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Science A Vancouver-based mining company is looking to sidestep the international agency charged with regulating mining in international waters after lengthy negotiations it says have gone nowhere.  The Metals Company, fed up with sluggish international process, turns to Washington Inayat Singh · CBC News · Posted: Apr 03, 2025 4:00Continue Reading

Science The federal government has ended its carbon pricing for consumers. But what did the carbon tax and rebate actually do for the climate? And now that it’s gone, what impact will that have on emissions? Here’s a closer look. Fuel charge helped drop emissions, but other policies could makeContinue Reading

Science After returning home earlier this month, NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore spoke to the media about their extended nine-month stay on the International Space Station. ‘I wanted to hug my husband and hug my dogs’ astronaut Suni Williams said of her return home Nicole Mortillaro · CBCContinue Reading

Science The industrial carbon pricing system in Canada has come under fire during the federal election, raising uncertainty for companies about whether their investments in lowering emissions will pay off. Uncertainty over the future of industrial carbon pricing hinders investment, analysts say Inayat Singh · CBC News · Posted: MarContinue Reading

Science Attention those in eastern Canada: Do you still have those solar eclipse glasses from last year’s total eclipse? If so, grab them and get up early on Saturday morning for a wonderful sight. In some parts of the country, more than 90 per cent of the sun will beContinue Reading

Science U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign to eliminate diversity efforts and language from government organizations has officially reached the moon, with NASA erasing references to its promise to land the first woman and first person of colour on there from several of its web pages. Space agency cites executive order by Trump; saysContinue Reading

Science Environmental group Greenpeace must pay more than $660 million US in damages for defamation and other claims brought by a pipeline company in connection with protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline’s construction in North Dakota, a jury found Wednesday. Environmental group says its work is ‘never going toContinue Reading

Astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams exit SpaceX capsule aboard recovery vessel NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, whose weeklong mission to the International Space Station unexpectedly stretched into a nine-month stay, returned to Earth on Tuesday as part of a four-person crew aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule. TheContinue Reading

Science Studies on Antarctica have documented how temperatures, glaciers, oceans and wildlife are reacting to the warming consequences of fossil fuel emissions. A place this remote and isolated makes a perfect laboratory for grasping the past, present and future of the Earth’s climate, according to many scientists drawn to thisContinue Reading