The long-endangered North Atlantic right whale saw a "modest" increase in numbers in 2024, according to a newly released estimate from the New England Aquarium, and ship strikes and entanglements are substantially down so far this year.
The bodies of 142 migratory birds, the majority of them snow geese, were found last week in a rural area south of Saskatoon near Patience Lake, Sask. Conservation officers are requesting the public's help to identify the perpetrators.
Small modular nuclear reactors are being touted as a key piece of the future of clean energy and construction is now underway in Ontario on the first of its kind in the G7. For The National, CBC's Susan Ormiston breaks down what's behind the hype and ...
A P.E.I. seafood company has a new way of storing lobsters, thanks to some UPEI engineering students who helped design a new "rainfall" storage system that makes it easier to load and unload pallets of lobsters, while keeping them wet and healthy. .. ...
Quebec's forensic lab, the Laboratoire de sciences judiciaires et de médecine légale du Québec, is the only one of its kind in the province using cutting-edge genetic genealogy to solve decades-old murder cases.
Researchers in Kingston, Ont., are embarking upon a clinical trial that will look at whether very small doses of psilocybin -- the hallucinogenic compound in magic mushrooms -- can offer relief to people suffering from general anxiety disorder.
The creature was discovered in August when Pender Island resident Kathleen Durant was walking her dog and came across what looked like a big, red jellyfish on the beach. But then, she saw an eye.