CONAHEC News and Information

Finances a barrier to college studentsÔÇÖ global aspirations
Jeudi, nov. 01, 2018

Earlier this year, Ankita Rastogi, a computer systems technology student at Saskatchewan Polytechnic in Saskatoon, travelled outside her comfort zone to Mexico City as part of an international internship sponsored by the Bank of Nova Scotia and Colleges and Institutes Canada (CICan).

Ms. Rastogi was one of two college students in Canada selected to spend four months learning Spanish, living with a host family in Mexico City and working at Scotiabank’s Digital Factories as a front-end developer – but at first she didn’t even want to apply.

New Report Finds that Humanity Has Wiped Out 60 Percent of All Animal Life Since 1970
Jeudi, nov. 01, 2018

Wildlife experts are deeply concerned about the future of animal life and the world as a whole.

According to The Guardian, the “Our Living Planet Report 2018” from the World Wildlife Federation claims that humanity is responsible for a 60 percent decline in all animal populations — including birds, fish, mammals and reptiles — since 1970.

Startling new research finds large buildup of heat in the oceans, suggesting a faster rate of global warming
Mercredi, oct. 31, 2018

The world’s oceans have been soaking up far more excess heat in recent decades than scientists realized, suggesting that Earth could be set to warm even faster than predicted in the years ahead, according to new research published Wednesday.

Don't despair: the climate fight is only over if you think it is
Mercredi, oct. 31, 2018

After the panicky IPCC report on climate change, it’s easy for pessimism to set in – but that would be conceding defeat.

Plants fight climate change at night better than previously thought
Mardi, oct. 30, 2018

Climate change predictions are overly gloomy because plants are better at removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at night than previously thought, according to a new study.

Scientists believe current models of global warming fail to take into account the extent to which plants absorb carbon dioxide in the dark.

They have also said that soil loses less nitrous oxide - also bad for the climate - at night than previously thought.

Global wildlife populations fall 60 per cent as WWF declares state of emergency for natural world
Mardi, oct. 30, 2018

Conservationists have issued a demand for urgent international action after a major report uncovered an unprecedented crisis in nature that threatens to devastate the world economy and imperil humanity itself.

Only a global pact on the scale of the Paris Agreement on climate change will save the natural world from irreversible collapse, the World Wide Fund for Nature said after publishing a report showing a cataclysmic decline in global wildlife populations.

Burmese python invasion in Florida a hidden legacy of Hurricane Andrew
Lundi, oct. 29, 2018

It's been 26 years since Hurricane Andrew became the costliest storm in Florida's history, but today residents of the Sunshine State are still paying the price in a way few would have imagined. Captive Burmese pythons let loose by Andrew's destruction have flourished in the southern Florida ecosystem, decimating local species in the process. And now there are signs this stubbornly invasive species may be poised to make its way beyond the state's borders.

Here's what climate change could look like in Canada
Lundi, oct. 29, 2018

Climate change is here, experts say, and Canada can expect to suffer the consequences.

The effects of a warming planet are going to be felt from coast to coast to coast. And, if we stick to a "business-as-usual" scenario — no change to our emissions — it's going to happen a lot sooner than scientists initially thought, according to a recently released Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.

Changing climate forces desperate Guatemalans to migrate
Mercredi, oct. 24, 2018

JOCOTÁN, CHIQUIMULA, GUATEMALAEduardo Méndez López lifts his gaze to the sky, hoping to see clouds laden with rain.

After months of subsisting almost exclusively on plain corn tortillas and salt, his eyes and cheeks appear sunken in, his skin stretched thin over bone. The majority of his neighbors look the same.

Quake split a tectonic plate in two, and geologists are shaken
Mercredi, oct. 24, 2018

On September 7, 2017, a magnitude 8.2 earthquake struck southern Mexico, killing dozens and injuring hundreds. While earthquakes are common enough in the region, this powerful event wasn’t any run-of-the-mill tremor.

That’s because part of the roughly 37-mile-thick tectonic plate responsible for the quake completely split apart, as revealed by a new study in Nature Geoscience. This event took place in a matter of tens of seconds, and it coincided with a gargantuan release of energy.

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