CBC News has identified several North American-based organizations that have relocated upcoming conferences, either partially or fully, from the U.S. to Canada. Conference organizers said travel concerns were a decisive factor.

During a family trip to Point Farms Provincial Park north of Goderich, Ont., in 2023, Lucas Atchison was using a metal detector he got for his birthday when he found something big and old.

A University of Helsinki food scientist is this year’s winner of Science magazine’s annual Dance Your PhD contest, which has academics ditch their lab coats for latex as they explain their dissertations with movement and song.

A recent study has found that climate change is altering Arctic plant composition, with some species declining in response to warmer temperatures, while others flourish. Researchers studied over 2,000 plant communities across the Canadian Arctic, Alaska, and Scandinavia over four decades.

Premier Doug Ford's government has given Ontario Power Generation the green light to start construction on Canada’s first small modular reactor, a new nuclear technology to be built next door to the Darlington power plant. 

Scientists who study fish suspect an outbreak of deadly hemorrhagic septicemia (VHS), could be behind the unusually large number of dead fish in Lake Huron this spring.

Methane emissions, a key driver of climate change, remain stubbornly high around the world according to an annual update from the International Energy Agency.

Fifty years ago, the former Soviet Union launched a probe to Venus. However, the rocket engines shut off too early, and the probe became stuck in Earth orbit. Now, it’s making its way back home, and there's the possibility it could make it to Earth's surface.

Researchers at the University of Windsor are testing water samples from areas where millions of migratory birds pass through in order to track a deadly virus.

Scientists have figured out how the body of an 18th-century Austrian vicar has remained so well-preserved for nearly 300 years — and it’s unlike anything they’ve seen before.

A video posted by two tourists who visited Arctic Bay, Nunavut this week where they made negative comments about polar bear hunting has sparked outrage among some Inuit in the territory. 

Toronto's crowded streets will soon see another type of vehicle: self-driving delivery robots — a decision the city had no approval over and a major concern for one councillor whose downtown ward will be affected. 

The black bear population in Ontario has seen significant declines in a few areas of the province, according to a population survey conducted by government researchers, raising concerns about the health of the bears and the impact of hunting them.

The Central Queens Branch of the P.E.I. Wildlife Federation is launching a new project to use a video camera to count how many adult fish are in the West River. This kind of data is crucial to conservation efforts, but right now the information the non-profit group has been using dates back to the 1990s. CBC's Sheehan Desjardins reports.

Dedicated volunteers, combined with strict fishing policies, may be softening the right whale’s decline.

New research shows U.S. policymakers are relying on science more than ever — but that’s where the common ground ends. Johanna Wagstaffe breaks down the data that shows how Republicans and Democrats use science differently to shape their policies.

Two orphaned bobcat sisters were released into the wild near Powell River, B.C., on Friday, 10 months after they were found malnourished near a logging road.

Horses have a distinct type of teeth, and caring for them requires a distinct set of skills. Margaret Craig took up the rare profession of equine dentist. She now travels across Saskatchewan improving horses' oral health.

A recent executive order from U.S. President Donald Trump to invest in deep sea mining operations could have dire environmental consequences, according to a northern Ontario mining expert.