After a few years of hard work, a team of post-secondary students have put together a miniature cube satellite, which will be launched into...

As Hurricane Larry lashed Newfoundland in 2021, university students from Halifax headed to a rural area in its track to find out whether the ocean might whip microplastics up into the atmosphere then transport them by air to otherwise pristine...

Nun cho ga, the baby wooly mammoth whose extraordinarily preserved remains caused a sensation after they were dug up by a miner near Dawson City, Yukon, last year, could soon be heading to Ottawa — at least for a...

Researchers found a male mosquito trapped in amber 130 million years ago, the oldest ever discovered. And it could do something no male mosquito alive today can...

Genetic testing company 23andMe, which is the subject of a proposed class-action lawsuit in Canada, says a data breach may have affected millions more customers than initially believed. The B.C. man who is the lead plaintiff says the company didn't do enough to protect...

The genetic testing company 23andMe says hackers gained access to the profiles of millions of its users in October. Now, some customers are involved in a proposed class-action lawsuit against the company.

When a group of conservation scientists set off in search of a long-lost species of South Africa moles in 2021, their colleagues warned them not to get their hopes up. But now, the team from the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) and the University of Pretoria have confirmed the elusive creature lives...

The Nova Scotia government has pledged more than $2.4 million to seven community-led projects that focus on living shorelines. Living shorelines are seen as a nature-based way to reduce coastal erosion and flooding caused by climate change. They use natural materials — rocks, plants and sand — to stabilize land along the...

The explosive spread of dengue offers a case study in how climate change, human movement, and rising temperatures are all coaligning to fuel the expansion of potentially deadly threats to human...

Doug Olson discovered a pebble-sized meteorite on his roof, marking Alberta's first witnessed meteorite fall since...

Scientists have discovered a species of crustaceans, each the size of a sesame seed, whose males lure potential mates with a synchronized and dazzling lights display powered by iridescent...

The technology is called wave devouring propulsion because of how it helps to convert wave energy into a forward...

Research offers new insights into our feline friends' biology and...

Christmas lights might not be the only thing lighting up these dark December nights, as a solar storm is expected to bring bright northern lights to the Prairies this...

Crews have installed what’s billed as the first wireless-charging public roadway in the U.S. for electric vehicles. It’s beneath a street just west of downtown...

The United Nations weather agency said Thursday that 2023 is all but certain to be the hottest year on record, warning of worrying trends that suggest increasing floods, wildfires, glacier melt and heat waves in the...

Jordan Young and his company Hooky recently developed a technology that allows artists to sound like they're singing in a different language. That resonated with American pop singer Lauv, who wanted to find a meaningful way to thank his Korean...

An underwater marine survey completed at the West Mabou Beach in Port Hood has yielded some interesting results that will shed light on what species live off the coast of Nova...

A new study has found that glacier retreat is exposing land never touched by humans and creating new rivers. This new habitat is already attracting salmon – and mining...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.