Toxic: Q&A with UTP Authors Amelia Fiske and Jonas Fischer
Drawing on extensive research and fieldwork, Toxic takes the reader on a visual toxic tour through the Amazon. Read the full Q&A… READ MORE
May 21, 2024
Environment
Frontier Science: Reflections on Northern Canada, Military Research, and the Cold War
Frontier Science explores the shadowy world of military research and the consequences of employing science to conquer nature in northern… READ MORE
May 10, 2024
Q&A with UTP Authors Andrea Olive, Karen F. Beazley, and Chance Finegan
Transformative Politics of Nature: Overcoming Barriers to Conservation in Canada highlights the most significant barriers to conservation in Canada and… READ MORE
November 9, 2023
Books for Understanding: Oil and Gas
As a consequence of the global demand for energy, the oil and gas industry has been steadily contributing to the… READ MORE
April 6, 2022
Earth Day: An Excerpt from “Understanding Climate Change”
To celebrate Earth Day, we’re sharing an excerpt from
June 17, 2021
Global Recycling Day: An Excerpt from “Solved” by David Miller
For Global Recycling Day, we share an excerpt from David Miller’s book, Solved: How the World’s Great Cities Are Fixing the Climate Crisis, and look at San Francisco’s efforts to have net-zero emissions by 2050.
March 18, 2021
How Activists Put a Human Face on Climate Change
Climate change was once understood as solely an environmental issue. Now a growing class of activists claim climate change to be a gender, equity, labour, Indigenous rights, faith, and health issue. Jen Iris Allan, author of The New Climate Activism explores these issues in more detail.
February 10, 2021
Science Writing in a Time of Crisis
Mireille F. Ghoussoub holds a PhD in materials chemistry from the University of Toronto and is the co-author of The Story of CO2. In this post, Mireille highlights why the need for honest and effective science communication has never been greater in the fight against climate change.
November 12, 2020
Beyond Binaries: Chemical Technologies for Coping with Climate Change
Geoffrey A. Ozin and Mireille F. Ghoussoub discuss their new book and explain why we should be considering CO2 as a resource in the fight against catastrophic climate change.
October 22, 2020
What’s Missing in the New Federal Climate-Change Plan?
Douglas Macdonald examines what impact the Thorne speech might have on Canada’s climate and energy policies going forward.
October 15, 2020