HSS Highlights
Politicizing Science: how quota quarrels lose sight of sustainable fishing.
Dr. Dean Bavington, Department of Geography, MUN, is quoted about the federal government's increase in cod quotas.
DFO檚 decision to up this year檚 Northern cod quota is 渕anagerial choreography disguised as ecological concern.
Scientists issue urgent call ahead of final plastics treaty talks
Dr. Max Liboiron, Department of Geography, MUN, was one of five academics to present at the briefing event for the upcoming Plastics Treaty Talks.
The event (August 514) is being touted as 渢he most significant global environmental agreement since the Paris Climate Accord.
Canada downplayed arsenic exposure as an Indigenous community was poisoned
Dr. Arn Keeling, Department of Geography and Dr. John Sandlos, Department of History, 91亚色, discuss their forthcoming book, which exposes how colonialism, corporate greed and lax regulation led to widespread air and water pollution, particularly affecting Tats谦虂t櫮眓茅 (Yellowknives Dene) communities.
"Archival records show that federal public health officials recommended the roaster be shut down until arsenic emissions could be controlled. But the company and federal mining regulators dragged their feet, fearing the economic impact."