In the News

2022

• Panel explores what fair and sustainable future of food will need – Taproot Edmonton
• Groundwater study support granted by Tiny – Penticton Herald
• Tiny waits on clean-water study before endorsing gravel mining moratorium – Toronto Star
• Investigating what’s natural and what’s not – COSIA

2021

• The cleanest water on Earth is in Ontario. We must protect it before it’s too late – The Globe and Mail
• ‘Cleaner than ancient arctic ice,’ university scientists plan to study Tiny-area groundwater – orilliamatters.com
• Scientists sound the alarm: contaminants found in “cleanest” groundwater – Aware-Simco.ca

2018

• Scientist plans probe of reasons for purity of Site 41 water
• The cleanest water in the world is under threat – Indigenous Lands & Resources Today

2017

• Junk Science Week: Scientists love calling the oil sands effects ‘toxic,’ but their evidence shows no such thing – June 2017 – Financial Post
• Area water needs protection: scientist – May 2017 – Orillia Packet & Times, Ontario
• Opinion: What are natural levels of Athabasca River contaminants? – April 2017 – Edmonton Journal
• New Testing of The Athabasca River Showing Normal Levels of Toxic Metals – March 2017 – AM 770, The Morning News with Bruce Kenyon
• Three new studies find no elevated levels of toxic metals in Athabasca River near oilsands – March 6, 2017

2016

• Atmospheric lead deposition near oilsands in decline since 1970s … Findings counter belief that oilsands are polluting region with atmospheric lead.
  This new study has been published in Geophysical Research Letters
• Chemical Engineering News: Lead Pollution approaches natural background levels.
• Tap Water Is Clearly Better Than Bottled Water—Here’s Why, August 15, 2016
• Research claiming declining levels of atmospheric lead near oilsands in dispute

2014

• Athabasca River low in heavy metals from oilsands: U of A study, CBC news, December 5
• U of A water expert detects little heavy metals in oilsands moss, Alberta Water Portal, December
• Athabasca River water very low in lead from oilsands: University of Alberta lab, Penticton Herald, December 5
• Oilsands lead not seeping into rivers, lab tests show, CTV News, December 5
• U of A profs duel over lead study, Fort McMurray Today, December 14
• Alberta river water very low in lead from oilsands: U of A lab, Huffingtonpost.ca, December 5
• U of A water expert detects little heavy metals in oilsands moss, Edmonton Journal, October 21
• University of Alberta researcher finds Athabasca moss gathers less lead, Edmonton Sun, October 21

2012

• Soil Scientist honoured for fertile research career, Springwater news, p. 24, December 6.

2011

• The purest water in the world?, Canadian Geographic, p. 21-22, June.

2009

• Alliston Aquifer – Protest, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, August 11.
• Long fight over Midland-area dump heating up, Bill Sandform, The Toronto Star, May 30.
• World Water Day Interview, Goldhawk Fights Back, AM740 Radio, May 20.
• The battle over the world’s purest water, Martin Mittelstaedt, Monday’s Globe and Mail, May 4.

2008

• Heikle Stoffe im Mineralwasser, Beat Camenzind, K-Tipp Nr. 10, consumer magazine, May 21.
• Water bottles: which one should you use?,Alexandra Lopez-Pacheco, Green Living Magazine, March 17.

2007

• Sorting Out Lead Levels, Jake Yeston, Science, 316: 341, April 20.

2006

• Canada: Garbage to cover “best water on earth”, Martin Mittelstaedt, Toronto Globe and Mail, December 21.
• Ein Schweizer Moor in Mexiko, Heiko P. Wacker, Press office, University of Heidelberg, September 19.
• Ein Schweizer Moor in Mexiko, Heiko P. Wacker, Rhein-Neckar Zeitung, regional newspaper, September 19.
• Umweltsünden im ewigen Eis – Chemiker der Universität Heidelberg untersuchen Eisbohrproben aus der kanadischen Arktis, Aita Koha, SWR, Baden-Württemberg aktuell, September 5.
• Ewiges Eis speichert Umweltsünden – Chemiker untersucht Bohrkern, Christian Jung, dpa, Deutsche Presseagentur, August 20.
• Bottled antimony, Kris Christen, Environmental Science and Technology, March 22.
• Schwermetall aus der Plastikflasche, Heinz Wraneschitz, Technology Review, March 17.
• Antimon aus der Plastikflasche, Karl Hübner, die Tageszeitung (taz), Germany, Feb. 24.
• A toxic story from Europe to the far North, Jane George, Nunatsiaq News, Nunavut, Canada, Feb. 17.
• Mineral mit Schwermetall, Sigrid Cariola, Saldo – consumer magazine, Switzerland, Feb. 15.
• Antimon im Wasser, Leo Frühschütz, UMWELT kommunale ökologische Briefe 03: 5, Feb. 15.
• Messung von Antimonspuren in Mineralwasser, Uta Neubauer, Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), Switzerland, Feb. 8.
• Bottled Waters Contaminated with Antimony from PET, Press office, University of Heidelberg, Germany, Jan. 24.
• Mineralwasser aus PET-Flaschen ist mit Antimon verunreinigt, Press office, University of Heidelberg, Germany, Jan. 24.
• Is antimony the new lead?, Merlin Fox, Chemical Science, Royal Society of Chemistry, Jan. 24.
• Eiskalt erwischt, Stefan Zeeh, Press office, University of Heidelberg, Germany, Jan. 20.
• Toxin leaches into bottled water, Randy Richmond, The London Free Press, London, ONT., Canada, Jan. 20.
• Toxic risk in bottled water?, Katherine Sanderson, Chemistry World, Royal Society of Chemistry, Jan. 19.

2005

• Schwermetallstäube wehen durch die Städte, Susanne Donner, VDI Nachrichten 50: 18, Dec. 16.
• Antimon im Schnee,Leo Frühschütz, UMWELT kommunale ökologische Briefe 25-26: 5, Dec. 14.
• Ongoing Global Atmospheric Lead Contamination,Press office, University of Heidelberg, Germany, Nov. 28.
• Anhaltende globale Verunreinigung der Erdatmosphäre mit Blei,Press office, University of Heidelberg, Germany, Nov. 28.
• Globale Verschmutzung der Erdatmosphäre mit Antimon steigt,Press office, University of Heidelberg, Germany, Nov. 11.
• Increasing global atmospheric antimony contamination: should we put on the brakes?,Press office, University of Heidelberg, Germany, Nov. 9.
• Antimon – das vergessene Gift?,Informationsdienst Wissenschaft, Sept. 29.
• Antimon – ein globaler Schadstoff,Nachrichten aus der Chemie 53: 883-886, monthly News Magazine of the German Chemical Society (GDCh).
• Auf Spurensuche im ewigen Eis,Ruperto Carola 2: 10-15, Research Magazine of the University of Heidelberg, Germany.
• Ein unbeachtetes Umweltgift,Reinhold Kurschat, Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), Switzerland, July 27.
• Antimon – das unbeachtete Element,Press office, University of Heidelberg, Germany, May 4.
• Antimony in the Environment – 1st International Workshop,CORDISWire, April 24.
• Travelling in the polar time machine,Steve Down, Spectroscopy now, March 22.
• Overview of Geochemical Applications Involving Sector-Field HR-ICPMS Finnigan ELEMENT2,Joachim Hinrichs, Thermo Electron Corporation, Bremen, Germany, Spring 2005.
• TV-feature about the ice core research at the Institute of Environmental Geochemistry ,Südwestrundfunk, SWR, February 3.
• Im ewigen Eis ein Fenster in die Vergangenheit: Das Heidelberger Institut für Umwelt-Geochemie forscht in Kanada,Rhein-Neckar Zeitung, regional newspaper, February 1.
• Im ewigen Eis ein Fenster in die Vergangenheit: Das Heidelberger Institut für Umwelt-Geochemie forscht in Kanada,Press office, University of Heidelberg, Germany, Feb. 1.

2004

• Moore erzählen die Geschichte der Umweltverschmutzung, Chemie in Labor und Technik, Dec. 2004, pp. 450-455.
• Forscher wollen besonders scharf hinsehen können, Das neue Reinluftlaboratorium des Heidelberger Instituts für Umwelt-Geochemie: Keine Metalloberfläche sichtbar – Aufwendige Klimatechnik, Rhein-Neckar Zeitung, regional newspaper and Press office, University of Heidelberg, Germany, November 9.
• Digging up evidence of metal pollution, Chemistry World, Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, October 2004, pp. 44-47.
• Torfkerne aus dem Schwarzwald als Umweltarchive, Radio Interview with Radio Regenbogen (regional radio station), August 25.
• Geschichten aus dem ewigen Eis, Radio Interview with Radio Regenbogen (regional radio station), August 18.
• Bei Eisforschung ist Heidelberg Spitze, Neueste Entwicklungen der Umweltwissenschaften vorgestellt – Bleibelastung in den Polargebieten, Rhein-Neckar Zeitung, regional newspaper, August 8.
• A Window on the Environmental Sciences – Heidelberg Front Runner in the Analysis of Arctic Ice Samples, Press office, University of Heidelberg, Germany, July 22.
• Einblicke in die Umweltwissenschaften – Heidelberg führend in der Analyse arktischer Eisproben, Press office, University of Heidelberg, Germany, July 22.
• Universität lädt zur Umweltbörse ein, Rhein-Neckar Zeitung, regional newspaper, July 1.
• Geheimnissen der Erde auf der Spur, Press release, German Chemical Society (GDCh), June 3.