Canadian negotiators at the United Nations plastic pollution treaty talks in South Korea said Thursday they are working “around the clock” to finalize an agreement, though the process has been predictably difficult. Negotiators from 177 countries are meeting in Busan for what is supposed to be the fifth and final…

Muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside suggest two of our early human ancestors were nearby neighbours some 1.5 million years ago. The footprints were left in the mud by two different species “within a matter of hours, or at most days,” said paleontologist Louise Leakey, co-author of the research…

Andrea Arnold knows a lot about what goes on in the Village of McBride, a community of about 600 people in British Columbia’s Robson Valley. As a reporter for the Rocky Mountain Goat newspaper, she keeps track of wildfires, local sports teams and pretty much everything happening in the picturesque mountain…

Alberta’s government says it will invest up to $50 million to support the creation of a first-in-Canada drilling test site to support technology development in the oil, gas, geothermal and lithium industries. The Alberta Drilling Accelerator is intended to be an open-access, industry-led site where companies can test drilling technologies…

The Current14:19Harnessing ocean waves to power your home Scientist Burke Hales says one of the things holding back the development of ocean wave energy is the lack of places to test the equipment. But he hopes his new facility off the coast of Oregon will help change that.  “That’s the…

Residents of a northern Alberta town are over the moon that it could share its name with the first Canadian rover set to explore the dark, cold terrain of Earth’s closest celestial neighbour. The Canadian Space Agency is seeking a moniker for the four-wheeled, one-metre-tall robot set to scour for…

Scott Aspinall and a small crew travelled to northern Saskatchewan to capture the Milky Way’s core from the east side of Nistowiak Falls, one of the province’s tallest waterfalls. The journey was recorded for a Tourism Saskatchewan video promoting astrophotography.

The hazelnut tree has long been a part of the landscape in parts of British Columbia. A 19th-century settler gave the village of Hazelton in northern B.C.’s Skeena region its name because of the abundance of hazelnuts in the area.  A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science indicates…

A family of orcas in Vancouver’s False Creek have sparked joy among the people who saw them. It happened Sunday and was witnessed by Joanne Randle, who was travelling on False Creek Ferries, a small commuter service that transports people to and from Granville Island. “All of a sudden, the…

McGill University students and paleontologists have documented Saskatchewan’s first known fossil specimens of centrosaurus, a horned dinosaur species, along the South Saskatchewan River. Researchers say it gives a peek into what the province looked like more than 75 million years ago.   Centrosaurus was a herbivorous dinosaur with one horn on its snout…

Governments in Canada, the U.S. and abroad along with tech giants are all eyeing nuclear power to meet a growing demand for electricity and climate goals at the same time.  Just days ago, the U.S. announced plans to triple its nuclear capacity by 2050. Tech giants Google, Amazon and Microsoft are…

The federal government did not meet the targets for its program to plant two billion trees during the program’s third planting season. Numbers provided by Natural Resources Canada show Ottawa did not meet its annual planting and spending targets for the 2023-24 growing season. Ottawa and its partners were supposed to…

This story is part of CBC Health’s Second Opinion, a weekly analysis of health and medical science news emailed to subscribers on Saturday mornings. If you haven’t subscribed yet, you can do that by clicking here. Canadian cancer researchers are part of global efforts to test targeted alpha therapy, a new…

As cold temperatures are once again upon us, it’s unlikely many Canadians are thinking about heat waves. But Canadians increasingly have to deal with them, and it’s virtually certain next year won’t be any different. In 2021, a heat wave stifled parts of B.C., killing roughly 600 people. As a result, many…

A professor at Laurentian University in Sudbury will be putting honey bees to work to better understand how climate change is affecting different plants and pollinators across Ontario. Mateus Pepinelli, an assistant professor at Laurentian’s School of Natural Science, has been testing small devices that can collect environmental DNA from the…

Three judges have delivered another blow to beleaguered commercial groups that fish for lucrative juvenile eels in the Maritimes, agreeing with a lower court ruling that upheld Ottawa’s 2022 decision to transfer a portion of their quota to First Nations without compensation. The Federal Court of Appeal heard arguments in…

Yes, we’re going to talk about another year of warming. You might be tired of the same old tale: another year, another position on the top 10 warmest years, a podium on which we definitely don’t want to stand. But the past two years have been different — and climate…

It’s easy to spot contrasts in the forest landscape around Jasper National Park. Countless coniferous trees with thick, deep green branches line roads and mountainsides in areas spared from July’s wildfire. Burned areas look barer, with the remains of charred branchless tree trunks. There are signs of new life under…

The new head of the National Microbiology Lab (NML) in Winnipeg has some homework to do before taking over the high-security facility — starting with a long-awaited parliamentary committee report that recommends immediately ending all government-funded research in sensitive areas with people or entities from within China.  Dr. Jean Longtin, who was with Quebec’s Ministry of…

A team of scientists, including one in Saskatoon, say they have strong evidence that the COVID-19 virus jumped from infected animals to humans, rather than originating from a laboratory leak.  The analysis of hundreds of genetic samples provides strong but circumstantial evidence that the pandemic’s origin is connected to the wildlife trade in the Huanan…