Within weeks of a wildfire, an orange crust coats deadwood and the charred forest floor, creating an otherworldly landscape that still seems to be smoking. But instead of continued destruction, it’s a signal of rebirth: tiny fungi are colonizing the wreckage.

U.S. President Donald Trump believed he had a solution to the reflecting pool's algae problems: painting its bottom a particular shade of blue. Less than two weeks after the repair work finished, the algae is back.

Potential risks to human and animal health rise when people experiencing homelessness are forced to seek shelter in the same secluded, inner-city landscapes as urban coyotes, a new study cautions.

Researchers in Kentville, N.S., are studying ways to establish new orchards in a way that relies less on machinery and chemicals — and more on four-legged assistants. The CBC's Frances Willick has the story.

Prince Edward Islanders are again being asked to keep an eye out for smooth green snakes. They're the smallest of P.E.I.'s three snake species — and also the province's rarest reptile.

New research shows more than 150,000 square kilometres of coral reefs are resilient to the effects of climate change, far more than previously thought.

Honeybees are now living in wooden houses on the roof of Queen's Park. CBC’s Lorenda Reddekopp spoke with Speaker Donna Skelly — the driving force behind the initiative — about how and why it came together.

For the last few days, a small marsupial has been on the loose on Montreal’s South Shore, after it likely escaped from illegal captivity, say animal rights advocates and Quebec's Environment Ministry.

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.