/newsroom/taxonomy/term/1917/all en /newsroom/jill-baumgartner Thu, 08 Jun 2023 16:41:37 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 302892 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/experts-quebec-summer-forecast-calls-heat-humidity-and-severe-thunderstorms-339717 <p>A hot, "unstable and sticky" summer awaits Quebecers, according to The Weather Network, which predicts periods of abundant heat, often followed by severe thunderstorms. This will be the "fifth consecutive summer where temperatures will be above seasonal normals, which has never happened since we started compiling data" in 1942, according to André Monette, chief meteorologist at The Weather Network. (<a href="https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/montreal-summer-forecast-calls-for-heat-humidity-and-severe-thunderstorms-1.5925670" target="_blank">CTV News</a>)</p> Tue, 31 May 2022 18:50:52 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 288167 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/global-project-reduce-health-inequalities-cities-around-world-284536 <div><span>A major new research partnership has been launched to explore ways of reducing health inequalities in cities around the world.</span></div> <div> </div> Tue, 06 Feb 2018 20:02:56 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 32938 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/experts-smog-montreal-283642 <p>“Officials in the city of Montreal have issued the latest of several smog alerts today and they hope to improve air quality by restricting the use of wood-burning appliances made popular after the devastating ice storm of 1998.” (<a href="http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2018/01/04/quebec-1998-electrical-failure-wood-burning/">RCI Net</a>)</p> Thu, 04 Jan 2018 20:18:25 +0000 vincent.allaire@mcgill.ca 32819 at /newsroom