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The federal government's new report summarizing the latest science on climate change warns that under current climate policies, the impact on Canadians will likely be "far from benign."

A team of University of Waterloo scientists won this year's Ig Nobel Physics Prize for their "theoretical and experimental attempts to design a splash-free urinal."

The El Niño weather phenomenon is set to intensify further into 2027 and could be the strongest ever, raising risks of extreme weather into next year, the World Meteorological Organization said on Thursday.

Mark Robinson, a meteorologist and storm chaser with The Weather Network, says the hail, high winds and lightning from Wednesday's storms in southern Ontario show just how much energy they produced.

Shedd Aquarium in Chicago says two whales have died after it took in several beluga whales from Marineland in Niagara Falls, Ont.

In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming's harms. Officials say the world must now figure out how to get temperatures ...

Riding on Prime Minister Mark Carney's use of the proper word for a body of water, a London, Ont., company has created T-shirts emblazoned with "My hydronyms are Lake and Ontario." A portion of the apparel sales proceeds go to Swim Drink Fish Canada, ...

A group of mathematicians and computer scientists has cracked the code to create dice that can determine a winner in single roll with no chance of a tie.

Scientists at a little-known federal agency in Ottawa reveal the forensic tools that helped crack the largest art fraud case in history. For decades, the forgery ring produced thousands of fake paintings attributed to famed Anishinaabe artist Norval ...

Dawn, fuzzy fat father who likes the taste of rocks, is officially the most popular yellow-bellied marmot in Gothic, Colo. The Fat Marmot Week contest is the brainchild of the Marmot Project, a long-term research initiative whose future hangs in the ...