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- 20/8/31 20:44
Meltwater from shrinking glaciers is creating vast lakes that could eventually pose an enormous flooding threat, says newly published...
Meltwater from shrinking glaciers is creating vast lakes that could eventually pose an enormous flooding threat, says newly published...
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's neuroscience startup Neuralink has unveiled a pig named Gertrude that has had a coin-sized computer chip in its brain for two months, showing off an early step toward the goal of curing human diseases with the same type of...
If you applied for financial help during the COVID-19 pandemic under the CERB and CESB benefits programs, you might have had your identity stolen — and you're now included in a proposed class action lawsuit aimed at getting some compensation....
Three unexpected visitors weaseled their way into the Churchill Health Centre this...
The Wildlife Haven Rehabiltation Centre was gifted a Lytbot disinfection and electrostatic portable sprayer, which emits UV lights to disinfect...
SUNDAY 30. AUGUST 2020
Parents and First Nations schools are turning to education options like medicine picking and getting out on the land as outdoor options for schooling amid...
The carcasses of the elephants were discovered on Friday in Pandamasue Forest, located between Hwange National Park and Victoria...
Marine mammal specialists and whale rescue groups say they're not sure how much fishing gear three entangled humpback whales spotted off the coast of British Columbia are still carrying, leaving experts...
Conservation officers say they will try to trap a black bear that was filmed on Saturday tapping a runner with its paw on a popular trail in B.C.'s Lower...
The expedition's easy journey from Greenland to the North Pole is another indicator of how the Arctic is impacted by climate change more than anywhere else on Earth, writes CBC's northern...
FRIDAY 28. AUGUST 2020
The tusks of a stoutly built plant-eating mammal relative that inhabited Antarctica 250 million years ago are providing the oldest-known evidence that animals resorted to hibernation-like states to get through lean times such as polar...
THURSDAY 27. AUGUST 2020
In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at the concept of Earth Overshoot Day, the property risk associated with U.S. wildfires and a rare ecosystem in Nova Scotia that's in...
Seven months after an Edmonton software engineer was arrested by Iranian intelligence agents, imprisoned, interrogated and coerced into becoming a state informant under threat of death, he still feels trapped.
Scientists have calculated just how cold it got on Earth during the depths of the last Ice Age, when immense ice sheets covered large parts of North America, South America, Europe and Asia.
TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer has left the Chinese-owned video app firm just three months since joining, and only days since the company sued the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump over an executive order effectively banning it in the United...
Fox News host Tucker Carlson drew the ire of Twitter users on Wednesday when he spoke of the deadly violence that erupted the previous night in Kenosha, Wis., where police have accused a white teen of intentional homicide. Meanwhile, Facebook said it had taken down some militia pages that encouraged armed civilians to travel to...
A Vancouver Island hotelier accused in connection with a U.S. Ponzi scheme is suing Facebook for $50 million over the existence of an “imposter” account set up in his...
Hurricane Laura made landfall early Thursday in southwestern Louisiana as one of the most powerful storms to hit the state, with forecasters warning it could push a massive wall of water nearly 65 kilometres inland from the...
Conservationists say the endangered southern resident killer whales will be further affected if the navy is allowed to fire torpedoes, deploy sonar and detonate bombs at...
A collaboration between a Chinese vaccine manufacturer and a Halifax research team to test a potential COVID-19 vaccine has been abandoned after China would not approve the vaccine candidate for export to...
WEDNESDAY 26. AUGUST 2020
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting between 19 and 25 storms in the Atlantic Ocean this...
How life arose on Earth remains a mystery, though many hypotheses have been proposed. Now a new study by Japanese scientists has reinvigorated the discussion around panspermia: The idea that life may have reached Earth from...
TUESDAY 25. AUGUST 2020
A federal judge on Monday blocked Apple Inc. from shutting down an Epic Games tool that's relied upon by hundreds of other app makers but had become the subject of an antitrust battle between the...
Salmon are returning to their spawning grounds smaller in size and younger, and researchers say it's because they are spending fewer years in the...
Israeli archaeologists have announced the discovery of a trove of early Islamic gold coins found during recent salvage excavations near the central city of...
A parachutist completed the world's first jump from a solar-powered aircraft on Tuesday after the plane soared to a height of 1,520 metres (nearly 5,000 ft) over western Switzerland, Swiss organizers...
Toronto-based TransPod has signed an agreement with the Alberta government that will see the province support the firm's early efforts to advance development of an ultra-high-speed transportation line between Calgary and...
Researchers and public health officials are calling for saliva-based COVID-19 tests in schools. But despite international efforts to make this option a reality, there’s still no word on when saliva-based testing will be allowed anywhere in...
As Zoom shares fell following a widespread glitch in the video conferencing platform on Monday, businesses and schools that were locked into a single chat platform got a fresh lesson in adding Murphy’s Law to plans in the age of technology...
Calgary's air quality was rated as unhealthy as higher-polluting regions of China on Monday evening, as heavy smoke blew into the city from wildfires in...
MONDAY 24. AUGUST 2020
In a press release Monday, several conservation groups say the U.S.'s leasing program for oil and gas development on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's coastal plain is...
Hubert Esquirol said he was talking on a satellite phone with his daughter, Stephanie Blais, when the 44-year-old was attacked and killed by a black bear at the family cabin on McKie Lake, near Buffalo Narrows in northern...
TikTok said on Monday that "we simply have no choice" but to sue the Trump administration over U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order banning U.S. transactions with the popular short-form video-sharing...
Two whales decided to crash Sarah and Sean Russell's fishing trip this past...
With the government well into the process of drafting new recycling regulations, a coalition of environmental groups are sharing...