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2023 Climate and Wellbeing Education Grants Unveiled!

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Addressing the Impacts of Canadian Mining on Communities in Africa

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Should the Fraser River Estuary have legal rights?

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Telling Stories: The Humanities in an Age of Planetary Agenda-Setting

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Before UBC staff and faculty left for the winter break, they set up the campus to save big on energy and greenhouse gas emissions. This past December, departments across campus joined together to reduce UBC’s environmental footprint over the winter holiday. By making a series of energy saving...
Donald Trump’s unlikely road to the White House began with a promise to build a wall on the Mexican border. The wall became such a defining feature of the 2016 campaign that it overshadowed another cross-border project many had written off as dead. With Trump set to take office January 20, the...

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