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In a changing climate, the financial sector will more than ever need precise data, predictions and projections to assess investment

[ad_1] European and North American cybercops, including in Canada, have joined forces to disrupt what may be the world’s largest network

[ad_1] A carved stone pillar found at low tide on a beach in Victoria last summer is an Indigenous cultural

[ad_1] Kamloops, B.C., resident Todd Mason was going to bed Saturday night when he heard an “awful racket” on the

[ad_1] The European Space Agency released a series of photos showing the first perspective of the Earth, Venus and Mars seen

[ad_1] It is very likely that the environmentally inclined economist Mariana Mazzucato, whose new book, Mission Economy, hits the shelves

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[ad_1] Facebook says it would welcome increased regulation by the Canadian government, including rules for what kind of content should

[ad_1] There has been another cougar photographed just outside of Thunder Bay, Ont. On Monday evening, an adult cougar showed

[ad_1] From chameleon-inspired camouflage to clothing that mends itself when damaged, the Department of National Defence is looking to outfit

[ad_1] The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced Wednesday the 2021 Doomsday Clock remains unchanged from its 2020 spot at 100 seconds

[ad_1] U.S. President Joe Biden signed a raft of executive actions on Wednesday to combat climate change, including pausing new oil

[ad_1] The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium estimate less than 400 North Atlantic

[ad_1] Bird feeders have become a source of pandemic joy for bird lovers in B.C.’s Lower Mainland, but they could

[ad_1] The first private space station crew was introduced Tuesday: Three men, including a Canadian, who are each paying $55

[ad_1] A suspicious package left last week at Cape Breton University for the school’s president turned out to be nothing more

[ad_1] A made-in-Canada vaccine to protect against COVID-19 is to begin human clinical trials Tuesday in Toronto, says the biotechnology

[ad_1] Researchers have discovered the first baby tyrannosaur fossils in Alberta and Montana.  Experts say the fossils are a rare discovery,

[ad_1] A veteran rocket from billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s SpaceX aerospace company launched 143 spacecraft into space on Sunday, a new record

[ad_1] Roughly 212 light years away in the Virgo constellation lies a super-large exoplanet that has astronomers revising their theory

[ad_1] Thirteen North Atlantic whale calves have been spotted off the coast of the southern United States — more than

[ad_1] The snowy owl that was released by the Atlantic Vet College in early January after recovering from starvation. (UPEI

[ad_1] If Iqalummiut feel like winter has been especially mild this year, they’re not wrong. Temperatures have been unseasonably balmy by Iqaluit

[ad_1] Google on Friday threatened to make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the government went ahead with plans

[ad_1] As industries across the province shed jobs in response to COVID-19, the video game industry in Nova Scotia is

[ad_1] Scientists used raw eggs to simulate the damaging effects on the brain from strikes to the head, with surprising

[ad_1] Tesla Inc. chief and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk took to Twitter on Thursday to promise a $100 million US prize

[ad_1] Researchers at McMaster University have developed a new form of cultivated meat using a method they say promises more

[ad_1] As U.S. President Donald Trump leaves office, the Arctic is probably far from the minds of most Americans. Yet

[ad_1] Twitter has locked the account of the Chinese Embassy in the U.S. for a tweet that defended China’s policies

[ad_1] Millions of years ago, giant predatory worms as long as an adult human terrorized the ocean. The fearsome creatures hid under the

[ad_1] Thousands of fake Canadian government websites, emails and apps that take advantage of the pandemic to try to mine personal data

[ad_1] Researchers in Washington state have found that the impact nearby boats have on endangered southern resident killer whales isn’t

[ad_1] Incoming U.S. president Joe Biden will announce America’s return to the international Paris Agreement to fight climate change on

[ad_1] Shaun Tobac loves to hunt. Between moose and caribou in the Sahtu region, Tobac takes what he needs for

[ad_1] In most B.C. cities, cats can balance on bars and walk on wires without any municipal oversight.  But some are

[ad_1] A British Columbia company that feeds food waste to insects to produce pet food has received $6 million from

[ad_1] A monarch butterfly that missed Mexico migration has been spending winter in Manitoba with a couple grateful for the company.

[ad_1] This column is an opinion by Eva Schacherl, an advocate for the responsible management of radioactive waste. She has worked for

[ad_1] Billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit reached space for the first time on Sunday with a successful test of its

[ad_1] Solving the climate crisis by boosting investments in new technologies will be at the centre of the Biden administration’s job creation

[ad_1] Twitter on Sunday temporarily suspended the account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican U.S. congresswoman from Georgia who

[ad_1] A new partnership between Parks Canada and the Calgary Zoo aims to protect and revitalize the population of a

[ad_1] An apparent family of sabre-toothed cats with an unusual genetic quirk is providing new hints about how the predators lived

[ad_1] An archeologist wants to learn more about historic construction in Nova Scotia — and things like old shoes and

[ad_1] The Canadian Coast Guard is throwing technology behind an effort to better protect southern resident killer whales and other cetaceans in

[ad_1] CES, the flashy, annual tech show always sure to unveil a few headline-grabbing inventions and tech trends, is usually held

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[ad_1] Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin company launched a new capsule into space Thursday to test all the astronaut perks before

[ad_1] A $3.5-million Alberta government public inquiry into alleged foreign-funded anti-energy campaigns has posted commissioned studies that experts say are

[ad_1] Once again, 2020 was a hot one. According to NASA and recent findings from the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, last

[ad_1] In 1923, scientists Frederick Banting and John Macleod were jointly awarded a Nobel Prize — Canada’s first — for

[ad_1] Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey defended his company’s ban of U.S. President Donald Trump in a philosophical Twitter thread that

[ad_1] The International Space Station bid adieu Tuesday to 12 bottles of French Bordeaux wine and hundreds of snippets of

[ad_1] The world’s vital insect kingdom is undergoing “death by a thousand cuts,” according to the world’s top bug experts.

[ad_1] State and federal wildlife officials are investigating reports of a manatee found with “Trump” drawn on its back in

[ad_1] Father-and-son team Yoland and Shaun Talbot thought they’d hit the jackpot with Yoland’s very first invention.   But instead of

[ad_1] Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today announced that Canada would commit up to $55 million to a United Nations initiative

[ad_1] President Donald Trump has been kicked off of most mainstream social media platforms following his supporters’ siege on the

[ad_1] A rare bird was spotted in Yukon last week. Birders flocked to Haines Junction to spot a hawfinch, which

[ad_1] A research project is analyzing how many microplastics, some invisible to the eye, are accumulating in the North Saskatchewan River. A

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[ad_1] Volunteer bird watchers will be combing the province this year counting birds and looking for signs of nesting activity.

[ad_1] Astronomy education in Canada is “very, very centred in the European model,” said Hilding Neilson, who is Mi’kmaw and

[ad_1] Of the electronic devices used in Canada, LG smartphones top the list of devices Canadians said have broken the

[ad_1] Both a natural COVID-19 infection and a vaccination are expected to protect you from getting sick with COVID in

[ad_1] Twitter has permanently suspended U.S. President Donald Trump’s account, the social media company announced Friday, citing the risk of “incitement

[ad_1] Last year tied with 2016 as the world’s warmest on record, rounding off the hottest decade globally as the

[ad_1] When Pauline Carrier looked out the living-room window of her northern New Brunswick home, hundreds of seals were floating

[ad_1] An environmental coalition is appealing to Ontario teachers to pressure their pension fund to divest from companies that develop

[ad_1] To the uninitiated, they look like chipped rocks. To Julio Mercader of the University of Calgary, they look like

[ad_1] In an unprecedented step, Facebook and Twitter suspended U.S. President Donald Trump from posting to their platforms Wednesday following

[ad_1] Almost as far as the eye can see, trash spreads out over Serbia’s Potpecko Lake, lapping against the dam

[ad_1] Vuntut Gwitchin traditional territory is one of the fastest warming areas in the world. That’s why the Vuntut Gwitchin Government

[ad_1] A B.C. conservation officer is highlighting the dangers of some types of metal residential fencing after three recent incidents

[ad_1] Crashing waves are part of the thrill of a trip to the beach, but Johannes Gemmrich says most people are unaware of

[ad_1] The amount of baked-in global warming, from carbon pollution already in the air, is enough to blow past international

[ad_1] A species of fish you’ve probably never heard about has made a major comeback from being endangered, but now B.C.

[ad_1] A pilot project in Banff National Park that is using escape trails and other spaces cut along a rail line to

[ad_1] The blue whale that caused a worldwide stir when it washed up in Trout River, and later moved on to

[ad_1] Looking back at 2020, it was a pretty good year for not only space exploration, but also some wonderful

[ad_1] A well-preserved ice age woolly rhino with many of its internal organs still intact has been recovered from permafrost

[ad_1] Volcanoes that have been quiet for decades are rumbling to life in the eastern Caribbean, prompting officials to issue

[ad_1] Environment Canada has released its top 10 weather stories of the year, and no part of Canada was spared.

[ad_1] A strong earthquake hit central Croatia on Tuesday, destroying buildings and sending panicked people fleeing into rubble-covered streets in

[ad_1] A Chinese lunar capsule returned to Earth with the first fresh samples of rock and debris from the moon

[ad_1] Look out your window. Is there a tree there that provides a shady spot in your yard in the

[ad_1] A dog laid to rest with care some 7,000 years ago, the now-fossilized bones adorned with a necklace of

[ad_1] A fast-food eatery at Pompeii has been excavated, helping to reveal dishes that were popular for the citizens of

[ad_1] Benbie Holsteins in south-central Saskatchewan milks 150 Holsteins every day, but the dairy farm does not need all of

[ad_1] Scientists who have been studying a rare, perfectly preserved ancient wolf pup found in Yukon are sharing some of their findings for

[ad_1] The federal government has submitted a report to UNESCO, outlining how much progress it’s made on a 2019 action

[ad_1] It’s the time of year when those who are lucky may find a shiny, new device under the tree,

[ad_1] Nancy Pearson picks up a bag (or two) of litter each day on Black Bank Beach, as well as

[ad_1] Current speed restrictions for ships moving through Canadian waters will not prevent North Atlantic right whales from being killed if

[ad_1] Climate change is having a widespread effect on lakes across the Northern Hemisphere, a new study has found. The study,

[ad_1] Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island roared back to life Sunday night as lava went shooting into the air,

[ad_1] Apple Inc. is moving forward with self-driving car technology and is targeting 2024 to produce a passenger vehicle that

[ad_1] Parts of British Columbia could see massive losses if the province doesn’t start planning for flooding as ocean waters

[ad_1] ICCAT, the international body that governs tuna fishing, has set the quota for the bluefin tuna catch in the

[ad_1] A rare celestial event is making an already unique holiday season even more unusual as what’s been dubbed the “Christmas

[ad_1] Texas, backed by nine other states, filed a lawsuit against Alphabet Inc.-owned Google on Wednesday, accusing it of breaking

[ad_1] The controversial open-net salmon farms in the Discovery Islands near Campbell River, B.C., will be phased out over the

[ad_1] Armand Séguin planted his first genetically modified tree — a poplar — more than 20 years ago at a research station

[ad_1] A research team is flying up to the source of a massive landslide that ripped through a valley on

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[ad_1] Often at this time of year, we might have a list of the top science stories of the year,

[ad_1] Nuclear power is essential to meeting Canada’s climate-change goals, and developing portable mini nuclear reactors is a key part

[ad_1] Animal advocates have asked the federal health minister to review a decision that allows Alberta to keep using strychnine

[ad_1] A Montreal-based company that runs a popular porn website is being sued by 40 women in California who claim

[ad_1] The massive hacking campaign disclosed by U.S. officials this week and tentatively attributed to the Russian government extended beyond

[ad_1] New research shows that more than 90 per cent of sunflower sea stars off the West Coast have died over

[ad_1] The country’s spy agency is warning companies in the vaccine supply chain that malicious foreign actors could threaten the largest inoculation

[ad_1] Twitter Inc. said on Wednesday that users will be required to remove new tweets that advance harmful false or

[ad_1] The federal government says it has signed an agreement with the United States to send a Canadian astronaut around

[ad_1] A nearly “zero-emissions” building site in Oslo, using electric machinery, could be a pioneer for greener construction as the

[ad_1] If you have a keen eye, you may have noticed two fairly bright objects resembling stars low in the western

[ad_1] One of the largest class-action settlements in Canada could be worth money in your pocket. And depending on the

[ad_1] Officials from Japan’s space agency said Tuesday they have found more than the anticipated amount of soil and gases

[ad_1] Researchers are aiming to “teach” a computer to recognize the sounds of resident killer whales in order to develop a

[ad_1] The mass data breach at Desjardins — the largest ever in the Canadian financial services sector — was caused by a series

[ad_1] Many services from Alphabet Inc., including YouTube, Gmail and Google Drive, were down for thousands of users across the

[ad_1] Credit card companies MasterCard and Visa say they will no longer allow the cards to be used on Pornhub,

[ad_1] A locked-down pandemic-struck world cut its carbon dioxide emissions this year by seven per cent, the biggest drop ever,

[ad_1] The nights may be frigid as temperatures dip to well below zero across most of the country, but there’s

[ad_1] In 1985, Chuck Yeager — famous as the pilot who broke the sound barrier — was visiting Canada on a book

[ad_1] There is a saying, among some scientists: “If you like your seven-day forecast, thank an oceanographer.” That’s because, in

[ad_1] Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson is not an objective analyst of federal climate policy. But his analysis of the Liberal

[ad_1] A bug affecting Canada’s COVID Alert app has not been entirely fixed as federal officials first announced, leaving an

[ad_1] The Canadian Security and Intelligence Service’s use of publicly available geolocation data without a warrant may have broken the

[ad_1] Five years after it was passed, the Paris agreement may finally be changing the climate on climate change. “I’ve

[ad_1] This year’s vast wildfires in far northeastern Russia were linked to broader changes in a warming Arctic, according to

[ad_1] U.S. regulators asked Wednesday for Facebook to be ordered to divest from its Instagram and WhatsApp messaging services as the

[ad_1] Researchers believe they have found a previously unknown species of beaked whale in waters off Mexico’s western coast. If

[ad_1] Pornhub said Tuesday it was halting unverified users from uploading video material after a report alleged that the pornographic website

[ad_1] Prominent U.S. cybersecurity firm FireEye said Tuesday that foreign government hackers with “world-class capabilities” broke into its network and

[ad_1] This column is an opinion by Kyle Hiebert, a research analyst in Winnipeg and former deputy editor of the Africa Conflict

[ad_1] Facebook has started enforcing new rules for advertisers in Canada meant to prohibit discrimination in ads for jobs, housing and credit

[ad_1] Brain scans offer a tantalizing glimpse into the mind’s mysteries, promising an almost X-ray-like vision into how we feel

[ad_1] Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo and Nestlé continue to be the world’s biggest plastic polluters, according to data compiled by the global environmental

[ad_1] Retired air force Brig.-Gen. Charles (Chuck) Yeager, the Second World War fighter pilot ace and quintessential test pilot who showed

[ad_1] When Vernon Kejick got a first taste of Starlink satellite internet on the Pikangikum First Nation, his initial review

[ad_1] A Fort McMurray, Alta., student is the first Canadian to win the $500,000 Cdn international Breakthrough Junior Challenge, a prize that

[ad_1] Officials have declared an outbreak of COVID-19 at a mink farm in B.C.’s Fraser Valley, east of Vancouver, after

[ad_1] A small capsule from Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft successfully landed in a sparsely populated desert in the Australian Outback on

[ad_1] More than 60,000 koalas were killed, injured or displaced in Australian bushfires last summer, the World Wide Fund for

[ad_1] New Zealand promised its public sector would become carbon neutral by 2025 as it declared a climate emergency on

[ad_1] The European Space Agency released the latest data from its Gaia spacecraft this week showing the positions of 1.8

[ad_1] Ontario’s annual greenhouse gas emissions rose for the first time in nearly a decade during the first year the Ford

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[ad_1] The National Science Foundation (NSF) has released new footage of the collapse of the Arecibo telescope platform in Puerto Rico.

[ad_1] Environmental groups are accusing the Trudeau government of acting in bad faith after it quietly signed a bilateral agreement

[ad_1] How dark is space? Astronomers attempting to answer the question found a surprising answer: not as dark as they thought

[ad_1] This column is an opinion by Merran Smith and Sarah Petrevan. Smith is the executive director and Petrevan the policy director of Clean Energy

[ad_1] Clearwater Seafoods is dropping Marine Stewardship Council certification for its Canadian offshore lobster fishery, calling it “a voluntary decision

[ad_1] Unseasonably warm temperatures so far this month are causing Northwest Territories residents some problems. In Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T., Chuck Gruben’s

[ad_1] It seems like a no-brainer to use clean-burning hydrogen to offset the environmental negatives of natural gas for warming

[ad_1] China said Thursday its latest lunar probe has finished taking samples of the moon’s surface and sealed them within

[ad_1] Necropsies of over 50 killer whales over the last decade show more of the mammals are dying as a

[ad_1] The Fort Nelson First Nation in northeastern B.C. is calling on the provincial government for help with a $6.3-million shortfall

[ad_1] IBM is sounding the alarm over hackers targeting companies critical to the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, a sign that

[ad_1] Canada is joining 13 other countries in a non-binding pledge to sustainably manage 100 per cent of its oceans by 2025, continuing

[ad_1] Singapore has given U.S. start-up Eat Just the green light to sell its lab-grown chicken meat, in what the

[ad_1] The cost of digital services and goods sold by foreign companies like Netflix will go up under a taxation

[ad_1] The world’s governments plan to produce more than double the amount of coal, oil and gas in 2030 than would

[ad_1] The Canadian navy’s new frigates will get a cutting-edge radar system that has never before been installed on a

[ad_1] China successfully landed a spacecraft on the moon’s surface on Tuesday in a historic mission to retrieve lunar surface

[ad_1] The largest electric bus fleet in North America is Canadian. Toronto’s transit system is now running 59 electric buses

[ad_1] A huge, already damaged radio telescope in Puerto Rico that has played a key role in astronomical discoveries for

[ad_1] The multiple announcements of potential vaccine candidates in the fight against COVID-19 has been greeted positively around the world,

[ad_1] Several Canadian universities are preparing to test wastewater from long-term care homes in Ottawa, Toronto and Edmonton to get

[ad_1] The Niagara Falls of news releases into any journalist’s in-box attest that there is always plenty of contention for the

[ad_1] An 80-year-old man who is visually impaired and received a $13,000 bill from Virgin Mobile is no longer on the

[ad_1] AstraZeneca and Oxford University on Wednesday acknowledged a manufacturing error that is raising questions about preliminary results of their

[ad_1] Beyond the receding glaciers and disappearing coastlines, several recent studies have taken a big picture view of how climate

[ad_1] A team of Canadian scientists is urging the federal government to step up its conservation efforts in the eastern

[ad_1] A Chinese robotic probe called Chang’e 5 is on its way to the moon where it will land, scoop

[ad_1] The Black Friday, Cyber Monday, pre-Christmas pandemic online shopping frenzy calls for huge fleets of trucks and vans to

[ad_1] Tony Hsieh, the retired CEO of Las Vegas-based online shoe retailer Zappos.com who spent years working to transform the

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[ad_1] In September, scientists announced they had found a chemical signature in the clouds of Venus that they said could

[ad_1] Billionaire Elon Musk’s satellite internet service is now streaming to some homes in New Brunswick. Starlink has enlisted some

[ad_1] The Nature Trust of New Brunswick is warning that an amphibian reserve in Fredericton has high levels of heavy

[ad_1] Treasury Board President Jean-Yves Duclos will today release the federal government’s plan to drive down greenhouse gas emissions within the

[ad_1] Large meat-eating dinosaurs attained their great size through very different growth strategies, with some taking a slow and steady

[ad_1] Rocky the stowaway owl is back in the wild. The tiny Saw-whet owl was named Rockefeller after it was

[ad_1] A major study looking into the deaths of North Atlantic right whales has found that entanglement in fishing gear

[ad_1] For the second time this month, Canada has ordered a temporary fishery closure in the Roseway Basin off southern

[ad_1] Canadians across the country, except for those living in Nunavut, can expect to have their Wednesday interrupted by an

[ad_1] A group of 15 young people will try again to have the courts force Ottawa to develop a climate

[ad_1] The Manitoba government has spent less than nine per cent of the $67 million in climate change funding promised by the

[ad_1] Environmental groups say a new ban on a highly polluting shipping fuel in Arctic waters is full of gaps

[ad_1] China launched an ambitious mission on Tuesday to bring back rocks and debris from the moon’s surface for the

[ad_1] The Canada Energy Regulator says reaching net-zero emissions over the next 30 years will to require a much more

[ad_1] Salt that crystallizes with sharp edges is the killer ingredient in the development of a reusable mask because any

[ad_1] Volunteers armed with tennis balls, sticks and cans filled with coins will be a new kind of soldier in

[ad_1] Motorists would have to pay a fee to drive into Vancouver’s downtown core under a plan to slow climate

[ad_1] Independent Quebec Sen. Julie Miville-Dechêne is calling for a crackdown on the consumption of online pornography by young people

[ad_1] Greenhouse gas concentrations climbed to a new record in 2019 and rose again this year despite an expected drop

[ad_1] Operation Warp Speed, a Trump administration initiative to manufacture COVID-19 vaccines as fast as possible, should be lauded as a

[ad_1] An Indigenous-owned solar farm in remote northeast Alberta, branded the largest project of its kind in Canada, celebrated its

[ad_1] Environment and Climate Change Minister Jonathan Wilkinson tabled new legislation today that would force current and future federal governments to set

[ad_1] This week saw one giant leap for commercial space exploration, as SpaceX’s Dragon capsule arrived at the International Space

[ad_1] The EU’s efforts to rein in the power of big tech companies such as Google and Facebook through antitrust

[ad_1] A satellite jointly developed by Europe and the United States being launched this weekend will greatly help scientists keep

[ad_1] After almost six decades of cutting-edge research — and having survived hurricanes and earthquakes — the world’s most famous radio telescope

[ad_1] Microbes could be put to use in future human space settlements extracting metals and rare elements from rocks, according to a

[ad_1] Sweden’s health agency said on Thursday a number of people who work in the mink industry had tested positive

[ad_1] A team of engineering students from University of Waterloo has invented a new type of smartphone camera lens called

[ad_1] The National Science Foundation in the U.S. announced Thursday that it will close the huge telescope at the renowned

[ad_1] The federal government’s climate plan, announced Thursday, is facing criticism for not moving fast enough. Meanwhile, the political rhetoric from

[ad_1] Most of us take pains to avoid picking up ticks when we’re outdoors. But one group in the Miramichi region

[ad_1] Ontario’s auditor general says the province is not on track to meet its greenhouse gas emissions targets because the

[ad_1] The only known white giraffe in the world has been fitted with a GPS tracking device to help protect

[ad_1] Spectacular photos and videos of large and healthy looking caribou herds have been lighting up social media in northern

[ad_1] This column is an opinion by Françoise Baylis and Landon J. Getz. Baylis is University Research Professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax,

[ad_1] The Quebec government’s vision of a greener future will look very familiar to us residents of the present.  In

[ad_1] Hacking attacks launched by online criminals against the Canadian government are growing increasingly sophisticated, warns the head of Canada’s cyber security agency.

[ad_1] For many off-grid communities in the Northwest Territories, diesel is the lifeline that heats homes and powers businesses. Major

[ad_1] World-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall is joining forces with Manitoba Sen. Murray Sinclair to press Canada to adopt a more ambitious

[ad_1] The federal government is threatening to impose fines that could run to millions of dollars on private companies that violate Canadians’ privacy. Innovation Minister

[ad_1] SpaceX launched four astronauts to the International Space Station on Sunday, the first full-fledged taxi flight for NASA by

[ad_1] A Calgary online shopper is told his almost $2,000 drum set was lost in shipping and he’ll have to eat

[ad_1] Shell Canada will plant more than 800,000 trees in the interior of British Columbia next year, a project that the company hopes

[ad_1] Premier François Legault is set to outline his government’s long-awaited plan to tackle climate change this morning, after one of the

[ad_1] Hurricanes that make landfall are maintaining their strength longer because of climate change, a new study suggests, meaning such

[ad_1] The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic may have boosted failing public trust in science and scientists, a new survey

[ad_1] Much ink has been spilled about the problem of invasive species from rabbits to cane toads in Australia, but a

[ad_1] The federal government’s plan to phase out open-net salmon farms on the B.C. coast could result in different rules for

[ad_1] Dutch students have created a fully functioning electric car made entirely out of waste, including plastics fished out of

[ad_1] Achieving airline speeds in transportation at ground level is closer to reality with the first passenger test of the

[ad_1] Elon Musk’s SpaceX is poised to send a crew of four astronauts to the International Space Station on Saturday

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[ad_1] Wearing a mask is critical to reducing the spread of COVID-19, but rigorous tests conducted on behalf of CBC’s Marketplace

[ad_1] The N.W.T. government spent more than a quarter of a million dollars to shoot 36 wolves from a helicopter in

[ad_1] The U.S. Department of Commerce has backed down from its previous order for Chinese-owned video-sharing platform TikTok to sell

[ad_1] When scientists in Washington state destroyed the first nest of so-called murder hornets found in the U.S., close to the

[ad_1] Emissions of a potent greenhouse gas from Canada’s oilpatch are nearly twice as high as previously thought, says newly

[ad_1] Virgin Mobile says it will be substantially reducing the outstanding balance for an 80-year-old man from Amherstburg who is

[ad_1] Shell Canada is letting carbon-conscious customers get their two cents in for the environment while filling up at one

[ad_1] U.S. president-elect Joe Biden on Monday said a coronavirus vaccine approval process must be guided by science so the

[ad_1] A Toronto chemical engineering professor has won the $1 million Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal, the country’s top science

[ad_1] The significance of this year’s presidential election for U.S. climate policy came down to a basic difference between the two

[ad_1] Melanie Clapham has spent the last three years snapping images of grizzly bears at Knight Inlet, on the B.C.

[ad_1] A funding boost for a team of University of Manitoba researchers will cover the costs of sophisticated microscope camera technology

[ad_1] Walking into Hamilton’s Canadian Heritage Warplane Heritage Museum, Bob Middleton, 97, still has a spring in his step and

[ad_1] The Liberal government is promising to spend more than a billion dollars to connect most Canadians to high-speed internet

[ad_1] Richard Branson’s Virgin Hyperloop has completed the world’s first passenger ride on a super high-speed levitating pod system, the

[ad_1] A single “murder hornet” was found in Abbotsford, B.C., on Monday and residents and beekeepers are advised to keep

[ad_1] Justin Giesbrecht was jumping out of his truck to follow some deer into the bush when he saw a

[ad_1] The remnants of Hurricane Eta unleashed torrential rains and catastrophic flooding on Central America, killing at least 50 people and turning

[ad_1] During her annual cleanups along the shores of Lake Ontario, Rochelle Byrne has come across hundreds of plastic tampon applicators.

[ad_1] Animals across the Arctic are changing where and when they breed, migrate and forage in response to climate change,

[ad_1] Six years of recording and analyzing the sounds made by bats in P.E.I. National Park has revealed more biodiversity

[ad_1] This week astronauts in space and controllers on the ground celebrated twenty years of continuous occupation of the International

[ad_1] India’s space agency launched 10 satellites into Earth’s orbit on Saturday from its space station in southern Sriharikota Island, the

[ad_1] Officers at the Canada-U.S. Border between Stewart, B.C. and Hyder, Alaska had cause to paws last Monday, as an

[ad_1] A group of researchers and conservationists in eastern P.E.I. is working to restore Basin Head’s unique Irish moss by

[ad_1] One of Nova Scotia’s worst contaminated sites should be able to recover from decades of pulp mill pollution, according to

[ad_1] Read Story Transcript As Americans await the results of Tuesday’s federal election, experts say the U.S. needs a president

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[ad_1] New research has revealed that two small, tree-dwelling dinosaurs used bat-like wings to clumsily glide through the air long

[ad_1] After a relatively busy summer at his cafe and restaurant in Toronto’s Evergreen Brick Works, Brad Long started looking

[ad_1] Denmark’s prime minister said Wednesday that the government wants to cull all minks on Danish farms, to minimize the

[ad_1] For more than 13 years, astronomers have been trying to determine the source of extremely powerful radio bursts that

[ad_1] Cindy MacBride figured she’d never get her stolen bike back. Then an Ottawa police officer who had read her

[ad_1] The United States formally exited the Paris Agreement on Wednesday, fulfilling a years-long promise by President Donald Trump to

[ad_1] Talk about good camouflage! Scientists say they have found an elusive chameleon species that was last spotted in Madagascar

[ad_1] Caribou herds in Canada’s Rocky Mountains are now so precarious that Parks Canada is preparing a plan to round

[ad_1] Statistics Canada says domestic firms that invested in robots since the late 1990s have also expanded their human workforces,

[ad_1] New research has uncovered how remora — also known as suckerfish — are able to swim freely across the

[ad_1] Rather than letting Halloween pumpkins rot on the front porch, some people around Nova Scotia are suggesting creative ways to

[ad_1] Transport Canada says it is pleased with the results of an underwater acoustic glider used to help detect the endangered

[ad_1] The leaves have changed colour, the days are cooler, and you’re out for drive. But suddenly, as if out

[ad_1] A Calgary business that rents out chicken eggs so families can hatch them at home says the pandemic has put their

[ad_1] A non-recyclable hamster named Andy is safely home, after he escaped his new cage, hid in a cardboard box, and was discovered in a

[ad_1] There’s a surefire way to mildly annoy zoologist and University of Lethbridge professor Gail Michener, and it involves misrepresenting the

[ad_1] Humans produce a lot of garbage here on Earth. It turns out we produce a lot of it in

[ad_1] Some of the most remote communities in northern Ontario could have some of the fastest internet by the end

[ad_1] Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the COVID Alert app can now provide more precise information to people who are

[ad_1] Nature at its most gruesome can rival a horror movie. A perfect example is the disturbing way the parasitoid emerald

[ad_1] In light of the global COVID-19 pandemic, Canada’s biggest grocery store chains have increased their cleaning and disinfecting measures.

[ad_1] The era of the plastic shopping bag has come to a close in Nova Scotia. A provincewide ban that

[ad_1] It takes an experienced deep-water diver like Hamish Tweed to reach most of the glass sponge reefs. You have to

[ad_1] Halloween won’t be the same this year. Trick or treating will be minimal across much of the country, if it

[ad_1] Australian scientists found a detached coral reef on the Great Barrier Reef that exceeds the height of the Empire

[ad_1] There are just 356 North Atlantic right whales left in the world, according to a newly released estimate that

[ad_1] The real estate company behind some of Canada’s most popular shopping centres embedded cameras inside its digital information kiosks

[ad_1] In the RCMP’s search for a leak that ultimately led to the arrest of top intelligence official Cameron Ortis

[ad_1] Iran has begun construction at its Natanz nuclear facility, satellite images released Wednesday show, just as the U.N.’s nuclear

[ad_1] The chair of a group that brings together officials from Canada and the U.S. to help make ropeless fishing

[ad_1] The association representing hunters and trappers in northern Quebec Cree communities is turning to technology to help land users

[ad_1] The moon lacks oceans and lakes that are a hallmark of Earth, but scientists said on Monday lunar water

[ad_1] A Washington state entomologist said discovering a nest of Asian giant hornets in the backyard tree of a home in Blaine was

[ad_1] A small municipality in western Quebec is claiming a big victory against anonymous online defamation after unmasking a social media

[ad_1] Researchers from Canada and the U.S. are gathering virtually this week for an annual conference that focuses on an endangered

[ad_1] Plague outbreaks picked up speed between the 14th century and the 17th century, according to a new study out

[ad_1] It’s a beetle that can withstand bird pecks, animal stomps and even being rolled over by a Toyota Camry.

[ad_1] A new type of exterior paint and colour changing windows hold the promise of buildings that can cool themselves

[ad_1] Studying mycology just takes a microscope and a lot of patience. (D. F. McAlpine/N.B. Museum) A P.E.I. man has

[ad_1] Tim Hortons and Burger King have signed a deal with TerraCycle’s Loop program to test an option that would allow customers

[ad_1] U.S. officials said Thursday that Russian hackers have targeted the networks of dozens of state and local governments in

[ad_1] A driver who picked up what he thought was a dead bald eagle off a B.C. highway got quite

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[ad_1] Calvin Hoover will never know that it was his own distant relatives who helped police label him a murderer.