Girls and boys who were exclusively breastfed showed a reduced risk of early puberty in a large new study from South Korea that Canadian doctors say could apply here.

Want to spot up to six planets at once in the night sky? Look up before dawn for the second and last "planet parade" of the year.

Islanders are being urged to take precautions to prevent the spread of a tree fungus that has now been detected in three areas of P.E.I. 

Fishermen and First Nations are among the many who are celebrating this year's Fraser River sockeye salmon run and its estimated 6.3 million fish.

Proposed changes announced by the federal government regarding the rights of farmers to reuse some types of seeds risk reopening a long dormant debate and have the potential to pit some farmers against large multinational seed companies.

A McGill University undergraduate uncovered the fossil in 2023 during a digging expedition in Alberta’s Dinosaur Provincial Park. The finding sheds light on a 30-million-year gap in the evolution of dragonflies.

A new research partnership between the University of B.C. and Tsleil-Waututh Nation indicates impacts of colonization, including smallpox, overfishing and industrialization, destroyed nearly 90 per cent of the food systems and sources in the Burrard Inlet in Metro Vancouver over a period that extends from 1750 to 1980.

Advances in AI have proved to be effective at predicting where hurricanes will go, but experts say more work is needed before they can thoroughly predict the power of a storm.

Concordia University's student-led space program initially built the Starsailor rocket for a science competition that was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The takeoff from Cree territory on Aug. 15 was the first space launch on Canadian soil in more than 25 years.

Gophers are not a new problem in Saskatchewan. But their booming population is currently wreaking havoc on crops and land.

Grand Falls-Windsor fire Chief Vince MacKenzie says fires are starting to become synonymous with summer in Canada. Kaitlyn Trudeau has been researching that notion, and data from the Climate Shift Index indicates higher average temperatures are a direct result of climate change.

Vast swathes of Canada's forests have burned in recent years. Here's what it takes to replant after a major wildfire.

The public dataset shows 73 per cent fewer waterfowl counted on Toronto's beaches from 2008 to 2024, indicating its waterfronts have become less hospitable to the animals and that the city's efforts to keep birds away from the beaches are working. 

In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we compare the environmental impacts of EVs and gas-powered cars; see how Seville, Spain is beating the heat; and look at the Canadian cities considering gondolas or cable cars as public transit.

Photos of rabbits in Colorado with grotesque, horn-like growths have been circulating on social media. Scientists say the photos are literally viral.

Some researchers say they're concerned about possible political interference in science after Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he'd be "hunting down" scientists who use dogs and cats in medical studies.

Life has not always been easy for Pearl, the world’s oldest living chicken.

According to a recent study, it turns out many people aren't great at identifying which personal decisions contribute most to climate change — and the some of the ones that do, such as owning a pet dog, may come as a surprise.  

Some news publishers say the AI-generated summaries that now top many Google search results are resulting in less people actually reading the news, while experts are flagging concerns about the summaries' accuracy.

A 'magnificent and luminous spiral' streaking across the sky over Quebec on Tuesday night was thought by many to be an unidentified flying object. Turns out it was part of a spacecraft — just not an alien spacecraft.