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North "It's not normal," said Chuck Gruben in Tuktoyaktuk, where rain fell and temperatures hit zero on Thursday. The Inuvik Tuktoyaktuk Highway in 2017. Unseasonably warm conditions in the region are causing problems for people, and possibly wildlife.(Randall McKenzie/CBC) Unseasonably warm temperatures so far this month are causing Northwest Territories …

Opinion With transportation responsible for a quarter of emissions, it will be hard to meet the federal government’s national pollution targets without addressing Canada’s car conundrum, write Merran Smith and Sarah Petrevan. A man plugs in his Volkswagen e-Golf at a charging station in Peterborough, Ont. Demand for electric vehicles …

Technology & Science·Video The National Science Foundation has released new footage of the collapse of the Arecibo telescope platform, which collapsed Dec. 1 after sustaining irreparable damage earlier in 2020.   Arecibo telescope’s 900-tonne platform collapse caught on camera A remote camera and drone caught the massive Puerto Rican Arecibo …

Technology & Science·What on Earth? In this week’s issue of our environment newsletter, we look at work being done to track plastic waste that ends up in rivers and oceans and a video game that explores the troubled history of water in cities. (Sködt McNalty/CBC)  Hello, Earthlings! This is our …

British Columbia Necropsies of over 50 killer whales over the last decade show that more mammals are dying as a direct result of human behaviours in the Pacific Ocean than previously thought. The 18-year-old male southern resident killer whale, J34, stranded near Sechelt, B.C. on Dec. 21, 2016. A postmortem …

Technology & Science·New China said Thursday its latest lunar probe has finished taking samples of the moon’s surface and sealed them within the spacecraft for return to Earth, the first time such a mission has been attempted by any country in more than 40 years. The Chang’e 5 spacecraft landed …

World New Zealand promised its public sector would become carbon neutral by 2025 as it declared a climate emergency on Wednesday, a symbolic move that critics said needed to be backed with greater actions to reduce emissions. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks in Parliament in Wellington on Wednesday. …

Technology & Science The world's governments plan to produce more than double the amount of coal, oil and gas in 2030 than would be consistent with curbing global warming, the United Nations and research groups said on Wednesday in the latest warning over climate change. Pumpjacks draw oil out of …

Technology & Science·New Singapore has given U.S. startup Eat Just the green light to sell its lab-grown chicken meat, in what the firm on Wednesday said is the world's first regulatory approval for so-called clean meat that does not come from slaughtered animals. A filet of lab-grown cultured chicken developed …

Technology & Science A huge, already damaged radio telescope in Puerto Rico that has played a key role in astronomical discoveries for more than half a century completely collapsed on Tuesday. This photo provided by the Arecibo Observatory shows the damage done by a broken cable that supported a metal …