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Arctic sea ice shrinks to 2nd lowest level in 4 decades
Warming in the Arctic shrank the ice covering the polar ocean this year to its second-lowest extent in four decades, scientists announced Monday, yet another sign of how climate change is rapidly transforming the...
Microsoft buys owner of game studio Bethesda for $7.5B to boost Xbox with titles like Doom, Fallout
Microsoft Corp. said on Monday it would acquire ZeniMax Media for $7.5 billion in cash, strengthening its Xbox video game offering with the studio behind titles such as Fallout and the Doom...
Mystery of hundreds of elephant deaths in Botswana solved
The sudden deaths of some 330 elephants in northwestern Botswana earlier this year may have occurred because they drank water contaminated by toxic blue-green algae, the government announced...
World's richest 1% drive climate-heating emissions
Prone to frequent flying, a passion for SUVs and big spending, the richest one per cent of the world's population produced twice as many planet-heating emissions as the poorest half of humanity over the last quarter-century, researchers said on...
Moose Jaw, Sask., family shocked after cougar spotted on doorstep
A man in Moose Jaw got a surprise early Monday morning after a doorbell camera recorded a cougar walking across his front...
SFU ransomware attack exposed data from 250,000 accounts, documents show
A ransomware attack last spring at Simon Fraser University compromised the personal information of about 250,000 students, faculty and alumni, documents...
Alberta could lead Canada in wind and solar power by 2025, expert says
Growth in Alberta's renewable energy sector should continue to trend upwards, experts say, with one forecast expecting that a surge of projects could have the province poised to lead the nation in utility-scale wind and solar capacity as early as...
Liberals say a new climate plan is still in the works despite pandemic
Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says he doesn’t know why it was suggested recently that the Liberal government had shelved a green recovery plan ahead of Wednesday's throne speech. But he says he is working on an “ambitious” climate plan — just as the Liberals promised during last year’s...