A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck near the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif early on Monday, killing at least 20 people, injuring hundreds and damaging the city's historic Blue Mosque, authorities said, with the death toll likely to rise.

One of the monkeys that escaped last week after a truck overturned on a Mississippi roadway was shot and killed early Sunday by a homeowner who says she feared for the safety of her children.

As Italy’s vineyards grapple with summers that are longer and hotter, erratic weather and dwindling water, winemakers are being forced to rethink one of the oldest assumptions in their craft: terroir, the delicate interplay of soil, sun, wind, rain and human touch that gives each wine its specific taste.

A master beekeeper in Alberta is putting an insulated hive to the test he says could help a struggling Canadian industry.

For more than 30 years, major nuclear powers have refrained from testing nuclear bombs. But that streak may soon be over as Russia and the U.S. conduct missile tests and threaten to resume explosions of the most powerful weapons ever devised.

Millions of people across the Caribbean are trying to deal with the devastating effects of Hurricane Melissa, which tore through the region this week, slamming into Jamaica as a Category 5 storm. Now, several groups have done a rapid analysis to determine what role climate change could have played.

Researchers at UPEI are experimenting with using sawdust to clean wastewater, and they hope in the future they can use it to remove 'forever chemicals' — like PFAS.

Alberta Fish and Wildlife says a man was mauled by a grizzly bear south of Cochrane, Alta. The bear was subsequently shot by the man's hunting partner.

Avid wildlife photographer Rod Young reported a bull elk in distress to Prince Albert National Park staff, who then tranquilized the animal and freed it from the man-made netting.

Bats don’t exactly have a glowing public image. After all, they’re often associated with blood-sucking vampires, gloomy caves and all things spooky. But migratory bats in Canada are in desperate need of protection, according to researchers.

Jamaica’s decade-long effort to build layers of financial protection in case of natural disasters might help the country access millions of dollars in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Melissa — and provide a model to follow for climate-vulnerable nations elsewhere.

Many of nature’s apex predators guard their dinner from scavengers until they’ve gobbled up every last morsel and licked the bones clean. But polar bars eat what they need, and leave the rest behind for other Arctic critters to munch.

Documentary Empire of Bats nails the coffin shut on vampire bat myths

Residents of a street in Toronto's Leaside neighbourhood say they're fighting a rat infestation brought on by a neighbour who refuses to stop feeding wildlife in her backyard.

Hurricane Melissa’s Category 5 winds tore into western Jamaica Tuesday morning, marking one of the most powerful Atlantic landfalls ever recorded. CBC’s Johanna Wagstaffe looks at how Melissa may be part of a new hurricane era: storms fuelled by record-warm seas and slowed by a shifting jet stream.

Millions of years ago, a pony-sized, hornless rhino wandered through the woods and munched on leaves in what is now northern Nunavut. A new study identities it as a new species, and offers an intriguing explanation for how it got there.

It’s been more than 60 million years since duck-billed dinosaurs roamed around what is now known as western North America. Or, more accurately, since they clomped around. On their hoofs. 

The Alberta government says one grizzly bear has been killed by a member of the Wildlife Management Responder Network, marking the first bear "lethally removed" since that program was implemented last summer.

Landowners in Wine Harbour are speaking up for the first time against the cabinet decision on whale sanctuary project.

Joe Pendry used his experience as a boxer to fight for his life when a mother grizzly attacked and severely injured him in B.C.'s East Kootenay region earlier this month.