Typhoon Ragasa slammed Taiwan, the Philippines and southern China, leaving flooding and destruction. Johanna Wagstaffe breaks down why the strongest storm of the year bears the fingerprint of climate change.

The latest Planetary Health Check report says ocean acidification has reached risky territory. Experts say it will reduce our oceans’ ability to absorb the carbon we emit and also weaken the shellfish species we depend on for food.

Typhoon Ragasa, the world's most powerful tropical cyclone this year, struck the southern Chinese city of Yangjiang on Wednesday after killing 17 people in Taiwan and lashing Hong Kong with ferocious winds and heavy rains.

Another fire on NordSpace's launch pad has further delayed a planned rocket launch on Newfoundland's south coast.

Birdwatchers from across northern Ontario and as far south as Toronto have flocked to the rural community of Foleyet to catch a glimpse of a rare bird usually found much farther south.

If all goes as planned, early next year four astronauts will blast off on a mission that’s been a long time coming: a return to the moon. Canada's Jeremy Hansen takes us through what he's been doing to prepare for the historic flight.

It's time once again for Katmai National Park's annual Fat Bear Week contest, in which nature lovers around the world vote in a tournament-style bracket for their favourite fuzzy fatty at the remote Alaskan reserve.

Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen will be heading to the moon early next year, along with three NASA astronauts. Experts discuss what to expect with this mission.

Plans to launch Canada's first commercial rocket from St. Lawrence, N.L. will have to wait another day.

A federal government official has confirmed with CBC News that the now-closed Ontario theme park Marineland has filed paperwork seeking to export its remaining 30 belugas, and a Chinese theme park says it’s considering purchasing the whales.

Mounties say they have been requested to attend an ostrich farm in British Columbia's Interior where about 400 birds have been ordered culled due to the risks of avian flu.

A research project spearheaded by the Tsawwassen First Nation is trying to help understand why sturgeon, an ancient fish, are dying unexpectedly.

Proposals to expand the Port of Churchill in northern Manitoba could bring an increase in shipping traffic — and some experts suggest that could affect the behaviour of the whales that are not only a major tourist draw in the, but an important food source for some in the North.

Discovery Geopark, located on the upper half of Newfoundland and Labrador’s Bonavista Peninsula, has regained its full status as a Global Geopark under the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.

Scientists at the University of Maine and the New England Aquarium in Boston are working together to improve their modelling to predict where endangered North Atlantic right whales will pop up next.

Two boats were rammed by a pod of young orcas recently off the coast of Portugal. One of the boats sank. Experts say it was play behaviour, but the whales caused quite the fright.

The first treaty to protect marine diversity in international waters will come into force early next year, after Morocco became the 60th nation to ratify the agreement on Friday.

The Think Like a Scientist program is designed to teach critical thinking skills to people in prison.

A UNB professor says nuclear energy will be needed to meet the province’s growing demand in the coming decades, and a full nuclear engineering program could ease the way.

Moosehead Breweries announced this week that it will stop selling beer in bottles entirely early next year. The sale of beer in cans has been growing steadily for years, but is that because Canadian beer drinkers want them, or is it because more breweries are moving to cans as a cost-saving measure?