Overview Articles
Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Research and Technology Initiative (CRTI)
The atmosphere inside one of Canada’s international airport control towers crackles with tension: An inbound plane has radioed to say they've found a suspicious white powder aboard and suspect a bio-terror attack. What to do? It's a fictional scenario. But post 9-11, in the age of dirty bomb fears and Sarin subway attacks, it's a situation for which Canadian security officials must be prepared. And they're turning to Canada's scientific community for help.
Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a critical part of Canada's response to global warming. However, lowering current emission levels will only slow climate change, not stop it.
Invasive Alien Species
What saps Canada's economy of billions of dollars annually, threatens the diversity of native animals and plants, and is even a risk to our health? While the impacts are enormous, the answer can be microscopic: invasive alien species.
Northern Science and Technology
A combination of factors has moved the Canadian Arctic to the scientific forefront. Scientists predict that the most dramatic climate changes will occur in the North making it a bellwether for broader change.
Oceans Science
With the world's longest coastline, and ocean-based industries generating $20-billion a year and providing 750,000 part and full-time jobs, Canada is defined by the sea. But it's a relationship that's facing enormous change.
Water
The years 1999 to 2001 were the driest in Alberta since records were first kept in 1919. Scientists report that pharmaceuticals are going from our toilets, into rivers and lakes, and back into our drinking water.
Wildlife Diseases
HIV-AIDS. West Nile virus. SARS. What do all these headline-making diseases have in common? They are all zoonoses, diseases that are transmitted from animals to humans. In fact, about 70 percent of the world's new and newly important human diseases of the past 50-years have originated in wild animals.