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7 articles from CBC - Technology & Science News
Is it possible to make a sustainable smartphone?
In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at Fairphone, who claim to make a sustainable smartphone, as well as the efforts to repurpose Alberta's many inactive oil and gas wells for geothermal energy...
Scientists urge federal government to ramp up conservation efforts in eastern Arctic
A team of Canadian scientists is urging the federal government to step up its conservation efforts in the eastern Arctic to try and save some of the last remaining year-round sea ice and the undiscovered organisms that live within...
Fishing gear confirmed as major cause of right whale deaths
A major study of deaths of North Atlantic right whales has found that entanglement in fishing gear has become a leading cause of...
Rocky the Christmas tree stowaway owl returns to the wild
The owl found in a Christmas tree set up at the Rockefeller Center in New York is back in the...
T. Rex got huge via major teenage growth spurt: study
A close look at the bones of huge meat-eating dinosaurs, including Sue the T. Rex, reveals that some went through a major growth spurt, while others took decades longer to reach their gigantic adult...
Feds to keep more bureaucrats at home, overhaul property portfolio to get to 'net zero' emissions
Treasury Board President Jean-Yves Duclos will today release the federal government’s plans to drive down greenhouse gas emissions within the federal bureaucracy itself, with the goal of achieving "net zero" by 2050 through a radical restructuring of the government's property and vehicle...
AstraZeneca manufacturing error raises questions about vaccine study results
AstraZeneca and Oxford University on Wednesday acknowledged a manufacturing error that is raising questions about preliminary results of their experimental COVID-19...