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Meeting the Paris Agreement global warming target of 1.5°C will have large benefits to fisheries, finds a new Nippon Foundation-Nereus Program study published in Science. For every degree Celsius decrease in global warming, potential fish catches could increase by more than three million tonnes per year.

The opioid epidemic continues to worsen, with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reporting 81,000 overdose deaths from 2019 to 2020. Meanwhile, 19 American states have legalized recreational cannabis. Could cannabis be used as a substitute for opioids or help lessen the harms?

Many Pacific Island nations will lose 50 to 80 percent of marine species in their waters by the end of the 21st century if climate change continues unchecked, finds a new Nippon Foundation-Nereus Program study published in Marine Policy. This area of the ocean is projected to be the most severely impacted by aspects of climate change.

Reducing tourist consumption of reef fish is critical for Palau's ocean sustainability, finds a new Nippon Foundation-UBC Nereus Program study published in Marine Policy. While climate change threatens local reefs, shifting tourist seafood dining habits toward open-water fish offers an immediate path to marine conservation.

New to podcasting or wondering what the rich and famous are up to lately? Maybe you’re a veteran podcaster and wondering what shows are popular now. Well, celebrity podcasts are hot. There seems to have been an explosion lately, with everyone from big-name celebrities, like Oprah and Kate Hudson, to old favorites, such as Jason Bateman and Dana Carvey, now recording their own shows.

When Beth Frey, GrDip 09, MFA 15, started experimenting with AI art and posting it on Instagram, she thought of it as just a “weird little hobby.” “But about two months in, it went viral,” says Frey. “It started getting attention from all sorts of people, including in the film and music industries.”

“You know about Montreal girls, right?” In Montréal Girls, a new film from Patricia Chica, BFA 95, this loaded question underpins the drama that awaits a student who moves to the city. Chica describes her feature-length debut, which had its Canadian premiere on June 9, as “a romantic film, a very sexy, sensual movie” whose production was challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic.

A sculpture of a severed Persian warrior's head — smuggled from Iran and stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts — has landed in some unexpected places, including on an IKEA shelf in an Edmonton apartment. This story has inspired what multidisciplinary artist Anahita Norouzi will present at the MNBAQ exhibit this fall. “I'm interested in sound, image, land, violence and history as elements of an active archive, and time travel as a historical method,” she says. “My work serves as a means to ask questions that are most often inconvenient or unwanted.”

SaaS tools have revolutionized how businesses and individuals access software applications, with their ease of use, scalability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness. Simply put: They’re powerful productivity drivers. But the reality of having a distributed workforce with access to thousands of apps at their fingertips is also causing a staggering growth of "SaaS sprawl" and Shadow IT. As SaaS proliferates across enterprises with the rise of hybrid work, it’s important to be aware of the risks and manage accordingly. Here we provide our best advice on modern SaaS management.

Kenmore appliances may sound like your grandmother’s brand. And that would make sense – the name first appeared on sewing machines in 1913. Kenmore sold everyday appliances, such as fridges, washing machines, and vacuums, exclusively at Sears department stores. But the brand went through a tipping point when Sears declared bankruptcy.

“I've generated 87, almost 88 billion video views on YouTube, and a billion of them was just dumb luck… but the rest was strategy,” says top audience development strategist and expert Derral Eves. In this feature, Eves breaks down how creators and brands can stop guessing and start scaling their presence through purposeful content creation and audience psychology.