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Karen Kidd, an internationally recognized expert in chemical contamination of food webs, has been named the Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair in Environment and Health at McMaster University.

Expert in environmental health named new Jarislowsky Chair

Karen Kidd, an internationally recognized expert in chemical contamination of food webs, has been named the Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair in Environment and Health at McMaster University.
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Green industrial policy and the Canadian automotive industry

Stephanie Tombari talks green industrial policy.
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Revolutionizing agriculture, one tomato at a time

Engineering student Melissa Houghton spends nearly every hour of every day thinking about tomatoes. Ok, that's not entirely true - she also thinks about lettuce. And fish.

Historians launch book on Hamilton Harbour

It was a celebration more than 20 years in the making.
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Engineers developing kit to test for, destroy, pesticides in water

McMaster Engineers are on a search-and-destroy mission. Their target? The industrial poisons found in water.
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Climate change is turning the world’s bogs into fire hazards, researchers warn

The peat bogs of the world, once waterlogged repositories of dead moss, are being converted into fuel-packed fire hazards that can burn for months, warns a McMaster researcher in a paper published in the journal Nature Scientific Reports.
A new McMaster survey shows that consumer demand for electric vehicles like the Tesla Model X (left) and Model 3 (right) is likely to grow as the price of electric vehicles comes down.

Demand for electric vehicles will increase – if the price is right

The results of a McMaster-led survey on consumer attitudes toward electric vehicles shows that demand for vehicles like the hugely popular and comparatively affordable Tesla Model 3 will likely increase over time.