Ride-share company Uber and on-demand meal delivery service Postmates filed a lawsuit Monday to block a broad new California law aimed at giving wage and benefit protections to people who work as independent...

It may be time to bid goodbye to peat moss in the garden and in pots, according to gardener and soil tester Lee Reich, because the way it's harvested is...

Prince William is collaborating with a global alliance of groups to launch a prize geared toward fostering innovation to combat climate change and solve environment...

A recent rise in water levels on Lake Huron has municipal officials in Goderich, Ont., spending more than $1 million to protect the town's treatment plant for drinking...

Firefighters are being extra cautious when they work to cut people free from wrecked vehicles these days because of the dangers found in electric...

Documents obtained by CBC News show the curiosity and confusion shared by Canadian military officials after the 2016 launch of Pokemon Go, which was sending civilians onto Department of Defence property searching for "mythical digital...

A Toronto-based investment firm has signed a $1-billion deal to buy the Canadian space technology company behind Radarsat Earth-observation satellites and the Canadarm robotic mechanisms on the International Space...

As Australia battles wildfires that have razed more than 40,000 square kilometres across five states, volunteers are trying to save wild animals caught in the...

A Chinese scientist who set off an ethical debate with claims he had made the world's first genetically edited babies was sentenced Monday to three years in prison because of his research, state media...

On Jan. 1, Montreal's ban on horse-drawn carriages, known as calèches, goes into effect. Alison Northcott looks at what happens to the horses.

For about a year, an Ontario-based clean-technology company has been running a demonstration algae plant out of the sprawling St. Mary’s Cement factory site. Its founder believes algae can play a key role in reducing carbon...

A pair of virtual reality headsets at a hospice in Cornwall, Ont., is offering palliative care patients hope and a small escape from...

Despite ongoing calls from an Ontario hunting group to phase out deer farms — an industry that has contributed to the spread of chronic wasting disease (CWD) — some experts are doubtful it will curb...

One of Canada's foremost climate economists has developed a strategy that he is confident will work, but beware those who are deluding themselves - or politicians who are "faking...

Carbon Engineering's groundbreaking plant is one of many projects hoping to help in the fight against climate change by turning its main driver — carbon dioxide — into a useful product that can be profitably removed from the...

A proposed class action lawsuit has been filed against medical services company LifeLabs over a data breach that allowed hackers to gain access to the personal information of up to 15 million...

California's long tradition of advancing nation-leading legislation continues into the new year, with laws reining in the gig economy, boosting online privacy and discouraging shootings by police, among other potential...

Plastics are big business in Canada. A 2019 study of the industry found that annual sales are worth an estimated $35...

Mining lithium for batteries, plus the power source they're charged from, affects an EV’s impact on the...

A U.S. astronaut set a record Saturday for the longest single space flight by a woman, breaking the old mark of 288 days with about two months left in her...

A mysterious structure on a Cape Sable Island beach in southwest Nova Scotia is revealing its secrets, thanks to the actions of dedicated locals and a young...

As SpaceX asks to launch 30,000 more Starlink satellites in its goal to provide internet service to all parts of the world, some astronomers are concerned that all the light trails they leave behind will change how we see the night...

Bird species may be going extinct up to six times faster than previously thought, but the numbers would be much worse without conservation efforts over the last three decades, according to new research from a B.C....

A fossil found in Cape Breton by Carleton University researchers has unearthed evidence of the earliest known example of parental care.