Artificial turf crumb rubber leaches environmental toxins

Published: 25 November 2019

New research spearheaded by scientists at McGill University reports that exposing chicken embryos, a model of higher vertebrate development, to leachate from crumb rubber used for example in...

McGill-led research unravels mystery of how early animals survived ice age

Published: 2 December 2019

How did life survive the most severe ice age? A McGill University-led research team has found the first direct evidence that glacial meltwater provided a crucial lifeline to eukaryotes during...

McGill Board of Governors receives recommendations to decrease carbon footprint of investment portfolio

Published: 3 December 2019

McGill University’s Board of Governors received today recommendations to reduce the overall carbon footprint of the University’s investments, as part of a report from the Committee to Advise on...

McGill University project on zero-carbon metal fuels launches into space

Published: 4 December 2019

Recently, a project testing metal combustion led by the Alternative Fuels Laboratory at McGill University launched on a European Space Agency rocket....

McGill University to decrease carbon intensity of investment portfolio

Published: 5 December 2019

McGill University is moving forward to reduce the overall carbon footprint of its investment portfolio, as part of its ongoing commitment to fighting climate change and its own stewardship role...

World’s most detailed database maps characteristics of Earth’s rivers and catchments

Published: 9 December 2019

Two researchers and friends from opposite ends of the Earth have created a world-first high spatial resolution atlas that maps the environmental characteristics of all the globe's rivers and...

Greater local earthworm diversity in temperate regions than in the tropics

Published: 24 October 2019

Surprisingly, in any single location, there are typically more earthworms and more earthworm species found in temperate regions than in the tropics, according to a study published this week in...

Abrupt shifts in Arctic climate projected

Published: 29 October 2019

Researchers from McGill University project that as the permafrost continues to degrade, the climate in various regions of the Arctic could potentially change abruptly, in the relatively near future...

Promising discovery could lead to a better, cheaper solar cell

Published: 31 October 2019

McGill University researchers have gained tantalizing new insights into the properties of perovskites, one of the world’s most promising materials in the quest to produce a more efficient, robust...

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