Category: Heads Up

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>  

Brain cell atlas | Overheating Earth | Extreme fires | Orca diet | Canny falcons | Wastewater RSV | Ozempic effects | October 10, 2023 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Sea ice records | Fading glaciers | Waning walruses | Frogs in hot water | Fearful savannah | Falling antimatter | October 3, 2023 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Permafrost 2100 | Wildfire smog | Wind energy opposed | Great quakes | Grizzly roads | Spiral galaxy numbers | September 26, 2023 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Long-COVID kids | Climate-clobbered whales | Big lake foodchain change | Toxic parks | Mars minerals | Opioid ERs | September 19, 2023 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Life-unsafe Earth | Record wildfires | Permafrost | Dam beavers | Arctic haze | Bird bye-ways | Rink sinks | September 12, 2023 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Bison-slaughter impacts | 1 B climate deaths | Heatwave frequency | River chem | Weed traffic | Skin cancer risk | September 5, 2023 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

2023 spring wildfires | Lightning fires | Salish Sea fish losses | Opportune whale | Blubber plastic | Brain shift | August 22, 2023 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Moderate-heat deaths | Clearcut flooding | Antarctic pollution | Lake Erie algal blooms | Teen vaping | August 8, 2012 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Canada’s COVID response | Current collapse | Salmon by catch | Variable Arctic spring | Orca fights | Mammal eats dino | July 25, 2023 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>