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8 articles from CBC - Technology & Science News
'Hope is not a plan': Northerners call for action after harrowing UN climate report
After a summer of record-breaking temperatures and floods in the North, findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are unsurprising for some northerners. Now they're renewing calls for drastic climate...
How to wipe personal data from discarded devices a mystery for some, researcher says
Used or recycled phones, tablets and computers can create privacy risks simply because many people don't know how to properly wipe sensitive personal data before disposing of the gadget, researchers at the University of Guelph...
Giant California wildfire has destroyed hundreds of homes, and still threatens many more
California's largest single wildfire in recorded history kept pushing through forestlands as fire crews tried to protect rural communities from flames that have destroyed hundreds of...
Hundreds step up for program to rescue stranded puffins and petrels
The Puffin & Petrel Patrol is back for its 17th year rescuing birds in the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve and the surrounding...
'Up to 1 million' bitcoin processors could be relocated to Alberta from China under energy firm's proposal
Three natural gas-producing sites in southern Alberta could host "up to one million" bitcoin mining machines relocated from China under a deal proposed by Nevada-based Black Rock Petroleum Company amid Beijing's ongoing crackdown on cryptocurrency production and...
Critics question B.C.'s growing fossil fuel subsidies in wake of dire new climate change report
Following the release of an alarming new report on climate change that the UN's secretary general said "must sound a death knell" for the fossil fuel industry, environmentalists in B.C. are asking why the province is still giving billions to subsidize oil and gas...
Weasels are small but serious predators capable of eating 35% of their body weight each day
Bobcats and coyotes might be common sightings in Calgary, but seeing a weasel — a small, speedy and usually nocturnal critter? That's not your everyday occurrence. So when naturalist Brian Keating saw one outside his house in Inglewood, he was sure to snap some...
Ottawa says it must maximize revenue from the Trans Mountain pipeline to fight climate change
The minister responsible for Canada's role in fighting climate change is defending his government's purchase of the Trans Mountain pipeline after a landmark UN report said the continued use of fossil fuels is pushing the climate toward...