NASA had been targeting a Feb. 8 launch date for the mission, which would send four astronauts including Canadian Jeremy Hansen on a 10-day journey around the moon. NASA says now March is the earliest possible window for launch, which will allow its teams time to review data and conduct a second rehearsal.

As demand — and competition — for critical minerals used in clean technologies heats up around the world, mining startups are flocking to the heart of Canada’s oil and gas industry to tap into a key battery metal: lithium.

Cosmetics company Estée Lauder has been fined $750,000 after federal agents found it was using "forever chemicals" in some of its eyeliner products.

NASA ran into a leak while fuelling its new moon rocket Monday in one final make-or-break test that will determine when astronauts can launch on a lunar fly-around.

Researchers have identified that some dogs are "gifted word learners” — pups who know the names of more than 100 toys. In fact, these dogs can learn new words just by eavesdropping. And even if your dog isn’t in this "gifted" group, there are many ways to help them improve how they learn.

It's Groundhog Day. That means the forecast calls for weather predictions from animal prognosticators, including Ontario's Wiarton Willie, Nova Scotia's Shubenacadie Sam, New Brunswick's Lucy the Lobster, Quebec's Fred la marmotte, B.C.'s Van Isle Violet and Punxsutawney Phil in Pennsylvania.

Last year's drought conditions depleted groundwater levels in parts of New Brunswick, leaving maple harvesters concerned about this season's yield.

The Canadian astronaut is Jeremy Hansen’s backup for NASA’s Artemis II mission around the moon, which could launch this month if all final preparations go to plan.

The astronauts of NASA's Artemis II mission could be off to space in as little as one week, including Ailsa Craig, Ont. native Jeremy Hansen. Hansen is set to become the first Canadian to fly to the moon, making Canada the second country in the world to send a human into deep space.

A North Atlantic right whale named Division was found dead in U.S. waters this week, entangled in fishing gear. It's the first entanglement death of 2026, according to the Canadian Whale Institute.

Thunder Bay-born filmmaker Laura-Lynn Petrick has directed the music video for Emm Gryner's new song, Touch the Sky, which celebrates the upcoming Artemis II moon mission, which will include Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen.

The federal government is considering a proposal to establish a new hunting season for tundra swans in Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan — a move that one hunter says could endanger the trumpeter swan, a similar-looking, sensitive species.

Artemis II is set to blast off to the moon in early February with four astronauts, including the Canadian Space Agency's Jeremy Hansen. But we've already been to the moon, so why are we going back? Do we get any benefits here on Earth?

A documentary about a polar bear, co-produced by Yukoner Mike Code has taken home a top prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

In a victory for the Liberal government, the Federal Court of Appeal has upheld its decision to list plastics as toxic, enabling Ottawa to ban single-use plastic items.

Some Atlantic salmon conservation groups in Cape Breton are raising the alarm after a federal advisory committee changed the fish's status to endangered throughout Nova Scotia and the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence.

As London, Ont., deals with a deep freeze and a shortage of road salt, researchers at Western University say they're looking into some ice-clearing alternatives.

In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we see the blooming changes that hikers have noticed in the U.K., get a look at EV models with built-in solar panels and check out an award-winning forest grown from memorial trees.

Studying close to 800 bears over nearly 25 years shows that polar bear populations in the rapidly warming Barents Sea, off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia, are doing better than polar bears in other parts of the Arctic.

A British Columbia woman is warning dog owners to watch what their pets touch on walks, after her two-year-old husky overdosed on cocaine. The Canadian Veterinary Medical Association says this is a problem across Canada. While it doesn't collect data on dog overdoses, it says, anecdotally, vets are seeing more of them.