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Category: Chemistry for Energy and the Environment

Weathering of Arctic rocks produces CO2 in climate feedback loop

BY: Brian Owens

The breakdown of sulfide minerals like pyrite, or fool’s gold, is generating carbon dioxide, and the process is speeding up as the region warms.

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Forgetful student’s blunder sparks creation of eco-friendly hydroponic soil

BY: Sharon Oosthoek

They say necessity is the mother of invention, but for Adnan Sharif a dose of forgetfulness was the catalyst.

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How one researcher is improving air quality in the Toronto subway system

BY: Brian Owens

The concentration of tiny particulate matter is around 10 times higher than what is typically seen outdoors, and is higher than many other subway systems around the world.

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Les mystérieuses marées d’or

BY: Renaud Manuguerra-Gagné

Un chercheur de l’Université Mcgill a trouvé un lien entre l’eau de mer et la formation de dépôts importants d’or. Une découverte qui pourrait permettre de trouver des trésors sous-marins.

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Cooking up chemistry indoors

BY: Lesley Evans Ogden

Atmospheric chemists once thought photoreactions didn’t happen indoors because there wasn’t enough sunlight. Over the last decade, that thinking has begun to change.

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How geochemistry helped solve the mystery of the painted lady butterflies

BY: Sharon Oosthoek

It took a decade and an international team of researchers, including University of Ottawa isotope geochemist Clément Bataille, to figure out how these insects found their way to an unlikely spot.

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Des filets anti-insectes aux propriétés biochimiques inédites

BY: Axel Dansereau

Des chimistes espèrent réduire l’utilisation des pesticides en agriculture grâce à des filets anti-insectes dernier cri.

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Freshwater oil spills become more persistent over time

BY: Sharon Oosthoek

The longer it takes to clean up a freshwater oil spill, the more persistent compounds it produces. Researchers discover why.

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Cleaning water with quantum chemistry

BY: Brian Owens

How a University of Toronto student founded a company that uses quantum chemistry and artificial intelligence to discover and refine new materials to clean water of contaminants.

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Sulphur compounds reveal Mars’ watery past

BY: Lesley Evans Ogden

Hydrated magnesium sulfate and dehydrated calcium sulphate identified in rock samples suggest the planet may have once had streams, rivers, and lakes, and hydrothermal systems.

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Resistance to glyphosate on the rise among weeds

BY: Brian Owens

Since 1996, there have been 354 confirmed cases of glyphosate resistance in 57 weed species around the world. New study suggests a way forward.

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The case for storing nuclear waste in glass-ceramic composites

BY: Sharon Oosthoek

Glass-ceramic composite materials could store high-level nuclear waste. But does it resists corrosion from groundwater at least as well as glass alone? University of Saskatchewan student has an answer.

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