Energy & Sustainability

With help from Planetary Health Seed Fund, McMaster's observatory will join a network across North America monitoring migratory birds.

The new grant supports two-year interdisciplinary projects focused on living labs, energy pathways, nuclear energy and medicine, and energy transition and electrification. 

'Good science doesn't just happen in English.' Thomas Kanitz Rasmussen impressed international experts with his research and Spanish presentation at a conference in Perú.

Professors Carmel Mothersill and Soo Hyun Byun will lead the project to develop advanced radiation detection instruments for nuclear power plants and investigate the health and environmental effects of low-level radiation.

Dozens of students had an opportunity to learn about Canada’s nuclear industry first-hand from those who know it inside and out.

At Nuclear Renaissance 2.0, policymakers, industry leaders, researchers, and Indigenous representatives explored Canada’s role in building a net-zero future.

Santos dreamed of working in nuclear one day. Now, she's in it, with a summer research project that has the potential to change energy use in Canada someday.

Grad student Jolie Nguyen has spent two summers doing field work on an uninhabited Arctic island - surrounded by massive seabird colonies, polar bears, belugas and more.

How do firms and investors respond to biodiversity risks? Amir Akbari's research is highlighting the financial implications of environmental degradation - and bringing clarity to develop effective environmental policies and investment strategies.

"There's nowhere else I'd rather be, no one else I'd rather be working with and nothing else I'd rather be studying." Professor Sean Carey has made the Yukon his lab since he was a grad student.

Single-vehicle households that are replacing a gas-powered vehicle tend to choose different EVs from those adding an EV as a second car, with significantly different environmental and economic effects, a comprehensive survey of Canadian households shows.

New efforts by tech giants to revitalize nuclear - one of the safest and cleanest energy sources available - is an unexpected positive consequence of generative AI's vast power demands, write Goran Calic and Michael Tadrous.