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A new report released today found that, while globally air pollution levels were somewhat flat, Canada experienced its worst pollution since 1998, with more than half of Canadians breathing air that surpassed our national standard.

Growing up in Medicine Hat, Alberta, about 125 kilometres southeast of Dinosaur Provincial Park, Andre Mueller was fascinated by the ancient creatures. More recently, the McGill student helped find a new species of dragonfly in a fossil there and ...

Just when you thought there was enough going on in the world to frazzle your nerves, along comes a flesh-eating parasite that has been spreading among livestock in Central America and has now infected a recent traveller from the U.S. and another from ...

If you're asked to picture a creature having the time of its life, a fish probably isn't the first animal that comes to mind. But new research is challenging that perception.

This summer's drought and record-breaking heat could affect the fall migration of the endangered monarch butterfly, according to researchers from the University of Ottawa.

One of Alberta's most at-risk amphibians is making a comeback. Conservation efforts to help northern leopard frog numbers bounce back have been successful in establishing new self-sustaining populations throughout the province.

One thing that has never been done in Canada is launching rockets into orbit from home soil. That could soon change. And those involved believe that it could both be an economic boon for Canada while also keeping talented engineers at home.

Universal Ostrich has been fighting an order to kill the birds since January.

After more than a century without salmon in Okanagan waters, a new fish passageway means that salmon and numerous other fish species will be able to migrate upstream to spawn.

The white tussock moth caterpillar is fuzzy, white and orange, and it's been spotted in large numbers in parts of western and central Newfoundland this summer. Scientist Joe Bowden says the spike in its population is possibly linked to climate change ...