Two UBC Vancouver faculty members, Dr. Patrick Keeling and Dr. Rachel Scholes, have been awarded $1-million Wall Fellowships, the university’s highest-value internal research award. The fellowships ...

Canada’s last epishelf lake drained into the Arctic Ocean following the 2020 breakup of the Milne Ice Shelf and will not recover, a new study confirms. Epishelf lakes form when an ice shelf acts as a ...

After over a century in storage at the Smithsonian Institution, the only surviving pelt of the once-abundant woolly dog is being brought back to the region from which it originated. Woolly dogs were ...

Their work will strengthen Canada’s research capacity, train future talent and drive innovation in areas critical to global competitiveness. Aug 27, 2026 Nine world-leading researchers will join the ...

Scrambling through dense salal in the dark, weaving between the majestic western red cedars of northern Haida Gwaii, I could barely imagine where we were just days before — crossing Dixon Entrance off ...

A landmark partnership between the Wet’suwet’en First Nation and UBC is pioneering a made-in-B.C. solution to the global plastic crisis, turning local forestry waste into biodegradable foam packaging.

Contrary to common assumptions, pigeons do not lock their eyes in place during flight. Instead, they make slow, subtle eye movements that may help them gather more information about their surroundings ...

Researchers are sharing lessons from the unprecedented Stanley Park coyote attacks from 2020 to 2021 to help people better coexist with urban wildlife. Coyotes are here to stay, say authors of a new ...

A sweeping global review led by researchers at the University of British Columbia has found that mRNA vaccines—now administered billions of times worldwide—are safe and highly effective at preventing ...

As climate change warms rivers across B.C., young salmon are facing increasing heat stress at vulnerable stages of their lives. Two new studies from UBC’s Pacific Salmon Ecology and Conservation Lab ...

With over four decades of expertise in high-performance turf management, Gary Bartley, head groundskeeper at UBC, is the technical architect behind the world-class soccer pitch at UBC Vancouver. Since ...

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