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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Current20:06Rudeness rampant in classrooms, say teachers An Ontario teacher says “manners have gone out the door” in classrooms since the pandemic, and new research agrees that kids have become ruder to both teachers...

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...

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....

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...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...