We take a look at what a warmer world means for Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Fishing communities in southwestern New Brunswick are trying to figure out how to use a decade of alarming science reports to get ready for the...

A Nova Scotia family says their upstairs smoke detector didn't go off during a fire, leading them to have to jump out a window to safety. They are warning others about smoke detectors past their life...

A group of Indigenous communities in northeast Alberta are competing with big name oil and gas companies to secure the rights to construct and operate the first large-scale, regional carbon capture and storage facility in the...

A professor at Western University in London, Ont., is accusing a colleague of hiding behind the protections of academic freedom to spread misinformation about the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines and other public health...

Vancouver and Quebec recently banned certain kinds of fossil fuel-based heating in new home construction. Similar bans are happening around the world, from Norway to New York City. But why — and why now? What impact will they have? Here's a closer...

Mark Drysdale's repeated efforts to open a zoo featuring lions and tigers in various small Ontario towns have exposed a serious dilemma for municipalities: How to keep residents safe while navigating an individual's right to keep wild animals? Animal rights advocates say a lack of provincial or federal regulations has resulted in a patchwork of laws that can often fail to protect...

Gas stoves are contributing more to global warming than previously thought because of constant tiny methane leaks while they're off, a new study...

Bob McDonald's blog: News that a derelict SpaceX booster could crash into the moon should focus attention on our space junk problem, and how it could reach beyond Earth...

Scientists have detected what appears to be an incredibly dense star behaving unlike anything else ever seen — and suspect it might be a type of exotic astrophysical object whose existence has until now been only...

A community group that's working to dig up pavement in the region and convert it into green space is expanding this spring with two new sites in London and St....

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at the challenges of meeting net zero goals without natural gas and hear from one Ontario town that a year ago banned single-use...

Space enthusiast Kyle Hippchen was the real winner of a first-of-its-kind sweepstakes but missed the fine print — and, ultimately, a trip to...

Fishery and conservation groups in British Columbia warn a unique species of ocean-going trout faces a "severe conservation crisis'' and must be added to Canada's Species at Risk...

With 192 lasers and temperatures more than three times hotter than the center of the sun, scientists hit — at least for a fraction of a second — a key milestone on the long road toward nearly pollution-free fusion...

New research from the University of Alberta sheds light on how rural agricultural landowners in Alberta view wind power projects on their land.

A vaccine collaboration between McMaster University in Hamilton and a former Chinese partner stalled years ago and they are now independently racing to develop similar COVID-19 boosters, The Fifth Estate has...

What do you get when you put furnace filters, a box fan and whole lot of duct tape together? An experiential learning project about air filters that helps during the COVID-19...

The owner of an industrial composting facility in the B.C. Interior is condemning what he says is misinformation after images of thousands of pig carcasses piled near the Similkameen River appeared in local...

A thunderstorm that created a downburst last summer near Sambaa K'e, N.W.T., caused visible tree damage in an area more than 60 kilometres long and up to nine kilometres wide. A scientist says we should expect more of these types of storms in the near...

A monkey with ghostly white circles around its eyes is among 224 new species listed in the World Wildlife Fund's latest update on the greater Mekong region in...

Meet Methuselah, the fish that likes to eat fresh figs, get belly rubs and is believed to be the oldest living aquarium fish in the...

Unlocking the mysteries behind Omicron's unique set of mutations will be key to understanding how this virus evolves and spreads — particularly as a tougher-to-detect subvariant called BA.2 is taking off in various...

Demolishing an existing building, throwing it away in a landfill, is a staggering act of conspicuous consumption, writes Sarah...