Like many jurisdictions, Nova Scotia is hoping green hydrogen holds the key to transitioning away from fossil fuels. But challenges remain, and local researchers are hoping to provide some of the...

Following a coolant leak on a Soyuz capsule earlier this month, three members of the International Space Station might need an alternative ride...

Five trail cameras set up along an inactive logging road outside of Courtenay, B.C., for a year shows the biodiversity of even the smallest green spaces in the province according to the creators of a series by the Hakai Institute, a research and conservation...

Strolling along the shore on Ault Island, Cliff Steinburg points to the end of his dock. He says this summer there was less than a foot of water there, making it impossible to launch a boat. While the river has since stabilized, Steinburg worries what next year will bring to a region known for its fishing, beaches, and...

Some Canadian startups are aiming to give depleted EV batteries new life by recycling them and retrieving the valuable critical minerals within so they can be reused to make more...

Students doing graduate-level research say Canada risks losing its future scientists to other countries because the dollar amounts of annual grants have remained stagnant for nearly 20...

Researchers surveyed Western Hudson Bay and estimated there were 618 bears, compared to the 842 in 2016, when they were last...

A group of researchers at the University of British Columbia got to work locating, measuring and then evaluating a number of these overpasses to see how different dimensions impact how effective an overpass is at encouraging wildlife to...

Dolphins, like people, are incredibly intelligent and social creatures. And also like people, they may be prone to the ravages of cognitive...

Bob McDonald's blog: Space and climate change dominated science headlines in the past...

New research shows "unprecedented" evidence that about 13,000 years ago, a settlement of Paleo Indigenous people in the Hamilton area hunted and butchered either a mammoth or a mastodon. The discovery is consistent with the oral histories of the Haudenosaunee...

The Ontario government has officially removed environmental protection for approximately 2,995 hectares of Greenbelt land in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) despite widespread opposition across several sectors of...

A foot of a tiny mammal was found inside a microraptor’s skeleton. Such discoveries are very rare.

While 2022 wasn’t as bad weather-wise as 2021, there was still a lot of severe weather Canadians had to deal with this year. Here's Environment and Climate Change Canada's Top 10 stories of the...

Against the ravaging seas, Quebec's coastal communities have learned through bitter experience that the way to advance against climate change is to...

Negotiators in Montreal have finalized an agreement to halt and reverse the destruction of nature by 2030, as the COP15 talks enter their final official...

The funding gap between what developing countries need for conservation and what's actually being offered by wealthy nations has become a major sticking point at the UN biodiversity conference in...

In 2024, our view of the universe is going to change drastically. When the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is complete, it will be possible to produce images of the night sky that are both sharper and more wide-ranging than ever before — revolutionizing our knowledge of galaxies, according to astrophysicist Louise...

Bob McDonald's blog: A laser fusion experiment in the U.S. produced more energy out than went into driving it, which is an important step. But practical fusion power will likely come from a different technology and is still many years...

More than a million people have tried out ChatGPT, a new online artificial intelligence tool trained to mimic human responses. It can respond to questions, craft poems or plays, and even write the introduction to a radio...

A coolant leak from a Russian space capsule attached to the International Space Station was likely caused by a micrometeorite strike, a Russian space official said...

The U.S. Department of Energy on Tuesday announced a breakthrough in nuclear fusion, a way of producing clean energy that scientists have been working on since the 1940s. So what exactly is it, why is it so important and what does it mean for the...

United States Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm was set to announce a "major scientific breakthrough" Tuesday in the decades-long quest to harness fusion, the energy that powers the sun and...

A hunk of space rock that blazed across the Alberta sky in February 2021 is helping researchers better understand a cluster of icy objects floating along the farthest reaches of the solar...