Every winter, millions of Canadians head down to the Caribbean. This year, however, tourists may have noticed something not-so-pleasant awaiting them on the beach: stinky, brown sargassum. What is it, and should you be...

Bob McDonald's blog: A new simulation video produced by NASA and the ESA shows off the planetary features that make scientists believe the Red Planet's Jezero Crater was a lake billions of years...

Community-oriented historian David Rondeau says it is an important discovery, as it shows humans were in the area about a thousand years earlier than was previously...

About two dozen students at Saskatchewan Polytech have worked together to build hovercrafts over a month, and got a chance to test their abilities this...

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at the carbon capture potential of Canada's grasslands and growing concern about the overlap of pension funds and oil and gas companies.

A new study out of Washington state has found that inbreeding depression, which is the reduced survival and fertility of offspring that are a product of inbreeding, is preventing the southern resident killer whale population from...

Scientists have long known that beetles can survive in extremely dry conditions — thanks to their unusual ability to suck water from the air through their rear ends. Now they know how they do...

Nearly 200 years after Ludwig van Beethoven's death, researchers pulled DNA from strands of his hair, searching for clues about the health problems and hearing loss that plagued him. Here's what they...

A new study from Atlantic Canada indicates lobster may be able to adapt to warming ocean temperatures. The results were presented at a meeting organized by a Nova Scotia non-profit group that helps co-ordinate collaborative research on Atlantic...

A dietician and food manager with Nunatsiavut is one of the jury members on the Canadian Space Agency's Deep Space Food challenge, and she hopes the eventual winning idea will be used in the...

Four people were treated at a hospital earlier this month after they were attacked by a great horned owl at Killarney Provincial Park, south of Sudbury,...

A magnitude 6.5 earthquake rattled much of Pakistan and Afghanistan on Tuesday, sending panicked residents fleeing from homes and offices and frightening people even in remote villages. At least nine people...

According to a local weather expert, Calgarians may have to wait some time to feel the effects of what many consider to be spring...

Dieter Cazon, the director of lands and resources for Łı́ı́dlı̨ı̨ Kų́ę́ First Nation, expects May and June will be big construction months at Scotty Creek Research Station. The station was almost completely destroyed by an unusually late-season wildfire in...

As we edge ever closer toward that 1.5 C, it may leave one with a sense of defeat, of helplessness, that we have failed and that we might as well give up. But that shouldn’t be the...

Michelle Saunders and Carla Pamak are the first Nunatsiavut members aboard the Canadian Coast Guard ship Amundsen for its annual research expedition through the Labrador Sea. Their cultural knowledge comes in handy when a rough day at sea causes the ship to seek refuge in Hebron, a former Inuit...

The arrival of artificial intelligence software is both intriguing and alarming many about how the technology will shape our lives. So whose job is it to get the most out these systems? Enter the growing field of prompt...

Scientists found evidence of active volcanoes on Venus by using new technology to examine old images of our next-door...

This is the first time scientists used human skeletons to provide insight about the origins of horse riding. Horseback riding allowed people to carry more and travel farther than ever...

Two directors tell the story of some of Canada’s last remaining old-growth forests, and the people trying to protect...

Despite mounting pressure from Canadians who want their money to stop supporting oil and gas, the majority of the country’s largest pension fund managers continue to invest in that sector — and are led by individuals with close ties to fossil fuel...

Since island apple snails invaded the Florida Everglades, an endangered species of bird known as snail kites has bounced back from the threat of...

Researchers have identified 12 fossil fuel reserves in Canada – called “carbon bombs” – that would each release a billion tonnes or more of carbon into the atmosphere if their resources were extracted and burned. This would be catastrophic for the world’s efforts to slow rising global temperatures, the authors...

Potholes cost Canadians $3 billion in vehicle repairs each year, and without action, climate change will only make that worse. Fortunately, engineers have been working to develop better, longer-lasting and more sustainable materials, with innovations like self-healing asphalt and...