Science & Climate

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. Almost all countries stopped exploding nuclear bombs in the …

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. Rod Young reported elk entanglement to Parks Canada resource conservation staff. Avid wildlife photographer Rod Young gets to know his subject …

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. Advocates say more needs to be done to protect migratory bats in Canada. Bats …

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. Discovery suggests animals crossed land bridge from Europe much …

Microsoft says users of its Azure cloud portal may be not be able to access Office 365, Minecraft or other services due to issues with its global content delivery network services. Company has acknowledged issues on social media, Azure status page. Microsoft Azure users may be not be able to …

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. Clay impressions from Wyoming’s badlands reveal skin, scales — and, yes, hoofs — in intricate detail. It’s been more than 60 …

Local resident Kevin Geist and his 11-year-old son Andreas discovered the skull two summers ago, spotting a strange black rock along the river’s shoreline in the fossil-rich Peace region. The fossilized skull, which was found as more rocks were exposed by drought, is now being studied by a museum. The …

A Nova Scotia man who fishes in the Minas Basin says he routinely sees the harm that faulty culverts cause fish. More than half of the province’s water crossings cause problems for fish passage, says biologist. A Nova Scotia man who fishes in the Minas Basin says he routinely sees …

A whale-watching company says one of its vessels made contact with a humpback whale that “suddenly and unexpectedly surfaced” in its path while transiting near Vancouver on Thursday afternoon.  Paramedics say they provided emergency medical treatment to four patients on Granville Island. A whale-watching company says one of its vessels …

A U.S. company is proposing to ‘sell sunlight after dark,’ saying it could help power solar farms and provide access to light in emergency situations. Astronomers are not only concerned about what this will do to the night sky, but also to wildlife.  California company wants to launch thousands of …