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- 23/11/29 11:00
The land-based salmon farm is the only one in North America with zero waste discharge thanks to its proprietary water filtration system which constantly recirculates water on...
The land-based salmon farm is the only one in North America with zero waste discharge thanks to its proprietary water filtration system which constantly recirculates water on...
A research team made up of Canadian scientists and researchers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo has documented the first known cases of a deadlier strain of mpox spreading through sexual...
TUESDAY 28. NOVEMBER 2023
A Virgin Atlantic passenger jet flying from London to New York powered by 100 per cent sustainable aviation fuel took off Tuesday morning, as the aviation world seeks to showcase the potential of low-carbon options to secure its...
MONDAY 27. NOVEMBER 2023
In 1999, researchers captured the first confirmed footage of a deepsea anglerfish — bobbing around belly-up just above the ocean’s floor. Now, more than two decades later, scientists can say for certain the phenomenon goes beyond "one wonky...
A team of engineers at the Université de Moncton is fine-tuning an algorithm that works with satellite and drone images to detect fires more accurately than humans. The technology also predicts where a blaze will spread, helping firefighters know where to send...
SUNDAY 26. NOVEMBER 2023
Enjoying the relatively dry, balmy fall? There may be more to come, say experts, thanks to El Niño making its return after a nearly eight-year...
The families living here probably have no idea of the specialness of the intersection outside their door: 3,178.5 kilometres in each direction, the equator and the North Pole come to meet at this quaint...
SATURDAY 25. NOVEMBER 2023
Pregnant individuals face “extreme health risks from climate catastrophes,” according to a report released this week by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other United Nations...
FRIDAY 24. NOVEMBER 2023
A common serotine bat's penis is seven times longer and wider than the female genital tract. A researcher who specializes in bat reproduction explains how the bats get the deed...
Councillors and others from Ignace, Ont., were in Finland this month and took an elevator hundreds of metres underground to tour the world's first long-term geological repository for spent nuclear fuel. Representatives from South Bruce in southwestern Ontario have also made the trip. Costs were all covered by the Nuclear Waste Management Organization, which will decide which of the two regions...
A wild turkey has been caught and relocated to the wilderness after months of evading capture and gaining notoriety in West Orange,...
THURSDAY 23. NOVEMBER 2023
Jeremy Hansen will be the first Canadian to fly to the moon in November 2024. As he prepares for his mission he reflects on the fear he feels, the strain on his family and how his love of space...
In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at the struggle to reduce plastic use in the sale of produce and why climate scientists think their warnings are becoming repetitive yet remain utterly...
Wild pigs roaming Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba pose a new threat. They are often crossbreeds that combine the survival skills of wild Eurasian boar with the size and high fertility of domestic swine to create a "super pig" that's spreading out of...
WEDNESDAY 22. NOVEMBER 2023
A humpback whale died earlier this month after beaching itself on Sable Island. The whale had been previously sighted over 40 years...
It’s a dream that’s out of this world. The Canadian Space Agency announced that astronaut Joshua Kutryk has been assigned a six-month mission to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2025, and Jenni Gibbons will be Jeremy Hansen's back-up for the Artemis II...
A conservation group in Australia is planting trees to create corridors that help koalas safely move across the landscape in New South Wales after the marsupial populations were devastated by bushfires in 2019 and 2020.
Tristan James Hamm — who goes by "Mr. Adventure" on Instagram, describing himself as an outdoor connoisseur, adventure athlete and an entrepreneur — is accused of illegally killing two Yukon black bears and a...
Canadian Blood Services says research clearly shows there is now virtually no risk of transmitting variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease through new blood...
Crack open just about any textbook dealing with medicine or science, and you'll see a lot of the same when it comes to the human anatomy illustrations: white male bodies, usually very physically fit, absent tattoos, piercings or...
Locals worry that a social media video showing people crowding a black bear while it snacks on salmon sends the wrong message about interacting with animals in the...
TUESDAY 21. NOVEMBER 2023
Wildlife officials across the Great Lakes are looking for spies to take on an almost impossible mission: stop the spread of invasive...
Violence between rival factions has long been a part of human evolution, going all the way back to our chimpanzee ancestors. But another of our distant relatives, it turns out, are downright...
MONDAY 20. NOVEMBER 2023
The law that an American man was convicted of breaking exist to prevent the sale and export of endangered species products. Those laws are celebrated by some conservationists even as Inuit artists decry them as too...
SUNDAY 19. NOVEMBER 2023
Three New Brunswickers are enjoying an astronomical surprise: an asteroid has been named after them. It's called Mipach — using the first two letters from their...
SATURDAY 18. NOVEMBER 2023
SpaceX's uncrewed spacecraft Starship, developed to carry astronauts to the moon and beyond, was presumed to have failed in space minutes after lifting off on Saturday in a second test after its first attempt to reach space ended in an...
A new study has found a decrease in deep sleep was associated with a higher risk of dementia. A growing body of research points to clear links between deep sleep and memory formation, but also the possibility of dire consequences when someone’s sleep quality erodes over...
It was flippers against tentacles in an ocean matchup near Nanaimo, B.C.
As bird flu devastates a growing number of poultry farms in B.C., wildlife experts are raising the alarm about the deadly virus' impact on wild animals and possible threat of it turning into another pandemic among...
Tuff the horse is an 11-year-old off-track thoroughbred — and a painter. Ella Wall has built a powerful bond with the animal that includes the occasional painting session.
FRIDAY 17. NOVEMBER 2023
Iceland is part of the longest mountain range in the world where plate tectonics is violently creating a growing, massive rift along the Mid-Atlantic...
Canada's national security agencies will investigate reports that a British Columbia-based company's cutting-edge anti-drone technology was purchased by a Russian university — a possible violation of sanctions imposed on Moscow over its war on Ukraine — Defence Minister Bill Blair said...
In today’s warming world, every month or year seems like a scene out of Groundhog Day where it’s the same message over and over: Earth’s temperature is rising to dangerous levels. While some climate scientists also feel tired of the repetitiveness, they say it’s a message that bears repeating for a very important...
THURSDAY 16. NOVEMBER 2023
In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at why some scientists are agitating for more public awareness of climate tipping points and what a pika's poop can tell us about the habitat of this at-risk...
Both regulation and more parental involvement needed to rein in social media experiment, psychiatrists and scientists...