A new study found that grizzly bears have had to change their movements across the Canadian Rockies as they avoid human development like coal mines, highways, large reservoirs and towns.

The chimney swift is a bird threatened with extinction that nests in urban chimneys. Thanks to laws that protect it, some affordable housing providers have to come up with creative bird housing solutions before going ahead with human housing projects.

As consumers have grown less worried about whether their diamonds are mined or made, many have turned to cost-friendly lab grown diamonds. And that’s having a big impact on the diamond mining industry — including for Canada.

NASA scientists say pending cuts to the space agency could compromise mission safety and pave the way for another tragedy like the 1986 Challenger disaster.

With invasive carp breeding just across the border, it’s not a question of if, but when they arrive in Canada. Now federal scientists are racing to root out the carp before they crash the party and to capture an ecosystem on the brink of irreversible change.

Scientists are concerned the smoke from wildfires in Manitoba could be even more toxic than usual, saying more research needs to be done on the kind of pollutants that are being released into the air.

A wildlife rescue in Ottawa is hoping the province will allow it to transfer a blind baby moose to the Toronto Zoo to live out its days in captivity, or it may be forced to euthanize it. 

Until this spring, the world's smallest species of snake was considered lost to science, and quite possibly extinct — until Connor Blades and his colleague found one under a small rock in the forest.

The Northern Hail Project from Western University is working to better understand and predict Alberta's hailstorm activity, and mitigate the harm it brings to people and property.

South Australia's state premier has declared a toxic algal bloom a "natural disaster" amid thousands of marine animal deaths, as well as impacts to tourism and seafood farming.

A Kamloops, B.C., resident has reported invasive Japanese beetles outside the city's downtown core — an area which is considered a containment zone for the foliage-eating species.

Wild turnip picking has been a tradition spanning generations in some Nakoda and Lakota communities. Families will go out on the lands together and dig up and harvest wild turnips in the month of June which are then used for food and medicines.

Astronomers believe they have captured an image of a planet in the act of forming, something that has never before been witnessed.

The Canadian military and possibly the coast guard are keeping tabs on a Chinese research vessel as it returns to Arctic waters off Alaska for the second year in a row.

A leatherback sea turtle was spotted near Haida Gwaii, a collection of islands off B.C.'s northwest coast, and conservationists are celebrating the rare sighting as they are a critically endangered species in Canada.

There are less than 370 North Atlantic right whales left in the world — and a local man spotted one off the southern Avalon Peninsula earlier this month.

It's an important waterway in North America, but conditions in the St. Lawrence River can change rapidly and its size and force makes rescues complicated and dangerous for emergency responders.

Howard Mah and Lori Arnason had set out for a short hike to Troll Falls in Alberta's Kananaskis Country on July 19 to celebrate their wedding anniversary — one they won't soon forget.

Finding fake Norval Morrisseau paintings is a time consuming pursuit that requires co-operation from galleries and collectors, as well as a a trained, critical eye. But a new tool has emerged to help in the battle: artificial intelligence.

Buffalo Pound Provincial Park is believed to be the first provincial park in Saskatchewan using GPS ear tags to track the location of bison.