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Chemistry for Energy and the Environment
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Category: Chemistry for Energy and the Environment

Making perovskite solar cells more durable

BY: Brian Owens

Over the past decade, however, a promising new class of photovoltaic material has come to the fore – perovskite crystals made of a combination of organic and inorganic materials, such as lead-halide.

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Quels risques se cachent dans la fumée des feux de forêt ?

BY: Renaud Manuguerra-Gagné

Au Canada, l’été 2023 a été marqué par la fumée des feux de forêt. Mais au-delà des avertissements sur la qualité de l’air, beaucoup de questions sur la nature même de cette fumée restent sans réponse. Des chercheurs tentent de dissiper ce brouillard.

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Great Lakes microplastics concentrations surpass safe levels for fish

BY: Sharon Oosthoek

At the levels surveyed, aquatic wildlife are at risk of ingesting enough microplastics to fill their guts, diluting their regular food and its nutritional value.

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Bitumen weathering studied under natural conditions – spilled into a lake

BY: Lesley Evans Ogden

In 2018, scientists deliberately poured dilbit into a freshwater lake, and now their findings – which they hope will inform future clean up efforts – are starting to come out.

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Can You Smell Me Now? How ’Bout Now?

Ocean acidification is going to do all sorts of weird things to animals’ sensory perception.

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Bear chemical bulletins: scratch and sniff

BY: Lesley Evans Ogden

Not long ago, the amusing habit of grizzly bears rubbing their backs against a tree was assumed to be because these bruins were scratching an itch. But research is revealing that back rubbing bears have more to say.

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Helping crops help themselves in their fight against pests

BY: Sharon Oosthoek

University-industry partnership aims to create a new type of chemical spray that helps plants fight their own battles and is less harmful to the environment.

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Some banned pesticides have almost disappeared from the air

BY: Brian Owens

Two recently banned pesticides have all but vanished from the atmosphere around the Great Lakes, but others phased out decades earlier don’t seem to be going anywhere.

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Slippery coating could help reduce microplastic shedding from clothes

BY: Brian Owens

Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a way to help reduce one of the biggest sources of the plastic pollution choking our oceans: not single-use straws or bags, but tiny fibres shed from synthetic fabrics like polyester and nylon.

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Une enzyme adepte du multitâche

BY: Renaud Manuguerra-Gagné

En résolvant un mystère cellulaire vieux de plus de 150 ans, des chercheurs de l’Université McGill ont découvert un couteau suisse moléculaire d’une polyvalence surprenante.

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Environmentally-friendly packing materials represent important First Nations partnership

BY: Sharon Oosthoek

A biomaterials researcher and a First Nations community are teaming up in British Columbia to produce biodegradable packing foam using scrap wood from logging. The partnership aims to create a product that can break down much faster than Styrofoam, which is made from fossil fuels.

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Controversy grows over mining leases for battery minerals in Quebec’s natural areas

BY: Sharon Oosthoek

Municipalities and environmental groups are sounding the alarm over a recent spike in exploratory mining claims for critical minerals in natural areas and near parks in the province’s southern tourist region.

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