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Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy's wish list for the incoming Trump administration includes oil and gas exploration in the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and reversing restrictions on logging and road-building in a temperate rainforest that provides...

Study finds Indigenous people in B.C. cultivated hazelnuts 7,000 years ago, challenging modern assumptions

The hazelnut tree has long been a part of the landscape in parts of British Columbia. A 19th-century settler gave the village of Hazelton...

Burned forests in Jasper National Park showing signs of life ahead of winter freeze

It's easy to spot contrasts in the forest landscape around Jasper National Park. Countless coniferous trees with thick, deep green branches line roads and...

Elon Musk launches Starship test flight with Donald Trump watching

Elon Musk's SpaceX launched its sixth Starship test flight to space on Tuesday from Texas, eyeing an array of improvements on the rocket as...

As Japan sends a wooden satellite into space, experts say astronauts could one day live in wooden structures

After Japanese scientists launched the world's first wooden satellite into space last week, experts in Canada are proposing ways in which wood could become a...

Court won’t overturn decision to cut quota from N.S., N.B. elver licence holders

Three judges have delivered another blow to beleaguered commercial groups that fish for lucrative juvenile eels in the Maritimes, agreeing with a lower court...

Blind and sighted people alike can learn to ‘see’ with echolocation, study finds

Many technologies exist to assist people who are blind or have limited vision to manage daily life. But even without technology, people — regardless...

This Laurentian University researcher is collecting DNA from the air inside beehives

A professor at Laurentian University in Sudbury will be putting honey bees to work to better understand how climate change is affecting different plants and...

This company wants to cool the planet one balloon at a time. Some scientists aren’t buying it

What On Earth26:55Can we cool Earth by blocking the sun’s rays? And should we?Luke Iseman has a plan to cool the planet, inspired by...

Samples from far side of the moon show history of ancient volcanoes

The first surface samples retrieved from the dark side of the moon show that there used to be erupting volcanoes there, just as there...

1st case of avian flu in Canada confirmed. Health Canada says there are vaccines

Canada's public health agency has confirmed the first case of avian influenza in the country in a B.C. teenager who is in critical condition.In...

Contest invites teams to design a ‘generation starship’ for a 250-year journey

A public contest has opened to design a so-called generation spacecraft that could take humans to distant planets beyond our solar system. This kind...

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