A chemical company in Sarnia, Ontario is temporarily shutting down after residents of the neighbouring First Nation reported getting sick. Levels of benzene, a cancer-causing chemical, reached alarming levels in Aamjiwnaang First Nation last week. As Carolyn Jarvis reports, the community is still seeking accountability.
The threatened creatures are a keystone species in north Florida, wildlife experts said.
The “rare” visitor was just one of dozens of species spotted during a yearslong survey.
The European Space Agency has released an incredible video of the Sun's roiling surface, which was taken by its Solar Orbiter last year. The video shows strands of energized particles leaving the star's lower atmosphere in the form of "coronal rain," with small eruptions of plasma dotting a fuzzy, "coronal moss" surface — a […]
The man, who was not carrying bear spray, drew a handgun and fired five shots at the charging bear.
Wildlife officials said there was no suitable tree nearby to safely return the downed eaglets to their parents.
Enpro's Roger McKnight says forecasting gas prices lately has been about as challenging as predicting Spring weather in Canada.
WASHINGTON (AP) — An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant— the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild, scientists reported Thursday. Scientists observed Rakus pluck and chew up leaves of a medicinal plant used by people throughout Southeast Asia to treat pain and inflammation. The adult male orangutan then used his fingers to apply the plant juices to an injury on the right cheek. Afterward, he presse
Florida authorities have now identified "several" people caught on camera dumping large buckets of trash into the ocean in Boca Raton.
The scaly predator was discovered on trees, rocks and shrubs in mountain valleys.
The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission rescued the cub, who is currently living with an orphaned baby bear at the Appalachian Wildlife Refuge
May is finally here, bringing us one month closer to the coveted summer months! But the first weekend may not be as nice as you like
This is the adorable moment a cheetah in its enclosure at a zoo in Fort Worth, Texas approaches a girl and is mesmerized by her cheetah plushie on April 27.
Daniel Lingham, 71, had served two prison sentences for his illegal egg collecting before he was caught on a wildlife trap camera last year.
Scientists say the findings could help shed light on how the knowledge of wound medications evolved in humans.
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says Canada's greenhouse gas emissions in 2022 were lower than they have been in 25 years, not including the pandemic slowdown period. (May 2, 2024)
The non-venomous snakes are a "lynchpin species in the longleaf pine ecosystem," which Florida experts are working to restore
EDMONTON — A corporate decision to mothball Canada's largest carbon capture and storage plan is likely the result of financial uncertainty and technological risks, analysts suggest. Capital Power's decision not to pursue its $2.4-billion Genesee project is unlikely to be the first of other such cancellations, said Scott MacDougall of the Pembina Institute, a clean energy think tank. "I think (Genesee) is different enough that I wouldn't extrapolate too much," MacDougall said. But Sara Hastings-S
ZEBALLOS, B.C. — The Fisheries Department says its monitoring and patrolling ocean waters off northwest Vancouver Island to ensure boat traffic doesn't interfere with an orphan killer whale calf's ability to reunite with her extended family. The Fisheries Department says in a statement it will be monitoring the location of the young female orca as she searches for her family in ocean waters near Zeballos, B.C., located more than 450 kilometres northwest of Victoria. The killer whale calf, named
A mass fish die-off in a reservoir in southern Vietnam’s Dong Nai province has shone a new light on soaring temperatures in Southeast Asia.
A River Alyn trustee says she has "never seen anything like this", describing the water as "grey".
