The Yukon government's paleontologist is calling a frozen baby woolly mammoth found this week near Dawson City the 'most important discovery in paleontology in North...

You're in the mood for fish and your server suggests a dish of invasive carp. 'Ugh,' you might say. But how about broiled copi, fresh from the Mississippi...

Yukon paleontologist Grant Zazula and his team have already found the shoulder blade of a woolly mammoth, a complete tusk, some leg bones, a steppe bison, some horses and some...

If you’re a morning person, there’s a treat in the sky before sunrise: five of the sky’s brightest planets all lined up among the...

While Canada produces many talented astronomers, astrophysicists and physicists, few of them are Black. The question is:...

Saharnaz Safari and Sohrab Haghighat, spoke to CBC News about their company SpaceRyde alongside Chris Hadfield, the first Canadian astronaut to live aboard the International Space Station. Their goal: to make history as the first orbital rocket to launch from a...

Fog can be predicted only a few hours in advance, if at all, because it's not well understood what causes it. A new study aims to change...

The world's largest recorded freshwater fish, a giant stingray, has been caught in the Mekong River in Cambodia, according to scientists from the Southeast Asian nation and the United...

Ray St-Laurent owns an electric car. And an electric lawnmower. And an electric snowblower. “Whatever is new and neat” tends to get the retired mechanical engineer's...

Bob McDonald's blog: The moth's wings can absorb up to 87% of incoming sound, a handy trait when being hunted by a...

Canada's nuclear waste agency says someone posing as an Indigenous chief convinced agency officials to put nearly $300,00 into a private bank account, money that was meant for a community development on a First Nation in...

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we examine the growth of 'garden suites' in urban areas and a trio of lethal lakes in central Africa.

A Canadian company that uses satellites to spot sources of methane emissions around the globe said Wednesday that it detected one of the largest artificial releases of the potent greenhouse gas ever seen, coming from a coal mine in Russia earlier this...

SpaceX cleared a key hurdle Monday for its plan to launch a gigantic, futuristic rocketship into orbit from...

More than 10,000 visitors were ordered out of Yellowstone as unprecedented flooding tore through the northern half of the nation's oldest national...

The European Space Agency has released a trove of data on almost 2 billion stars in the Milky Way, collected by its Gaia mission in an effort to create the most accurate and complete map of our...

It's spawning season for the vampire-like sea lamprey. That means they're heading back to New Brunswick waterways to reproduce and...

Students with the Dalhousie Space Systems Lab have constructed the first satellite made in Nova Scotia and it will soon be launched into space — an Atlantic Canadian...

Bob McDonald's blog: Swedish study finds hydrofoil technology could reduce consumption of fossil fuels used in ships by no less than 80 per...

A tiny meteoroid struck the newly deployed James Webb Space Telescope in May, knocking one of its gold-plated mirrors out of alignment but not changing the orbiting observatory's schedule to become fully operational shortly, NASA said on...

A wildlife refuge in northern B.C. says rising fuel costs are threatening the rescue of orphaned bear cubs and the return of yearling bears to their native ranges across the...

A high streamflow advisory has been issued for several British Columbia communities along the Lower Fraser River due to increasing snowmelt and wet...

Mountain snowmelt in BC, Yukon and the Northwest Territories is contributing to high water levels and flow in the Liard and South Nahanni Rivers. The N.W.T. government is warning Fort Liard and Nahanni Butte to be on alert for possible...

An area nearly four times the size of Cape Breton off Nova Scotia was declared a marine refuge by Canada on World Oceans...

Master carver Jaalen Edenshaw is making the switch to solar power for his creations on not-so-sunny Haida Gwaii to encourage alternatives to the region's reliance on...

Powerful bursts of radio waves emanating from a distant dwarf galaxy that were detected using a massive telescope in China are moving scientists closer to solving what one called a "cosmic mystery" that has lingered for...

For the past few summers, flocks of sheep have been serving as ecologically friendly lawn mowers to help manage the landscaping in some Montreal parks. This weekend, volunteers were trained on how to be urban shepherds for the...

The University of Calgary, in partnership with Old Sun Community College, is working with Siksika elders and community members in its archeological excavation on the Siksika...

Experts are warning about the negative health impacts from air pollution as we head into wildfire season — and new research suggests it could exacerbate severe outcomes from COVID-19 and increase the risk of lung...

Mi'kmaw astronomer Hilding Neilson and Dene Chief Fred Sangris have brought their Indigenous perspectives to the study of astronomy. Neilson says applying these different lenses when looking at the stars can help create a better and more inclusive field of...

June 5 is the UN's International Day for the Fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (IUU), and officials say the issue is only getting worse globally. In Ecuador, they are turning to sophisticated technology to tackle the...

Cold and wet weather has meant a very slow start to B.C.’s wildfire season, and while that’s expected to continue throughout June, late summer could bring more dangerous conditions, according to the latest fire...

Bob McDonald's blog: The movie's fictional Darkstar aircraft is based on historical innovations in hypersonic...

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we catch up with a B.C. First Nation that aims to convert almost entirely to heat pumps and examine how recyclable electric vehicle batteries...

As the United Kingdom moves to bring back the imperial system, fans of metric measurements say it's time for Canada to go the opposite way, and drop the imperial system for...

The program teaches young people about insect monitoring, identification, preservation and the ecosystem of the North while taking an inventory of the thousands of insect species in the...

As summer quickly approaches, so too does the threat of tornadoes. But the chance that Canadians will be properly warned about an approaching twister are low, according to a new...

Doug Williamson's resourcefulness after a devastating tornado in Uxbridge, Ont., was a game changer. His quick thinking has prompted the town to consider adding Elon Musk's Starlink system to its emergency response arsenal. But experts are advising...

Archaeologists working near Cairo have uncovered hundreds of ancient Egyptian coffins and bronze statues of...

Hurricane Agatha made history as the strongest hurricane ever recorded to come ashore in May during the eastern Pacific hurricane season, making landfall on a sparsely populated stretch of small beach towns and fishing villages in southern...

Astronomers are waiting to see if a normally quiet meteor shower puts on a show Monday night. There's a potential outburst from the tau Herculids, but the key word is...

As the war rages in Ukraine, there is growing concern about the long-lasting effect it will have on the scientific community — and of the lost opportunities for discovery in the fields of academia, medicine and science. Canadian scientists, however, are trying to help researchers displaced by the...

The world is getting hotter and heat waves will become more common, testing the limits of how much our bodies can handle. Experts say we need to rethink the way we live and...

Have you been wondering if electric vehicle batteries are recyclable or sustainable? How many types of EV batteries are there? Where are the raw materials coming from? We asked the...