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6 articles from CBC - Technology & Science News
Federal, Quebec governments to spend $826 million to expand high-speed internet
For the second week in a row, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shared a stage with Premier Francois Legault Monday as they made a joint funding announcement aimed at improving access to high-speed internet in...
Despite Conservatives voting against climate motion, O'Toole says he'll have a climate plan before election
Despite the fact that his party's members voted down a resolution to acknowledge that climate change is real, Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole says he'll present a plan to address climate change before the next...
Thousands of dead herring dumped off coast of Vancouver Island, conservationists say
A conservation group that’s long opposed the B.C. herring fishery is sounding an alarm about a potential dump the spawning fish in Deep Bay, near Bowser on Vancouver...
800-year-old moccasin connects Dene migrants to the American southwest
A strap of bison leather on a distinctly subarctic Dene moccasin in the 13th century suggests early Dene migrants from northwestern America travelled closer to the Apache and Navajo homelands than previously...
World Water Day 2021 highlights dire predictions of growing scarcity
About four billion people experience severe water shortages for at least one month a year, and around 1.6 billion people — almost a quarter of the world's population — have problems accessing a clean, safe water supply, according to the United...
Made with fungi, mycelium hits market as green substitute for leather, plastic
This past week, British fashion designer Stella McCartney unveiled a black 'leather' bustier top and pants made not from cow hide, but mycelium, which is grown from fungi. Here's a closer look at the potential uses of...