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- 11/7/14 20:48
The world's forests take up roughly a third of the carbon dioxide emitted from burning fossil fuels each year.
The world's forests take up roughly a third of the carbon dioxide emitted from burning fossil fuels each year.
Revenues for Canada's cable, satellite and other broadcasting distribution firms rose to $12.5 billion in 2010, while they contributed just $100.7 million to a local programming fund.
In a broad new cybersecurity strategy to be released Thursday, the U.S. Defence Department lays out its vulnerabilities to attack from both outside and within its own workforce.
Toronto will play host to one of its biggest conferences next year after Microsoft Corp. said it planned to meet in the city in 2012.
A summer camp designed to get young people to play video games is perpetuating New Brunswick's problem of childhood obesity, according to one of the province's most well-known promoters of healthy lifestyles among children.
CBC's Kady O'Malley reports live as MTS Allstream, the World Broadband Foundation, and Vaxination Informatique appear at CRTC hearings that could affect the internet prices and options available to consumers.
Natural gas is not a "transition" fuel to a low-carbon energy future, says a report from two of Canada's most respected environmental think-tanks.
WEDNESDAY 13. JULY 2011
A coalition of environment groups says the large corporate sponsorship at next week's meeting of energy ministers "sends the wrong message to Canadians."
Nunavut government officials are defending their decision not to give a Chicago man an archeological permit to search for Sir John Franklin's grave in the Arctic.
Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver urged Canadians to apply for the federal government's reintroduced home retrofit subsidy that will end in less than a year.
Non-profit organization Grand Challenges Canada helps fund a Tanzanian doctor who is developing a trap that attracts and kills malaria-spreading mosquitoes with the odour of smelly socks.
CBC's Kady O'Malley reports live on Day 3 of the CRTC hearing that will determine how independent internet service providers should be billed by companies such as Bell for access to their networks.
A two-headed snake has gone on display at a zoo in southern Ukraine.
A Minnesota man is sentenced to 18 years in prison for hacking into his neighbours' wireless network and framing them for distributing child pornography and email threats against U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden and other officials.
A P.E.I. farmer is using an iPhone app to help him care for his cows.
Canada is set to include the polar bear on its list of species at risk, but not as a threatened or endangered species.
TUESDAY 12. JULY 2011
The Nunavut government has commissioned its new high-tech fishery research ship to find out what commercially viable fish populations may exist along the territory's coastline.
Two NASA astronauts are outside the International Space Station on the last spacewalk that will ever be part of a space shuttle mission.
Shareholders will have some sharp questions for company officials when Research In Motion Ltd. holds its annual meeting in Waterloo, Ontario late Tuesday.
CBC's Kady O'Malley reports live as consumer groups and cable companies appear before the CRTC for the second day of a public hearing on usage-based internet billing.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is due back in court in London for the latest instalment in his fight against extradition to Sweden, where the 40-year-old Australian is accused of rape and molestation.
People in Nunavut are encountering plant and animal species they have never seen before in Canada's Arctic, species more commonly seen south of 60.
MONDAY 11. JULY 2011
The common practice of clipping the small back fin of salmon to discern hatchery raised fish from wild may not be as harmless as experts once believed.
Bankruptcy courts in Canada and the United States have approved the sale of 6,000 patents held by defunct Nortel Networks Corp. to a partnership of six leading technology companies in a deal worth $4.5 billion US.
A Chicago man's bid to locate Sir John Franklin's grave in the Arctic has been rejected by the Nunavut government, which ordered him to stop or else face possible jail time.