image credit: Brodin et al. 2024

June 25, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up

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>

Photo credit: Jordan Demeulemeester, Saulteau First Nations

June 18, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up

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>

June 11, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up

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>

elephant seal, by Anchor Lee, unsplash

June 4, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up

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>

May 28, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up

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>

Photo by Mathilde Massenet

May 21, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up

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>

May 14, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up

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>

Photo by Amanda Cotton

May 7, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up

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>

April 30, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up

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>

Image credit: Ray Troll 2023/Claeson et al. 2024, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0

April 23, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up

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>

Image credit: Wu et al 2024

April 16, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up

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>

Photo credit: Washington State U

April 9, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up

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>

April 2, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up

Rats! | Grizzly visits | Grey whale deaths | Climate mountains | BC wine boost | Condor wing blade | Refugee births | April 2, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

March 26, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up

Climate, city critters | Humans, bears, salmon | heat, drought, 2023 fires | Legacy mine metals | Doc hours down | March 26, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

photo credit: UHH/CLICCS/A. Barkhordarian

March 19, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up

New orca hunting culture | Lockdown critters | Shifting fish | Arctic ocean heat | Rare lichens | Dark matter? | March 19, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

March 12, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up

Ice-free timeline | Salmon die-offs | Drought night fires | Ski forecast | Asteroid strike | Fake vs real people | March 12, 2024 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

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