What does a group of 30 “sustainability” professionals do when they run into a pair of two-story-tall common house sparrows? Most of them admire the...

Like bees to honey, kids and dirt are inseparable – and teachers across the country are turning that impulse into an educational one.

Located in the basement of the Student Union Building, Sprouts is a student-run café and store that promotes food security along with local, sustainable and...

Vancity is pleased to announce the winners of its first $90,000 Good Money Impact™ Venture Challenge competition, launched to help post-secondary students and...

A public outcry over controversial “pink slime” in beef products has little bearing when it comes to health risks—especially in Canada, according to...

Whether from books like Diet for a New America, films like Food Inc., Internet videos like The Meatrix or The Simpsons episode when Lisa becomes vegetarian, most of us...

Last week’s news that retired fisheries biologist Otto Langer obtained documents revealing planned changes to the federal Fisheries Act has sent ripples through...

Clean Seed Capital Group is pleased to announce the Company's management team has elected to rename and rebrand its wholly owned subsidiary, Vesco Agricultural...

Some people have trouble hanging onto a bottle of wine for 24 hours. But this year marks the tenth anniversary of one of UBC’s lesser-known institutions: the...

A University of British Columbia study found minute traces of Listeria in one fifth of ready-to-eat fish products purchased from Vancouver stores, but no Listeria in...

I am going to India, one of the world's fastest-growing economies. Measured by purchasing power parity (how much it takes to buy a uniform set of goods), India...

Assistant Professor Kevin Allen talks with CBC News about his research team’s recent Listeria findings in Vancouver ready-to-eat fish products.

A University of British Columbia study has found traces of the bacteria listeria in ready-to-eat fish products sold in Metro Vancouver.

UBC food microbiologist...

A Vancouver nutritionist believes “it would be worth a shot” to place a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages and on processed foods that contain added sugars...

The University of B.C.'s student government is planning to get into the beer business.

UBC's Alma Mater Society (AMS) approved a plan for a 16-...

It’s no secret that many university students love drinking beer. But one Canadian school is taking things a step further.

The Province is reporting that...

The dairy industry continues to improve cow comfort with facility and freestall design. At the same time, the industry continues to do battle with lameness. The...

I think that any garden that is producing metre-high parsley plants and kale leaves the size of oars can’t be too compromised, but there is a growing sentiment in the...

The mid-morning sun is shining high above him, but it’s a crisp fall day and Clarence Webster kneels to add kindling to a fire. Nearby, his friends from the...

Is something rotten in the state of Canadian meat inspection? According to the union that represents federal food inspectors and other critics, the answer is yes....

Buying a bad bottle of Chardonnay laced with bitter tannins may soon be a thing of the past if Hennie van Vuuren has his way.

In what is believed to be the...

UBC is now offering a multidisciplinary course intended to give students from all faculties a chance to focus on sustainability.