingrid Waldron learned via Twitter that her work on environmental racism had caught the eye of actor and filmmaker Elliot Page, she had no idea it would lead to a full-length documentary. Now, "There's Something in the Water" is set to premiere at the TIFF and FIN film festivals this month.

Researchers studying hydraulic fracturing have answered a longstanding question over how the practice can sometimes cause moderate earthquakes and may be able to use their model to forecast when quakes linked to fracking might occur.

With the news that Dr. Christine Chambers has been appointed as scientific director for the CIHR Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health, Dalhousie becomes one of only two universities in Canada to host two CIHR institutes.