Category: Heads Up

Failing climate policies | 2023 wildfire causes | 1,100 extra deaths | Sea-lice save | Auk surge | BPA–autism link | August 20, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Wildfire arsenic release | Cool greenbelts | Arctic locavore CO2 | Salish Sea sharks | Marine biopsy | Massy T.rex | August 6, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up   – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Longer climate days | Hot strawberry costs | Smogged pollinators | Plastic-filled fish | Booze doozy | Lonely brains | July 23, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Fire-generating fires | Poached cod | NW Passage ice | Long-distance butterfly | New polar bear dens | Lake Erie blooms | July 9, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

2x extreme fires | Nanoplastic disease | Heat health | Peak coal dust | Drugged H2O | Coffee health | Digital tantrums | June 25, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Shrinking whales | Hybrid bears | Penned caribou moms | Topsoil losses | Same-sex animals | Racism brain rewire | June 18, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Arctic Pacific salmon | Smoke lakes | Ice bears | NOx impacts | City benzene | Opioid sales tactics | Space health | June 11, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Sumas Lake flood | Orca vs seals | Wildfire PM2.5 deaths | Tiny great ape | Fish school of hard knocks | Off-road drugs | June 4, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Doomsday seawater | Orange Arctic rivers | Urchinned grey whale | 3,500-year camas | Hot strokes | Home $ vs health | May 28, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Family docs | Preteen screens | Pot–psych connection | Great Lakes PFAS | Wild boars | Jellies rule | Puppy whines | May 21, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Dead heat | Mercury birds | Climate-crushed pollinators | Orca breath | Brain probe | Women surgeons | Outrunning death | May 14, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Cancer rates, deaths | Talking sperm whales | Hot bumble bees | Body image boost | Cranberry goodness | Heart fitness | May 7, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Deer-squeezed caribou | T. rex dumbs down | Freshwater oil spill | Young breast cancer | Motivated stoners | April 30, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Big 5 plastic polluters | Spike-toothed salmon | Coho bottleneck | Tundra CO2 | CO2 fertilizer | Avalanche goats | April 23, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Greenwash | Climate pine beetles | Loons’ murky future | Poisoned peregrines | Online bullies | Fractures vs cancer | April 16, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Seafloor plastic | Wild pollinator $ | Lynx range change | Blue vole | GHG weather | Fan effect | Green @ heart | April 9, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>