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Quirks & Quarks is having its 50th anniversary this fall. Bob McDonald shares his appreciation for the people behind the scientific discoveries that Canada's longest running science show brings to listeners every week.

A taxidermied tropical bird from halfway around the world was destined for a dump in northern Ontario when the Canadian Museum of Nature received a chance text message.

Marine biologist Daniel Arauz Naranjo has spent a lot of time with a lot of sharks. But he's never seen one the same colour as a creamsicle before.

Carbon storage, the still mostly unproven technology to keep planet-warming greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere, has a much lower potential to reduce climate change than current projections, according to a new study published in the journal Nature ...

More than 1,000 people have been killed and entire villages wiped out in Afghanistan -- all from a 6.0-magnitude earthquake. CBC seismologist Johanna Wagstaffe reports on why this 'moderate' quake turned catastrophic, and how geology, building codes ...

On Monday night, skywatchers were treated to a moderate display of the northern lights. For those who missed out, there's still a chance they may be visible again tonight, with a stronger geomagnetic storm forecast.

A landslide wiped out a village in Sudan's western region of Darfur, killing an estimated 1,000 people in one of the deadliest natural disasters in the African country's recent history, a rebel group controlling the area said late Monday.

Storm chasers and organizations like Environment and Climate Change Canada say an influx of modified and false weather imagery is having an effect on the credibility of storm images and is affecting public safety.

New research out of the western U.S. suggests dams and ponds built by beavers can slow floods, store water and even create green firebreaks in wildfire-prone landscapes.

Divers John Brooks and Eric Peterson encountered the shark in waters near Fox Point Beach, about a 40-minute drive from Halifax.