/newsroom/taxonomy/term/18600/all en /newsroom/channels/news/prize-winning-scholars-advocate-immigrant-women-killer-whales-and-balanced-society-356262 <p>ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ is pleased to announce the winners and runners-up of the 2024 <a href="/newsroom/faculty-and-staff/principals-prize">President’s Prize for Public Engagement through Media</a>. The Prize was created to recognize outstanding achievement among those who share their knowledge on a vast range of subjects with the media and the public. This year, there were applicants from 11 of the 12 faculties, a sign that sharing knowledge and a love of learning continue to be embedded in ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ’s DNA.</p> Thu, 21 Mar 2024 19:01:25 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 310376 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/killer-whales-diet-more-important-location-pollutant-exposure-study-says-352197 <p>Both elegant and fierce, killer whales are some of the oceans’ top predators, but even they can be exposed to environmental pollution. Now, in the largest study to date on North Atlantic killer whales, researchers in the American Chemical Society’ <i>Environmental Science & Technology</i> report the levels of legacy and emerging pollutants in 162 individuals’ blubber. The animals’ diet, rather than location, greatly impacted contaminant levels and potential health risks — information that’s helpful to conservation efforts.</p> Tue, 24 Oct 2023 14:38:07 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 307413 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/tastes-differ-even-among-north-atlantic-killer-whales-347500 <p>Killer whales (also known as orcas) are intelligent predators. While it’s known that killer whales in the Pacific Northwest exploit widely different food types, even within the same region, we know much less about the feeding habits of those found throughout the North Atlantic. Thanks to a new technique developed by a research team led by ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ, it is now possible to quantify, for the first time, the proportion of different prey that killer whales in the North Atlantic are eating by studying the fatty acid patterns in their blubber.</p> Thu, 30 Mar 2023 20:30:57 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 297996 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/expert-right-whale-population-continued-decline-2021-343017 <p>The population of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales continued to decline in 2021, according to the latest estimate that puts the surviving population at 340. (<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/north-atlantic-right-whale-population-decline-continues-1.6628003" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">CBC News</a>) </p> <p>Here is an expert from ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ who can provide comment on this topic:  </p> Tue, 25 Oct 2022 15:59:02 +0000 claire.loewen@mcgill.ca 288454 at /newsroom