In a gripping underwater rescue, Spanish divers freed a 12-metre long humpback whale that became entangled in an illegal drift net off the Balearic island of...

Mexican experts said Monday that 35 per cent more monarch butterflies arrived this year to spend the winter in mountaintop forests, compared to the previous...

Both Canadian and U.S. forecasters are forecasting yet another active 2022 hurricane season, with the total number of storms predicted to be above...

The devastating heat wave that has baked India and Pakistan in recent months was made more likely due to climate change, according to a study by an international group of scientists released on Monday. This, they say, is a glimpse of what the future holds for the...

The proposed energy corridor to connect the four Atlantic provinces to hydroelectricity from Quebec and Labrador is important for helping the region reach zero carbon emissions, but the project isn't enough, a new study...

Still only owlets when they were brought to the Calgary Zoo last summer, 20 burrowing owls have since been returned to the wild in southeastern...

Bob McDonald's blog: Researchers analyze how frequent future rocket launches could significantly impact the Earth's...

World Bee Day is a chance to celebrate the hard work bees do to pollinate our plants and the work that's been done to protect them, but it's also an opportunity to remind the public how much more there's left to do to prevent them from disappearing...

Cash rebate programs for electric cars, trucks and SUVs should be expanded to include power-assisted bicycles, say sustainability and mobility...

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at some of the accounting around oilsands emissions and examine the effect a bee shortage is having on Canadian berry farmers.

An Atlantic Canadian biotechnology seafood company says harvest levels have plunged at the southern range of the cold-water seaweed it uses as raw material. Meanwhile, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans is being urged to do more research on lobster and climate...

Boeing's new Starliner capsule was set for launch on Thursday on a do-over uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station, aiming to deliver the company a much-needed success after two years of delays and costly engineering...

COVID-19 pandemic restrictions kept the doors of the Canadian High Arctic Research Station in Cambridge Bay largely closed to the public and researchers for more than a year, but the station is throwing those doors open once...

Environmentalists say they're motivated to search for rare lichens in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley because they see it as a way to provide added protection for parts of the woods they believe need a break from logging or should not be subject to cutting in the first...

The world's oceans grew to their warmest and most acidic levels on record last year, the World Meteorological Organization said on Wednesday, as United Nations officials warned that war in Ukraine threatened global climate...

The Mars InSight lander is losing power and is headed for a dusty demise, NASA...

A Canadian research centre based in Halifax is promoting an ambitious observation system for the North Atlantic that would allow nations to invest in ocean observation as a...

A senior Defence Department intelligence official said on Tuesday the Pentagon is committed to determining the origins of what the government calls "unidentified aerial phenomena" in the first public congressional hearing in more than 50 years on what are commonly known as...

A total lunar eclipse provided a spectacular celestial show as it unfolded Sunday night into early...

Researchers say a rock formation in the Inuvialuit region could explain how the mineral jarosite forms in Martian environments, and explain how Mars may be more habitable than previously...

Dawson Creek, B.C., researcher Jinxz Pollard-Flamand has identified two types of trichoderma that protect grapevines from trunk disease, a discovery that could be a game changer for grape growers and winemakers in...

The Canada goose, introduced into New Brunswick in the 1990s, has exploded in numbers and loves to live in popular recreational...

Bob McDonald's blog: Human eyes are really good at spotting subtle changes on a comet's surface from various...

Ara Mirzaian has fitted braces for everyone from Paralympians to children with scoliosis. But Msituni was a patient like none other — a newborn...