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The UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health is a global leader in research on world water issues, including water-borne diseases and ways to address the expected increase in global water demand as conventional water sources diminish.
Canadian and the US have invested more than $22.8 billion in cleaning up the Great Lakes in the last 35 years -- and that's money well-spent, a new article finds, with every dollar toward cleanup catalyzing more than $3 worth of community revitalization.
Work by McMaster researchers has highlighted dramatic differences in the ways forests and peatlands function in a warming climate, and how those differences could in turn accelerate the pace of warming.