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- Polytechnique Montreal's 'White Rose' winner encourages female-led fight against climate change
- UN resolution calling on ships to use cleaner fuel in Arctic a good first step to cut emissions, experts say
- Welcome to the new tradition of Christmas tree shortages
- A Montreal suburb halted road construction to protect an endangered frog, but advocates want damage undone
- Virus that causes COVID-19 found in Quebec deer
- Rare white sperm whale — like Moby Dick — captured on video
- Oil and gas industry must pay for abandoned well cleanup, new Alberta rules say
- Daily heat records smashed across B.C. as subtropical winds whip through region
- McMaster professor removed from Canada 150 Chairs website, funding halted after investigation
- 570-million-year-old fossils discovered in St. John's. Think you can find more?
- Most Canadian aquaculture fisheries meet new U.S. standard for wildlife protection
- Warmest fall on record for many Kivalliq communities set to break next week as winds shift
- Injectable gels could help repair heart tissue and spinal cord injuries
- International Space Station swerves to dodge space junk
- How Indigenous pipeline resistance keeps emissions in the ground
- 3 privately owned, commercial space stations get NASA funding
- Concerns raised by salmon group over discoveries of farmed fish in East Coast rivers
- N.L. wants to double oil production by 2030. But could demand soon dry up?
- Fish farm firm Cermaq Canada fined $500,000 for B.C. diesel spill
- Two students at Polytechnique Montréal reflect on how the tragedy shaped their paths
- N.W.T. peatlands store 24 billion tonnes of carbon and are worth protecting, experts say
- Meet the latest threat to Ontario's forests — and it's lurking just off shore
- Rain after volcanic eruption hinders Indonesia's rescue efforts as death toll rises
- Total solar eclipse brings darkness to Antarctic summer
- Canada's first homegrown COVID-19 vaccine shows high efficacy
- An Ontario lab is helping to make medals from a sunken Pearl Harbor battleship
- Archaeologist whose research in Yukon made waves in science world remembered
- Coastal GasLink failed to fix nearly 2 dozen environmental violations along pipeline route, B.C. officials say
- What is the N.W.T. doing to protect its 'globally significant' peatlands?
- DFO closely monitoring North Atlantic right whales off Newfoundland
- SEC probing Tesla after whistleblower alleges company hid solar panel fire risk
- How to catch your once-in-a-lifetime look at Comet Leonard
- Retreating glaciers could create new salmon habitat, B.C. study shows
- Climate change could cost billions in additional building maintenance: report
- Top-emitting Alberta oilsands site got government relief from pollution payments, Reuters reports
- Tracking omicron: Canadian scientists race to understand new variant
- Chinese rover investigates 'cube' on far side of the moon
- Japanese fashion tycoon blasts off for International Space Station
- Conservationist worried about copycats as wolf poisonings in Oregon go unsolved
- What are the best DayZ servers?
- Mammoths and North American horses vanished later than previously thought: researchers
- Heavy crude now makes up about half of N.L.'s production
- How to catch the Geminids, the strongest meteor shower of the year
- Why building more roads has environmental effects and won't ease gridlock in the long run
- UBC team creates stretchy, washable battery — and new possibilities for wearable tech
- B.C. floods caused at least $450M in damage, insurance bureau says
- 'Hut' on the moon is the latest imagined alien artifact
- Blue Origin spacecraft carries TV host, daughter of 1st U.S. astronaut to space
- Don't Look Up is a disaster movie for the climate change times
- Elon Musk named Time Magazine's Person of the Year
- Thousands without heat, water after U.S. tornadoes kill dozens
- Big earthquakes are rare in Alberta, but small ones happen often — even if you don't feel them
- Quebec entrepreneur, 93, donates cherished island after protecting it from city sprawl
- Why an Operation Warp Speed-like effort may be needed for a universal 'holy grail' vaccine
- Former space agency engineer charged by Mounties claimed to have overseen major Canadian projects
- 38 C temperature in Siberia smashed Arctic heat record, UN agency confirms
- 'Warrior' sturgeon displaced by B.C. floods rescued from pump station
- Canada's energy regulator criticized for not modelling a net-zero future
- Record highs, rain and beaver damage noted in 'alarming' Arctic report card
- Marineland Canada says site for planned whale refuge in Nova Scotia is too polluted
- Prairie drought drives Canada's canola, wheat production down more than 35%: StatsCan
- B.C. couple gifts property with pristine grizzly habitat to conservation group
- Increasing number of snowy owls getting injured
- How does Omicron spread so fast? Virus may now be multiplying 70 times quicker in airways
- Canadian zoo accreditation body bans elephant rides. Advocate says change is overdue
- For the 1st time, a spacecraft has 'touched' the sun, NASA confirms
- 10 weather stories that made 2021 a year like no other
- Red-nose rage: Aggressive deer keep attacking this Rudolph decoration
- High-tech astronaut sleeping bag may alleviate health problems on long journeys to Mars
- This is the 1st millipede ever discovered that actually has more than 1,000 legs
- Climate change could mean some Arctic animals will be more vulnerable to disease spread by insects: researcher
- Manchin says he won't back Biden's spending bill that contains major trade irritant with Canada
- Why one senator just blew up Joe Biden's presidential plans
- How a northern Ontario community is rallying in search of escaped bison
- B.C. Green Party leader pushing for more transparency, collaboration and climate-framed policy in 2022
- Canada needs to build millions — not thousands — of EV charging stations, industry group says
- Amazingly well-preserved fossil egg shows link between dinosaurs and birds
- Dwindling Bathurst caribou herd showing signs of 'stabilization', says N.W.T. wildlife manager
- Feds moving to ban plastic straws, bags by end of 2022: Guilbeault
- Smell something funky? UBC researchers want to borrow your nose
- Heat domes, wildfires and flooding: Get prepared now for the next emergency, experts say
- Move over Hubble: Why the James Webb Space Telescope is such a big deal
- Conservationists work to save dwindling population of bur oak trees
- A former geologist imports a popular Chinese model to grow veggies year-round in Alberta's harsh climate
- Fossilized tree discovered at N.S. cliff on display at Royal Ontario Museum
- Meet the Coquitlam sisters who are trying to protect the environment one watercolour painting at a time
- Edward O. Wilson, biologist referred to as 'Darwin's natural heir,' dead at 92
- Why do snowflakes have 6 points? A Halifax expert breaks down the science of snow
- Looking back at a booming year in space
- Latest extreme cold warnings another hit for B.C. farmers facing brunt of climate change impacts
- How an Ottawa company diverts food waste from landfills
- From tree maintenance to simple hardware store upgrades, here's what you can do to prepare for climate change
- China says its space station had to dodge a collision with Elon Musk's Starlink satellites
- Why the Prairies get more sun than the rest of Canada
- Please do look up: Here's what to look forward to in space for 2022
- New citizen-science project aims to track important avian migratory routes in Nova Scotia
- New documentary shines light on 'last of the right whales'
- Black vulture, rarely spotted in Canada, rescued in New Brunswick
- Deadly floods left this German town in tatters. Now, it's trying to climate-proof itself
- Israel works to contain avian flu outbreak as thousands of migrating cranes die
- How scientists know the New Year's Day boom over Pittsburgh was an exploding meteor
- B.C.'s cold snap could have positive effects going into spring, experts say
- Hundreds of birds die at St. John's exhibition farm in avian flu tragedy
- Climate fiction needs to challenge and inspire, say these Canadian authors
- The COVID-19 testing system isn't working anymore. Could sewage surveillance plug the gap?
- Employee injured by jaguar at Greater Vancouver Zoo
- Dog killed by pack of wolves in Fort Smith, N.W.T.
- Horse death ignites discussion over consumer fireworks in Nova Scotia
- How the James Webb Space Telescope is so different from Hubble
- Indigenous communities along Atlantic coast at risk from rising sea levels
- Scientists can detect animal species by vacuuming their DNA out of the air
- 2021 was Earth's 5th-hottest year on record, according to European Union scientists
- Huge 'sea dragon' fossil found in English water reservoir
- Watch a goldfish drive a car toward a target to earn treats
- This Ontario cat came back — after 12 years on the lam
- Sask. researcher finds alternative fuel in province's agricultural leftovers
- 'A quest for wisdom': How two-eyed seeing mixes Indigenous knowledge and Western science in N.S.
- U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient in medical first
- High gas prices, oilpatch labour crunch, pipeline friction: The year ahead in energy
- How climate change led one Perth baker to sell smaller loaves
- Power pole's incredible journey a sobering reminder of B.C.'s devastating floods
- Canada will need more electricity to hit net-zero: IEA report
- Scientists spot the world's deepest squid roaming more than 6 km below surface
- Cracks in foundation led to wind turbine's collapse, 49 others also at risk
- How efficient is your house? Map project plans to publish ratings for all Calgary, Edmonton homes
- Watch an endangered tiger cub take its 1st steps outdoors
- Authorities allowed Ontario couple to 'voluntarily relocate' 4 lions that killed and ate tiger
- Anemia could be a challenge for astronauts, new Canadian study suggests
- Plants can't adapt to climate change when seed-dispersing animals are lost
- Microplastics accumulating in rivers and in the air but solutions are available
- As cities ban natural gas to cut emissions, Ontario is expanding its gas network
- Investigators puzzled by large numbers of sick, dead crows in Charlottetown
- Ash from volcano poses health concern after massive Tonga eruption
- Cougars moving into Manitoba slowly but surely, zoologist says
- Permafrost threatening infrastructure in Arctic
- 'People need to get their hands dirty': Newfoundland diver cleans ocean floor, one discarded tire at a time
- 5 things you can do right now to help save the planet
- 30,000 shipments of nuclear waste would move through Ontario cities, farmland under draft plan
- Fish swim freely for 1st time in 106 years after defunct dam in Norway dismantled
- 'Everything about the Gulf of St. Lawrence was warmer in 2021': federal scientist
- Calgary clean energy tech accelerator gets $3M from feds
- Scientists want Ottawa to scrap carbon capture tax credit
- Industrial development giving coyotes an edge in wolverine habitat, new study shows
- This coral reef has only just been discovered, and it's undamaged by climate change
- Storied Canadian science vessel CCGS Hudson has reached the end of the line
- Doomsday Clock remains at 100 seconds to midnight amid climate change, cybersecurity and pandemic
- Roberta Bondar reflects on spaceflight, nature and the cake she almost didn't have
- Geothermal heating co-op shares warmth among Montreal neighbours
- This skull comes from what may be the oldest moose on record on Isle Royale, Mich.
- How a sailboat helped Canada drop ocean sensors in the remote south Atlantic to study climate change
- This woman can't recognize her own daughter's face, but technology is helping her
- Slush cannons, ice probes among ideas to extend Rideau Canal skating season
- Silverdaisy watershed a step closer to protection, premier says, after company surrenders mining rights
- B.C. study links low river flows with lower chinook salmon productivity
- From sun dogs to snowpack, we answer some of your weather questions
- Fort Frances was the first Ontario town to ban single-use plastics. So how'd it go?
- Canada's nuclear waste body ousted liaison for being 'too much on the side of the community,' lawsuit claims
- DFO scientists' union says members' work in N.L. undermined by industry and political interference
- From trash to treasure: How a 24-year-old entrepreneur is bringing worn out antiques back to life
- 'Tantalizing' organics discovered on Mars but still no proof of life
- Computer simulations give avalanche forecasters deeper insight, says researcher
- Fossils from Bacon Cove could rewrite history of squid, octopus
- Membertou wants to revive seal hunt that's been put on ice
- Glowing meteor lights up northern B.C. sky
- 'Incredibly bright' lunar halo photographed in Inuvik, N.W.T.
- New monkey species discovered in Myanmar
- Meet Methuselah, the oldest living aquarium fish
- Save a building, fight climate change
- B.C. glaciers melting 7 times faster in past decade than previous years, UNBC study finds
- Rare 'downburst' that wiped out swathes of N.W.T. forest last summer could be harbinger of future storms
- Interior Fraser steelhead face extinction, fishery and conservation groups warn
- Canadian university races former Chinese partner to make a COVID-19 booster
- Thousands of animals were drowned in B.C. floods. Cleaning them up is an 'unprecedented' challenge
- Lab hits milestone on long road to fusion power
- Farmers skeptical of wind turbines, but more accepting of certain proposals, U of A study shows
- Gatineau students make their own filters to help improve air quality
- As Canada tackles building emissions, what's a natural gas utility to do?
- Meet the man who gave away his seat on a private trip to space
- London's Depave Paradise to turn more asphalt to green space this spring
- Our space junk issue might be reaching the moon
- Gas stoves leak methane even while off, boosting climate change
- Star releasing huge bursts of energy may be 1st of its kind ever discovered
- A revolution in science: 5 ways to contribute to climate change research with your phone
- Bans on fossil fuel heating in new homes gain steam as world aims for net-zero emissions
- Indigenous coalition goes head-to-head against oil giants to build Alberta carbon capture complex
- Smoke detectors have a life expectancy. A Nova Scotia family is sounding the alarm
- They fought a zoo — Ontario towns grapple with exotic animal owner
- Ocean warming is changing N.B.'s fishing grounds. Will fishermen adapt?
- Researchers mystified after Canada goose tagged in B.C. is spotted almost 3,000 km away in Chicago
- Scientists list most likely places on Earth to discover thousands of new tree species
- Long-term Statistics Canada research shows cities across country losing green space
- First Nation wants Ottawa to help clean up plastic waste left behind by 27-year boil water advisory
- Trojan asteroid has been hitchhiking in Earth's orbit
- Researchers heading to N.B. farms to quantify how sustainable practices can pay off
- B.C.'s groundhogs are too sleepy to predict the end of winter, so this stuffed animal will do the job
- Difficult to prove Beijing’s claims about being the greenest Olympics
- Why the reversal of a decades-old coal policy sparked controversy in Alberta
- We could be a wing-beat closer to machines that fly like birds — with flapping wings
- Forest industry says expanded maple production could strain hardwood supply
- Researchers race to study probiotic before white nose syndrome spreads to B.C. bats
- The Labrador Sea keeps the world's oceans alive. Scientists are now closer to understanding how
- Will backfilling beach curb erosion in Quebec's Magdalen Islands?
- Automotive right-to-repair bill introduced by Windsor West MP
- Metrolinx cuts down trees in 'ecologically significant' ravine despite local, city council outcry
- Big companies' climate pledges aren't as green as they look, report finds
- How gold nanoparticles can be used to quickly test drinking water for bacteria
- Our oceans are hotter than ever. Scientists say they worry about what that means for our future
- As rabies pops up in the North again this year, researchers look to predict future outbreaks
- Newly launched SpaceX satellites falling out of orbit after solar storm
- Ottawa rejection likely final blow for Quebec LNG plant
- Nature is healing: Doctors in B.C., other provinces can prescribe Parks Canada passes to patients
- Canada's Olympic-wear provider given 'coal' medal for environmentally unfriendly manufacturing process
- It sounded like a bowling ball crashed into his roof, but the noise came from underground
- How Canadian recycling could be fuelling pollution in India
- Declines in moose population a concern for Quebec Cree
- Supercomputer helps Canadian researcher uncover thousands of viruses that could cause human diseases
- How some energy efficiency incentives slow climate action
- Elon Musk says 36-storey Starship could see 1st launch in March
- Cockatoos learn to combine tools to get treats
- European scientists demonstrate fusion energy record
- Koalas declared endangered in eastern Australia
- Feeling amorous after a romantic dinner? At least in flies, the feeling may come from the gut
- Renewable natural gas could help slow climate change, but by how much?
- Facebook to begin laying cable through fishing grounds off Nova Scotia
- UBC researchers create a fabric coating that kills COVID-19, E. coli
- Megadrought worsens to driest in at least 1,200 years in western U.S.
- Newfoundland oil spill a major concern for wildlife, says seabird biologist
- Billionaire who flew on 1st private SpaceX mission heading to space once again
- Protester says logging should be cancelled after discovery of species at risk
- Pacific Salmon Treaty failing to address Alaskan harvest of struggling B.C. stocks, advocates say
- Ford government eyes 'green steel' as way to catch up on cutting carbon emissions
- Rabid foxes found in two Nunavut communities
- Calgary non-profit that diverts products from landfill says demand up, donations down
- Millions told to stay home as U.K. braces for hurricane-force winds
- Natural measures helping protect sacred Mi'kmaw island damaged in storms
- Sask. advocates talk peat moss protection with feds, request intervention
- Finding Shackleton's ship in Antarctica is a deeper challenge than the Franklin discovery
- Photo of B.C. sturgeon with smaller sturgeon in mouth highlights Fraser River food supply concerns
- Inflation biting into your grocery bill? Follow the food from farm to fork to see why
- Local states of emergency help communities cope with disasters. Here's how they work
- Using animals to explore the 'rather wondrous' sensory abilities of humans
- Brick-sized opal sells for nearly $183K at Alaska auction
- B.C. budget to focus on climate change, including year-round wildfire service, minister says
- Black scientists, community leaders want Black youth 'to see possibility' in STEM
- Huge flying reptile sets Jurassic record
- Catastrophic wildfires could increase 50% by 2100, UN report says
- Snowy winter provides blast of hope in some parts of drought-stricken Prairies
- Beehive heists are on the rise, prompting beekeepers to use GPS in their own sting operations
- Fossil clues paint vivid picture of dinosaurs' doomsday
- Flood-damaged B.C. Interior community demolishes homes to mitigate extreme weather impacts
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