Amid increased industrial activity on Alaska's North Slope, a new study calls into question methods of measuring the polar bear presence in the...

A new baling machine is helping a Yukon recycling program deal with mountains of unwanted clothes and other...

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland insists a robust climate change plan can live alongside a thriving energy sector. But while the debate has become mired in blame-tossing, businesses are calling for less carping and more...

After previously denying they had used a controversial facial-recognition app that harvested billions of personal photos from social media, Calgary police now say some officers did, in fact, use the Clearview AI...

Researchers at McMaster University have developed a set of "fish hooks" capable of catching the new coronavirus and quickly released it to the international community in hopes of helping health scientists determine how it's...

Researchers were able to track three attempts at cloud seeding from start to finish to measure how much snow was...

Bob McDonald's science blog

In the midst of the COVID-19 epidemic in China, the conditions for an unprecedented climate experiment have emerged. Researchers can measure in real time what happens to carbon emissions when one of the world's largest economies is suddenly stalled. The results are "absolutely...

For the first time, scientists have discovered something they didn’t think existed -- an animal that can’t breathe oxygen — and obviously doesn’t need...

The RCMP has for the first time acknowledged using controversial facial recognition technology that has raised privacy concerns, saying it was used in the Mounties' efforts to crack down on online child sexual...

Astronomers have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the universe. Scientists reported Thursday that the blast came from a super-massive black hole in a cluster of galaxies 390 million light-years...

Seventeen-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg responded Saturday to a widely-condemned sexually graphic illustration posted on...

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we examine the ethical ramifications of geoengineering and collect reader feedback on zero-waste grocery shopping.

Alphabet's proposed "smart" city development in Toronto is facing fresh questions over the project's data-gathering technology from a panel advising the Canadian government-mandated body in charge of getting it...

Earth has a tiny new companion in its journey around the sun — at least for...

Red pandas, the bushy-tailed and russet-furred bamboo munchers that dwell in Asian high forests, are not a single species but rather two distinct ones, according to the most comprehensive genetic study to date on these endangered...

In the 1950s, a Japanese cat known as “717” helped solve the mystery of a mass poisoning in Minamata, Japan. Almost 70 years later, a Canadian researcher and her co-authors have used brain tissue from the same cat to solve a mystery of toxicology that could eventually help save...

It appears that the hopes of astronomers who wanted a nearby star to explode have been dashed. After weeks of unprecedented dimming, Betelgeuse — a star in the constellation Orion — is beginning to brighten...

Academic freedom is at the heart of a court case between a University of Regina professor and her...

Michael Winsor saw first-hand one effect of plastic pollution while taking pictures of birds at Quidi Vidi...

The country's top aviation officials said Canada will conduct their own flight tests to examine whether the grounded Boeing 737 Max fleet is safe to fly after two deadly...

We've been hearing different numbers on the size of Alberta's oilsands emissions. Here's what's behind the...

Western University's Institute for Earth and Space Exploration has received a multi-million dollar grant to develop an integrated vision system for rovers in...

Archaeologists are using drones and laser technology to create digital replicas of historic sites on Herschel Island, a 116 square kilometre island off the Yukon coast in the Beaufort...