3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (825+ words) Earth cooked to its hottest month on record in August, blowing far past a key climate threshold due to the dangerous double whammy of human-caused climate change and a supersized El Niño, according to the European climate service Copernicus. August's…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (274+ words) The first Winnipeg neighbourhood to be entirely serviced by geothermal energy will be Southwood Circle, a development underway by the University of Manitoba's Fort Garry campus. Premier Wab Kinew made the announcement Wednesday morning on CBC Manitoba's Information Radio. "We're…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (79+ words) CBC New Brunswick Museum home to 650-million-year-old fossil The marble slab with embedded stromatolite, or ancient tiny organisms like algae, is the oldest fossil record in Atlantic Canada. - How a Saint John man found the oldest fossils in Atlantic Canada…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (401+ words) The differences between the Mercator, Equal Earth maps The United Nations on Friday voted for a shift away from the 16th-century Mercator global map toward one more accurately reflecting countries' true size, a resolution sponsored by African states to counter…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (654+ words) A public hearing Monday evening into the possibility of more mineral exploration in the Whitehorse copper belt sparked at times fiery arguments. Gladiator Metals wants the city to amend its top land use policy. If successful, certain areas would be…...

3+ week, 4+ hour ago   (452+ words) On the night of Aug. 27-28, a partial lunar eclipse will be visible across the country. The eclipse comes roughly two weeks after the total solar eclipse that was seen across Iceland, Spain and a small portion of Portugal. While this…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (391+ words) The mission to save NASA’s sinking Swift Observatory was called off Wednesday, dooming the telescope to a fiery re-entry later this year. NASA and Katalyst Space Technologies announced the news more than a month after the startup’s Link spacecraft rocketed…...