Carbon debts. Saskatchewan pilgrimage. Sleep-deficient children.

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• Numerous media outlets examine a study by Damon Matthews, Associate Professor in the Department of Geography Planning and Environment, of the carbon and financial debts he says are associated with climate change:  Inside Climate News, Laboratory Equipment, AZO Cleantech, Grist, Phys Org, Science Daily, What's Up With That?, eScience News, #FollowNews, #cdnpoli, and OOYUZ. Matthews' study was recently published in Nature Climate Change.
• Media continue to report on a 350-kilometre pilgrimage along Saskatchewan's North West Mounted Police Trail, in July and August, co-organized by Concordia lecturer Matthew Anderson, who studies pilgrimages and teaches the subject in the Department of Theological Studies: Anderson was interviewed for Saskatoon's CKOM Newstalk 650 (no link available) and was featured in a piece in The Gull Lake Advance and in a feature report on SWTV, Swift Current (the feature begins at the 2:54 mark).
• Orange (Mauritius) joins the many media outlets that have reported on Concordia research into how poor sleep might explain the impact of stress on a child's health. The study was led by graduate student and researcher Jinshia Ly, Jennifer McGrath, associate professor in the Department of Psychology and Jean-Philippe Gouin, assistant professor in the same department.

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