Category: Heads Up

Starving polar bears | Lemmings on loop | Arctic jellies | Historic forests | Worm invasion | DDT dads | February 13, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Permafrost carbon | Legacy pollution | Old coal mines | Naloxone-resistant opioid | Genetic discrimination | February 6, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Cradle of life lakes | Dr. Seuss trees | City birds | Baleen sniffers | Hell chicken | Shrinking moon | Safe fish | January 30, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Oilsands pollution | Plankton & fish | Forestry C02 | Ants & lions | Sea otters & kelp | Driving on weed | Costly veg | January 23, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Big climate salmon | Ancient kelp | Mammoth trek | St. Lawrence 02 | Fruit juice fat | B.C. opioid policy | January 16, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

T.rex’s cousin | Fossil skin | Toxic whales | Sharkfin catch | Low snowpack | Halibut spread | Suicide biomarkers | January 9, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

New Van. Isle quake fault | Alberta quake | Heatwave snowpack | Permafrost methane | ON family docs | OH the pain | December 19, 2023 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Woolly dogs | Wildlife killers | Larry’s plastics | Glysophate disappointment | Salmon chill | Piercing microbiome | December 12, 2023 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Record emissions | Warm winter | Polar bear footprint DNA | Animal evictions | Young tyrannosaur meal | December 5, 2023 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Toxic housing | Salmon vs mines | Watermelon snow | 2023 wildfire emissions | Low-balled methane | Seinfeld brains | November 21, 2023 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Prescribed fires | Biodiversity plan | Threatened lakes | Master muskoxen | Pesticide secrecy | Billion joints | November 28, 2023 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Net zero | Lightening strikes | Prescribed burns | Big birds | Smartphone addicts | Fast fash | Genetic testing | November 14, 2023 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Farm-free food | Boreal-architect wolves | Extremo-genes | Hockey head | Deep-sleep brain | Doggy cuddles | November 7, 2023 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Wildfire preparedness | Algal blooms | River plastics | Diamond-finding tool | Sunscreen paradox | Daily aspirin | October 31, 2023 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Birthing injuries | Male fertility | Red meat diabetes | Pain-dulling music | A.I. fish counts | Sweaty lakes | October 24, 2023 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

“Uncharted” climate territory | Total life | Lingering smoke | Grey whale busts | Zoo life | More “bad” cholesterol | October 17, 2023 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>