Strategic Priority Areas: Planetary Health
Are there toxic chemicals in B.C.'s drinking water? A UBC professor plans to find out
Vancouver Sun | | Media coverage
UBC Engineering deploys mobile air pollution laboratory
| Announcement
An “air pollution lab on wheels”, PLUME will be used to measure air pollutants across Vancouver including carbon monoxide, ground-level ozone, black carbon, methane, volatile organic compounds, and various sizes of ultrafine particles.
Planetary Health
| Landing page
Climate change is undeniably one of the largest impacts of human behaviour and may be humankind’s greatest challenge.
Rethinking our relationship with water
| Announcement
Humans love to settle near coastlines and river valleys, lured by the flat, fertile land and opportunities for trade but water floods fields, swallows ships, and stirs up hurricanes that wipe out entire settlements in an instant.
Turning skyscrapers into trees
| Announcement
After years of research, a wood scientist, a mechanical engineer, and a chemical engineer have invented a new way to protect cities from climate change: turning buildings into giant trees.
If you can’t stand the heat: Tips to stay cool in B.C.’s first heat wave of the summer
Victoria News | | Media coverage
Diversifying B.C.’s supply chain crucial to combat negative impact of extreme weather
Saanich News | | Media coverage
3 Ways Cleantech solutions can help Canada's mining sector grow in sustainability
Forrbes | | Media coverage
UBC Engineering entrepreneurs join fight against plastic pollution
| Announcement
The end of plastic pollution—in the oceans, on land and in our air—is within reach with two UBC ventures working hard on solutions that could make this vision a reality.