International Working Group seeks to address the severe environmental degradation in Nigeria’s Bayelsa State
IWG members from left to right: Michael Watts, Kathryn Nwajiaku-Dahou, Engobo Emeseh, Anna Zalik, Emem Okon, Isaac Asume Osuoka. In May 2026, the International Working Group (IWG) on Petroleum Pollution and Just Transition in the Niger Delta held a week of activities that included a town hall meeting and engagement ...
Advancing climate resilience through AI, geophysics, and geotechnics
Adedibu Sunny Akingboye EUC recently welcomed Dr. Adedibu Sunny Akingboye as a Connected Minds Postdoctoral Fellow, collaborating with Dr. Adeyemi Olusola on interdisciplinary research that integrates geotechnical engineering, artificial intelligence, and environmental systems. His work focuses on understanding how climate-related hazards, particularly flooding, influence both surface and subsurface conditions, shaping ...
Ethnic political identities, multicultural policies, and land rights in Northern Chile
by Ximena Cecilia Martinez Trabucco The materiality of land is ductile, not simply because tectonic forces shift the Earth’s plates or because the interaction of water and soil continuously reshapes the landscape, but because land acquires different valences and uses across time and among different actors. Under Dr. Carlota McAllister’s ...
Teetering on the edge of surplus: Neurodivergent work, social reproduction, and bodyminds in the Ontario labour market
by Anna Grace Pawliw-Fry Anna Grace Pawliw-Fry Discriminated against within employment, ND workers put in a lot of work to make work possible. They take up many ‘teetering’ behaviours to cope. These are protective but also unsustainable, causing high temporal, financial, social, and mental costs and, at times, pushing workers ...
“You can’t say, ‘bye cows it’s too cold’”: Multidimensional precarities and the ruralization of im/migrant workers’ lived experience in southern Alberta feedlots
by J. Lawrenz Decano My father moved to Canada almost twenty years ago as a temporary foreign worker (TFW). Nearing the end of his employment contract, the animal shelter that recruited him and other Filipino migrant workers refused to offer them support to become permanent residents despite initial promises to ...
The demise of Trudeau’s promising carbon pricing policy
By Gurneet Singh This research was presented at the inaugural Undergraduate Research Fair at EUC and received an Honourable Mention. In a world of unprecedented environmental destruction and a looming climate crisis, successful policies mean the difference between decisions that bring us closer to or farther from a sustainable existence ...
York University and University of Iceland researchers launch National Ecological Footprint & Biocapacity Accounts 2026
On Earth Day, April 22, 2026, the International Ecological Footprint Learning Lab recently hosted a landmark webinar to launch the 2026 edition of the National Ecological Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts. The 2026 launch specifically highlighted how this ecological data connects with global human well-being metrics. The latest release was presented ...
EUC hosts first undergraduate research fair
Interim President and Vice-Chancellor Lisa Phillips, conversing with Gurneet Singh about her research. The Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC) hosted its first Undergraduate Research Fair on March 18th, 2026, at York University. Initiated by the Environmental and Urban Change Students’ Association (EUCSA) led by Gurneet Singh, the fair ...
EUC Peer Mentor Program and Green Career Fair foster academic student training and professional development
EUC Student Success and Academic Advisors, Pip Horne and Denise McLeod. For the first time, EUC undergraduate students presented at the annual YUAdvise Conference in February 2026, a significant milestone, as students have not typically been featured as presenters at this pan-university event. Through their session, Intentional by Design: Evolving ...
Growing Black food sovereignty in Toronto
by Patricia F. Walker, PhD Student, Environmental Studies On February 23, 2026, the EUC community came together to celebrate Black History Month and to learn about the work of Nicole Jacobs, Aaron Joseph, and Charlyn Ellis, MES students and leaders in the food justice and Black food sovereignty movement in ...