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Tree experts stumped by case of 'elephant trunk'

While out in the woods at Murphys Point Provincial Park near Perth, Ont., in late April, chief park naturalist Mark Read stumbled across a tree unlike any he'd seen in his seven years on the job.

Canada Ottawa May 11

Ontario's plan to overhaul Blue Box program stalls, leaving sector 'on hold'

Kate McGillivray

Canada Toronto May 11

Mastodon dung reveals diet, environment in Nova Scotia some 75,000 years ago

Canada Nova Scotia May 11

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft begins its 2-year trip home with asteroid debris

Thousands of salmon fry released in B.C. river to restore populations devastated by Big Bar landslide

Monday’s effort is part of an ongoing release of 101,000 chinook salmon fry that Fisheries and Oceans Canada says will avoid the early life stage mortality in the first year of a salmon’s life.

Canada British Columbia May 11

Canadians who rely on Line 5 on edge as Michigan's deadline looms to shut Enbridge pipeline

Southern Ontario workers who benefit from Enbridge's Line 5 are anxiously watching what's playing out this week in Michigan, which has given the Calgary-based firm until Wednesday to shut down the pipeline — a move backed by Indigenous groups, but would cut off a major source of fuel for Ontario and Quebec.

Canada Windsor May 11

How COVID-19 vaccines developed in China, Russia and elsewhere could impact the pandemic

Countries such as China, Russia, India and Cuba are developing and distributing their own COVID-19 vaccines, marking a biotechnology milestone for many of them. Here’s a closer look at how they’re doing it and what that means for the world.

Fear of climate change rust belt has governments considering carbon border levy

Business May 10

Cyberattack on U.S. pipeline linked to criminal gang

Business May 10

Electric school buses hit the road in B.C.

Canada British Columbia May 9

Parks Canada caribou captive breeding proposal gets OK from review panel

Canada Edmonton May 9

Scientists seek to understand increase in grey whale deaths on West Coast

Canada British Columbia May 9

China says rocket debris lands in Indian Ocean, but most burns up in atmosphere

Did this message in a bottle really come from the Titanic? Quebec researchers are trying to find out

Franca G. Mignacca

Canada Montreal May 8

Why some say waiving COVID-19 vaccine patents could help fix disparity issues

Genetically modified grass can suck toxic explosives out of the ground

Radio Quirks & Quarks May 7

Dutch researchers train honeybees to detect COVID-19

Blue-green algae to be investigated as possible cause of mystery neurological disease

Canada New Brunswick May 10

Animals 'rarely avoid' mating with relatives, new study says

Radio Quirks & Quarks May 7

Norwegian company develops fully electric motorboats

Listen to the Ingenuity helicopter humming through the Martian air

China says there is little threat of rocket causing harm as it returns to Earth

Bird-like dinosaur could hunt in total darkness, pointing to thriving prehistoric 'nightlife'

Reusable takeout options are popping up across Canada

DNA used to ID sailor from doomed 1845 Franklin Expedition with living relative

Canada Thunder Bay May 7

Free divers stumble upon illegal crab traps off Vancouver beach

Canada British Columbia May 7

Albertans are hot for solar right now, even with the pandemic pinch

Canada Calgary May 7

'Goodwill' money from proposed nuclear waste site pours into declining Ontario farm town. What if it stops?

Canada London May 7

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