Tag Archives: Science

VICTORIA - A recent study in British Columbia confirms far more people have carried the novel coronavirus than were tested for it, and public health officials say the findings will...

VICTORIA - A new study suggests eight times as many people in Metro Vancouver have been infected by the novel coronavirus than the rate of reported cases. The joint study by researchers at the B....

VANCOUVER - A government-sponsored wolf kill in Western Canada has had "no detectable effect" on reversing the decline of endangered caribou populations, a study says. Scientists from R...

EDMONTON - Four years after its flames guttered out, the record-breaking Fort McMurray wildfire continues to astound - this time with its lasting impact on an extensive river system. "It's actual...

OTTAWA - Canada has joined an international group of nearly two dozen other countries working to protect the world's oceans. The Global Ocean Alliance, founded by Great Britain last year, seeks to pro...

An astonishing trove of century-old photographs of the Rocky Mountains shows those rugged symbols of permanence and endurance are just as mutable as anything else. "Almost all the mountains that we we...

EDMONTON - Grizzly bears are doing their best to get along with people, but it still isn't enough. Newly published research concludes that without large wilderness areas to replenish their number...

The caves are vast, pitch black, full of twists and turns and treacherously tight in spots. New research reveals why ancient inhabitants of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula may have ventured deep into ...

VANCOUVER - White-throated sparrows are changing their tune - an unprecedented development scientists say has caused them to sit up and take note. Ken Otter, a biology professor at the University...

REGINA - A Saskatchewan scientist has named a new species of bee after Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield. Cory Sheffield says he came across a unique looking female bee while cataloguing insect s...