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9 articles from CBC - Technology & Science News
Musician records natural sounds from 7 continents for Earth Day
Ted White, a musician from Liverpool, England, has captured sounds of nature on all seven continents. In celebration of Earth Day, he recorded music inspired by his travels and incorporated the sounds to create seven albums, each dedicated to a different...
Trudeau pledges to slash greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% by 2030
At an international climate summit convened by U.S. President Joe Biden, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged Thursday that Canada would aggressively curb greenhouse gas emissions over the next...
NASA makes breathable oxygen from thin air on Mars
NASA has logged another extraterrestrial first on its latest mission to Mars: converting carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into pure, breathable oxygen, the U.S. space agency said on...
Biden urges countries to meet this 'moment of peril' by stepping up emissions cuts
Saying the United States and other big economies "have to get this done," U.S. President Joe Biden opened a global climate summit Thursday aimed at getting world leaders to dig deeper on emissions cuts. The United States pledged to cut in half the amount of climate-wrecking coal and petroleum fumes it is pumping...
Activists wait for RCMP to clear old-growth logging blockades on Vancouver Island
A group of activists say they have no intention of ending their anti-logging blockades on Vancouver Island, despite a court injunction and opposition from the political leadership of the Pacheedaht First...
Canada's past climate promises have been a flop. Could that change at this summit?
Canada's past climate promises have been a flop. Could this time be different? The U.S. is hosting a climate summit in a rapidly altering world, riven by geopolitical tension, changing technology, and a warming planet. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used it to set a new target of 40-45 per cent emissions...
Carbon-cutting strategy should take a couple of pages from the campaign against smoking
The fight to phase out smoking was a public policy success, and two government actions in particular are worth emulating when it comes to reducing carbon emissions, writes Eric...
More than 1,500 tree planters prepare to head west to reforest B.C. Interior
Within two weeks, tree planters from Quebec and Ontario are expected to arrive in B.C. to help in a major provincial reforestation...
We're in a new space race, but what toll is it taking on our environment?
Rocket launches are a breathtaking culmination of human ingenuity as they propel us into the future, but there is a growing concern that not enough research has been done on their effect on the...