Research & Development

Vertical solar panels, which promise to overcome the winter troubles plaguing their more horizontal relatives, are being trialed on a Vancouver science museum’s rooftop.

China brought the world's first large scale “flow” battery project online earlier this year, and developers in Europe are racing to build even bigger ones—signs that the energy storage battery technology is showing real-world promise.

Canada sits on vast geothermal potential, but with governments offering limited support, the sector must fight for private capital against the country's entrenched oil, gas, and hydropower industries.

The next generation of solar panels is getting dramatically better at turning sunlight into electricity, and the technology is being readied for mass production.

The war on Iran has sent fertilizer prices surging nearly 50%, but it's only the latest reason farmers in Canada and abroad are eyeing green ammonia: a fossil fuel-free fertilizer they could make themselves, right on the farm.

Non-producing oil and gas wells emit two types of methane: thermogenic and microbial. Using a newly-designed method for distinguishing between the two, a McGill University team found microbial methane is being emitted at rates 1,000 times higher than previously estimated. The finding points to “well integrity failure” as a primary...

Japanese automaker Toyota is expanding its Wałbrzych, Poland, plant into a hub for both production and recovery, announcing a new facility dedicated to recycling raw materials and parts from end-of-life vehicles.

Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD was set earlier this year to release a model that will be able to drive up to 400 kilometres after just five minutes of charging, though experts warn of infrastructure challenges.

The Trump administration is taking renewable energy out of the name of the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and largely expunging it from the mission, after announcing the rebrand in a December 1 media release.

From Windsor to Denver and beyond, a new wave of battery breakthroughs show energy storage systems making headway in North America.

A series of technical, granular, but essential changes in tax treatment for early-stage research and development will help “domesticate the supply chain for clean technologies”—even though they’re equally available to fossil fuel companies, a leading industry analyst says.

A cleantech start-up in Montreal has raised more investment capital than it was looking for to pilot a new long-duration, iron-oxide storage battery intended primarily for remote communities and industries.

A vanished skating tradition and a warming lake led to a question: Could a direct, personal loss make climate change feel more vivid? A new study in Nature Human Behavior uncovers what happens when data is distilled into stark binaries.

From 2006 to 2020, climate change contributed to about 15,000 deaths in the United States from exposure to fine particulate matter from wildfires and caused an estimated $160 billion in damages, according to one of the first studies to directly link climate change to mortality.

As the Trump administration fires climate researchers, bans certain words from scientific articles, cuts funding for environmental research, and deletes scientific reports from government websites, a McGill platform meant to connect specialists has taken on a different significance.