feed info
9 articles from CBC - Technology & Science News
Cities produce 60% of global greenhouse gases. Here are some ideas to fix this from a B.C. delegate at COP26
Shauna Sylvester, executive director of Simon Fraser University's Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, is leading a delegation of Canadian cities at the United Nations climate summit in Scotland where nations are laying out their plans to curb emissions and deal with the effects of climate...
Alberta, with largest oil industry, sends fewer reps to COP26 than any other energy province
The province with Canada's largest oil and gas industry has sent one of the country's smallest delegations to the international climate conference, where emissions from that industry are under...
How Canada's largest solar farm is changing Alberta's landscape
The largest solar project in the country will have 1.3 million solar panels over 3,300 acres of farmland. When it's done, it will put enough electricity directly in to the grid to power the equivalent of 150,000...
How does an mRNA vaccine actually work?
Sophisticated mRNA vaccines had never been used in humans before, but this new life-saving technology was years in the making
Grand River is full of contaminants, says award-winning Indigenous McMaster prof
A McMaster University professor has been recognized with an international award for research into water quality at Ontario's Six Nations of the Grand River.
Maine referendum deals blow to Hydro-Québec project
Democrats weren't the only losers in elections held Tuesday in the U.S. So was a Canadian-led energy project, rejected by voters in a state referendum. It's not an oil pipeline this time. It's a Hydro-Québec corridor to New England — and its future is now in...
Swap your inhaler, skip the laughing gas: How patients can help curb health-care emissions
Experts estimate the health-care sector contributes about five per cent of Canada's greenhouse gas emissions. So what can patients and medical providers do to cut...
Financial community commits $130 trillion US to wean global economy off fossil fuels
Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney was tasked with wringing more than $100 trillion in capital from the global financial community to help get the world's economy off fossil fuels and onto clean energy. Today at the COP26 conference in Glasgow, he announced success — of...
How these N.S. farmers are reducing their carbon footprint
Small changes on a farm can make a big difference to Canada's carbon...