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Welcome to the chaos of the BSc ES program
Staff and faculty welcome the 24th class to Royal Roads University's BSc in Environmental Science program; There have been 842 graduates in this program to date

Something in the water: why fear influences our water decisions
Royal Roads' Sarah Wolfe talks about her investigation of emotion, death awareness, and water issues through her research.

Life as a babysitter of aquatic species
Royal Roads BSc in Environmental Science student muses about troubleshooting and maintaining healthy cultures of organisms as a key part of lab research

Tipping points at the heart of the climate crisis
There are critical tipping points that we will reach above a 1.5 C. degree warming, similar to a cascade of falling dominoes. Alarming signs are now occurring.

Understanding patterns to gain insight and new perspectives
Four Royal Roads faculty members attended the Climate Change and Consciousness Conference; A takeaway was the Co-Intelligence Institute's wise democracy cards.

Perhaps the best-selling RRU publication... ever
A team of BSc in Environmental Science students created a field guide for kindergartners as their final project; it's legacy as an educational resource lives on

MEM students publish book review in complexity journal
Royal Roads MA in Environment and Management students learn how to publish their work in peer-reviewed journals and have work published in complexity journal.

Which metals are lurking in Kelowna and West Kelowna garden soils?
Royal Roads' Matt Dodds has been studying potentially toxic metals in urban soils in Canada in collaboration with BSc and MSc students.

The Good Society
Edmonton has just incorporated a carbon budget limiting the greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) it can emit, hopefully, the first of many cities to do so.