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 E-Mail The spread of the Internet is shaping migration in profound ways. A McGill-led study of over 150 countries links Internet penetration with migration intentions and behaviours, suggesting that digital connectivity plays a key role in migration decisions and actively supports the migration process. Countries with higher proportions of Internet users tend to have more people who are willing to emigrate. At the individual level, the association between Internet use and intention to migrate is stronger among women and those with less education. The same result was found for economic migra...

Comes down to machines. and all these things are a product -- all the risks that we're facing are a product of our own successes of species. we've had tremendous population growth and my dad was born -- there were fewer than 2 billion people on the planet. there are now seven and we're headed toward 10 billion. if you're an ecologist and you were looking at these population dynamics, say, an anthill or a bunch of bugs in a petrie dish, you would say, hmm, that population is headed for a crash. that's what i find scary, because populations don't rise that quickly forever and then just level off...

This family is called the pablo group, named after the male silverback who used to be in charge. pablo is still around, but another silverback, kansbey, is now the boss. >> that's the silverback. that's the adult male? >> that's the adult male silverback. >> an adult male can weigh about 400 pounds and eats up to 60 pounds of vegetation a day. >> she transferred for one of the tourist group. >> a biologist and director of data and research for the diane fossey foundation, veronica vacelio studies the three research groups. what's the value of having a group that's not a tourist group that's ju...

Data and research for the diane fossey foundation studies the three research groups. what's the value of having a group that's not a tourist group that's just a research group? >> continuing the research in gorillas is always important. give a lot of information in terms of population dynamics. >> population dynamics are important especially since there's only about 720 mountain gorillas left in the wild. and they're smack-dab in one of the world's worst conflict zones, even the gorillas seem to know it. you're here in the congo border and there's obviously so much instability in congo, how do...

The sfwhboss? >> yes. >> an adult male can weigh 400 pounds and eats up to 60 pounds of vegetation a day. >> a biologist and director of data and research for the dianne fosy situation studies rwanda's three research groups. what's the value of having a group that's not a tourist group that's just a research group? >> continuing the research in gorillas is very important. it always gives us a lot of information in terms of population dynamics. >> population dynamics are important, especially since there are only about 720 mountain gorillas left in the wild. and they're smack dab in one of the ...