Worried about the "polar coaster" forecast by the Farmers' Almanac? Don't fret: Forecasting months ahead reduces accuracy and we still have fall to...

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's account has gotten hacked, and whoever broke in sent racist and vulgar tweets to his 4.2 million...

The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society wants the federal government to pay more attention to protecting the country's biodiversity — a goal it says dovetails with existing efforts to combat climate...

The largest study of its kind found new evidence that genes contribute to same-sex sexual behaviour, but it echoes research that says there are no specific genes that make people...

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at what ordinary people can do to reduce wildfires in the Amazon rainforest, and examine the biggest producers of wind power...

The federal and British Columbia governments want to power the production of the natural gas industry in the province using...

The wildfires ripping through the rainforest in the heart of South America have heightened the existing threats faced by the Amazon's Indigenous Peoples, including tribes that exist in isolation from the outside world, according to...

The Trump administration proposed a rollback of Obama-era limits on emissions of methane at oil and gas operations, which would relax standards on one of the main pollutants scientists link to climate...

The federal Liberal government will offer the Ktunaxa First Nation more than $16 million to protect the Jumbo Valley in southeast B.C., the CBC has...

Millions of Canadians suffer from seasonal allergies, and many city dwellers across the country have noticed their symptoms worsening in recent years. Experts believe climate change is largely to...

Social media platform previously removed all vaccine-related content to protect users from misinformation and is now allowing posts only from 'reliable' health...

Marriott International, the world's largest hotel chain, said Wednesday it will eliminate small plastic bottles of shampoo, conditioner and bath gel from its hotel rooms worldwide by December...

A fossil from Ethiopia is letting scientists look millions of years into our evolutionary history — and they see a face peering...

Apple is apologizing for allowing outsiders to listen to snippets of people's recorded conversations with its digital assistant Siri, a practice that undermined its attempts to position itself as a trusted steward of...

SpaceX has made another leap in its plans to head to Mars, with another successful test of its Starhopper...

A 16-year-old Swedish climate activist has crossed the Atlantic on a zero-emissions sailboat to attend a conference on global...

The privacy commissioner has launched an investigation into the Canadian Border Services Agency after the licence plate reader system it uses was targeted in a malicious cyberattack in the...

Global attention has been focused on fires burning across the Brazilian Amazon, but neighbouring Bolivia is battling its own vast blazes, which have charred an area nearly as extensive as the nation of...

It's a stunning picture: a raft of pumice the size of a city floating along the Pacific Ocean. But it's not the solution for the dead and dying coral of the world's reefs, as some have...

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro says Brazil will only accept an offer of international aid to fight Amazon fires if French leader Emmanuel Macron retracts comments that he finds...

Conservation biologist Brett Favaro decided to plan a family vacation around a work trip, using his family's electric vehicle to travel between St. John's and Quebec...

Chocolate messes with cannabis potency testing, chemists...

If the number of severe forest fires continues to increase as a result of climate change, then the boreal forest’s ability to store carbon is in jeopardy, according to an international team of...

Russia's state weather and environment monitoring agency on Monday released new details about a brief spike in radioactivity following a mysterious explosion at the navy's testing range that has been surrounded by secrecy and fuelled fears of increased radiation...