Category: Science & Technology

When Andrew Whitehouse discovered that a housing development was to be built over the home of one of the rarest species on the planet, he made it his mission to put a stop to it. The conservationist from Plymouth, England had Read more …

That cozy mattress you spend thousands of hours sleeping on can become a real nightmare when it shows up at a landfill. Every year, Nova Scotians toss out about 95,000 mattresses, according to a report commissioned by Cumberland Joint Services Management Read more …

When David Saint-Jacques returns Monday after six months in space, he’ll plummet back to Earth in what another Canadian astronaut remembers as a wild ride that felt like swinging on a pendulum out of control. Shortly after 4 p.m. ET in Read more …

Third-generation farmer Ron Lamb remembers his father pulling six-metre-wide crop-seeding equipment around his southern Alberta grain fields in the 1990s, overlapping on each pass to make sure he covered all the ground. “When my dad was seeding the soil, he Read more …

It took a chainsaw and some careful navigation along remote Nova Scotia logging roads, but members of the Annapolis Royal Space Agency retrieved their very special cargo, fresh from space, on Saturday afternoon. A group of students, their teacher and some community Read more …

Edmonton is known as the magpie capital of Canada but a bird of a different feather is flocking to the city. A pod of pelicans has made their homes on the stormwater ponds in Beaumaris and Greisbach neighbourhoods. Local bird Read more …

They are already members of what is probably the world’s tiniest space agency. And they’re hoping that on Saturday, they’ll be able to lay claim to the title of world’s first space artists. The students, staff and community members who Read more …

A pair of controversial environmental bills, including the environmental assessment bill, scaled their final hurdle in the Senate on Thursday over the objections of critics who warn the two pieces of legislation will kneecap Canada’s oil industry and fuel separatist sentiment in Read more …

If you’ve happened to glance up at the sky about an hour after sunset or an hour before sunrise and noticed wispy, electric blue clouds on the horizon, you’ve managed to catch a rare sighting of noctilucent clouds, or NLCs. Read more …

Hello, people! This is our weekly newsletter on all things environmental, where we highlight trends and solutions that are moving us to a more sustainable world. (Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Thursday.) This week: A better, more positive way Read more …