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Environmental research at U of T, from the ozone layer to urban grime 
By Michael Smith

Capturing the breadth of environmental research at the University of Toronto is as difficult as defining the subject itself. "The environment" is, after all, about everything that has to do with life on Planet Earth. Similarly, U of T researchers and scholars are studying this very broad topic from every possible angle and from a dizzying variety of disciplines.

Of the university’s 2,500 faculty, there are, literally, hundreds officially conducting research into the environment and hundreds more doing work that is directly and indirectly related to the
physical state of the globe, the effects that humans have had on it (and that it, as a result, is now having on humans), and the possibilities for correcting the damage that has been done.

It’s impossible to tell the whole story. But it is still a story worth telling. For a glimmer of the talent and innovation at work on the environmental front at U of T, see the continuation of this story.
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University of Toronto Office of the Vice-President, Research and Associate Provost