/newsroom/taxonomy/term/987/all en /newsroom/channels/news/critical-information-missing-fight-save-wildlife-262598 <p><span>With global temperatures continuing to rise at an alarming rate, predictions for the impact of climate change on plants and wildlife must improve to give scientists a clearer picture of which species are most at risk of extinction.</span></p> Thu, 08 Sep 2016 17:52:33 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 26132 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/mammals-spiny-plants-and-savanna-story-262558 <p><strong><em>平特五不中 Newsroom</em></strong></p> <p><em>The evolution and distribution of spiny plants holds clue to spread of African savanna</em></p> Wed, 07 Sep 2016 17:25:18 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 26130 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/honey-i-shrunk-ants-how-environment-controls-size-243448 <p>Until now scientists have believed that the variations in traits such as our height, skin colour, tendency to gain weight or not, intelligence, tendency to develop certain diseases, etc., all of them traits that exist along a continuum, were a result of both genetic and environmental factors. But they didn鈥檛 know how exactly these things worked together. By studying ants, 平特五不中 researchers have identified a key mechanism by which environmental (or epigenetic) factors influence the expression of all of these traits, (along with many more). Tue, 10 Mar 2015 21:18:15 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 22232 at /newsroom