Primitive primates living on Ellesmere Island didn't have to deal with extreme cold, but would have had to adapt to the 6 months of darkness that falls the Arctic every...

Bob McDonald's blog: NASA and DARPA are beginning development of a new fission rocket which will have to get over a high bar of safety. And it won't be our first experience with nuclear power in...

India will receive 12 cheetahs from South Africa next month that will join eight others it received from Namibia in September as part of an ambitious plan to reintroduce the cats in the country after 70...

As part of the Canadian Space Agency's Deep Space Food Challenge, students at the University of Guelph showcased how they would grow food in...

Five people have been killed in avalanches across B.C. in the past month, including experienced skiiers and brothers on a guided heli-skiing trip in B.C.'s Interior. Experts have an explanation for what's making this season so deadly — and they say it started months...

A former teacher found a mammoth bone west of Edmonton last year. A local museum has accepted the specimen as a...

Instead of designing buildings, Esha Munshi puts her aesthetic skills to use by collecting, photographing, measuring and cataloguing the wings and feathers of India's more than 1,300 bird...

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at how grocery story refrigerants are contributing to global warming and how air pollution is changing our...

Corrie and Jason Adamson found a massive egg on their farm almost two weeks ago. Today they decided to crack the egg, and inside they found a surprise. A second...

Historically, fermentation was used to extend the shelf life of food. Now, it’s being harnessed to produce more nutritious food, in a more environmentally friendly...

The spread of COVID-19 misinformation in Canada cost at least 2,800 lives and $300 million in hospital expenses over nine months of the pandemic, according to estimates in a new report out...

A fungus that is responsible for the deaths of millions of bats has arrived in Alberta. The fungus causes white-nose syndrome in bats, a disease that interrupts a bat's winter hibernation, prompting the animal to waste its energy and die of starvation. How did we get...

The number of monarchs that have survived the migration to Mexico is estimated to have fallen to near-record lows this winter. But experts say these numbers don't mean much on their own, as reporting on year-to-year changes doesn't give an accurate representation of the health of the...

An asteroid the size of a delivery truck will whip past Earth on Thursday night, one of the closest such encounters ever...

Our bodies have an entire system that uses similar compounds to those found in...

The Porcupine caribou herd is one of the biggest in the world. A three-day gathering organized by the Gwich'in Tribal Council in Fort McPherson, N.W.T., invited people to find ways to keep it that...

The Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) report claims there is no "statistically significant association" between sea lice infestations among wild juvenile Chum and Pink salmon and the fish farms they migrate past along the B.C....

Exposure to diesel exhaust for just two hours led to changes in brain function connectivity, a measure of how different regions of the brain interact with each other, according to one of the...

The Centre for Natural Hazards Research at Simon Fraser University has launched a survey to determine just how much B.C. residents know and don't know about volcano hazards to help inform future risk reduction...

A building material used in Manitoba for nearly 200 years, from trading forts to the modern-day architecture of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, now has international recognition on par with Carrara marble used in ancient...

A man who dug protected fossilized dinosaur footprints from a protected area in northern B.C. has been fined and sentenced to nearly a month in...

The Hein Lab is working on new technology they say can identify drug concentrations under five per cent, which is often the case for opioids. The device comes as the province is set to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of illicit...

A field survey in 2022 shows that the hairy braya, an endangered plant only known to grow in the N.W.T., has a bigger range than previously thought. A botanist says the population estimate has doubled to between 25,000 and 50,000 plants on a remote northern...

Birders from across the region have been flocking to Green Bay in Lunenburg County to see the rare gray-crowned rosy...