Research from the University of Victoria shows that an area of the Georgia Strait near Comox and Denman Island was once covered in 5.5-million square metres of bull kelp forests, ten times the amount previously thought to be the baseline.

A red-headed woodpecker in the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary has left Calgary's birdwatching community in a frenzy, with countless birders coming to the popular park daily to catch a glimpse of the rare endangered bird.

It turns out stoned rats get the munchies too. New research from the University of Calgary and Washington State University digs into the effects of cannabis on rats and humans, particularly when it comes to appetite.

The International Space Station had a proposed lifespan of 15 years, but it has far exceeded that, and it's starting to show its age. Is it time to deorbit it?

The shift toward deep space exploration is set to bring new developments for Earth’s health-care systems, researchers say, including innovations such as portable medical technology and robotic care.

A group of residents in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island are coming together to remove invasive American bullfrogs in local lakes and water bodies, with tadpole trapping workshops starting this weekend.

The B.C. Conservation Service is not sure how the yearling got its head stuck in a stove pipe, but adds it is an important reminder to call the service if you see an animal in distress.

IPOs like SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI have dominated headlines lately, as a number of high-profile private companies announced they will become publicly traded firms. The hype is hard to ignore — but could these IPOs fall flat?

El Niño, nature's chaotic climate agent, has formed in a warmed-up Pacific Ocean and is expected to grow to historic strength, meteorologists said Thursday.

Phones buzzed repeatedly across southern Manitoba with tornado alerts Tuesday night, even though the threat was far away for many who got the frequent alerts.

Climate change is pushing ticks into new habitats across southern Canada and experts say the pests could soon be bothering a majority of Canadians.

Scientists have reconstructed genomes of woolly mammoths, horses, steppe bison and ground squirrels that roamed the grasslands of the Canadian Arctic as far back as 700,000 years ago using DNA found in frozen squirrel poop from the Yukon.

Infection rates for deadly mosquito-borne diseases are extremely low in Canada. But experts warn climate change and evolving environmental factors — including deforestation — are rapidly expanding the geographical range of the world's deadliest animal, and the way it lives and breeds.

Star Blanket Cree Nation in Saskatchewan welcomed a herd of bison in May, one of many First Nations that are bringing the animal back to the Prairies and to their communities. Those now tasked with their care talk about what’s it like to carry the responsibility of the future for the bison and for their nation's connection to them.

Former soldier Brendan Hynes thinks he has CTE, but the devastating brain disease can’t be confirmed until after someone’s dead. Could cutting-edge Canadian research be the solution?

An emu with four legs hatched at a farm in Nanaimo, B.C., over the weekend, leaving the owners and veterinarians perplexed as to the cause for the malformation.

NASA announced the astronauts who will be part of the next Artemis mission, slated for next year. Questions remain about how realistic the timelines are, given recent setbacks to a private partner, Blue Origin.

The Alberta government says a grizzly bear that tried breaking into a chicken coop near Red Lodge Provincial Park in central Alberta was trapped and killed on June 6.

A Canadian scientist has found that amputated bits of flesh cut from scarlet sea cucumbers can carry on for years in a strange new form, somewhere between life and death.

Screwworm won't kneecap Canada's beef industry, but an advocate says the parasite's incursion into the U.S. is a good reminder for farmers and ranchers here to take extra precautions.