Mother plucker: Steel fingers guided by AI pluck weeds rapidly and autonomously
Robot that uses AI to pull weeds may reduce poisonous herbicide use by 70% for some crops.
Canada’s first hydrogen train is taking passengers
The first hydrogen-powered train in North America is taking riders on a two-and-a-half hour trip through central Quebec this summer.
Bear G608 remembered for extraordinary 20,000 km range
Although Rob Gau has worked with many bears across the Northwest Territories, a handful stay firmly lodged in his memory. One of those bears is barren-ground grizzly Bear G608.
British Columbia has a problem: Goldfish as large as a football are rapidly cloning themselves
Goldfish are adaptable, intelligent, and many people’s first pets that, in some cases, end up being flushed down the toilet. And that has become a big problem, as big as a “football,” one might say.
One of North America’s most dangerous invasive species is hitchhiking on fish
Zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) are one of the most catastrophic aquatic invasive species in North America.
Saskatchewan research team aims to bring 30 million bison back to the Canadian Prairies
A team of scientists from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and the University of Saskatchewan is trying to restore the bison to its original place in the prairies.
Seed-Planting Drones Are Reforesting Canada With Lightning Speed
Dropping five seed pods per second into wildfire-scarred lands, aerial reforesting is quickly creating biodiverse forests from the sky.
‘Incredibly intelligent, highly elusive’: US faces new threat from Canadian ‘super pig’
Northern states on alert for invasion of cross-bred pig that threatens flora and fauna – and is difficult to stop For decades, wild pigs have been antagonizing flora and fauna in the US: gobbling up crops, spreading disease and even…
Goodbye plastic, hello wood: Tim Hortons unveils new eco-friendly packaging and cutlery
Timmy’s announcement lands the same day the federal ban on the import and manufacture of single-use plastic came into effect.
Sudden die-off of endangered sturgeon alarms Canadian biologists
The deaths within days of 11 sturgeon, a species unchanged for thousands of years, have puzzled scientists
Canadian conservation group moves thousands of salmon — by hand — so fish can produce millions of eggs
Mill Bay Conservation Society has built a human-propelled salmon run near Victoria, British Columbia
‘Renewable natural gas’ boom coming, advocates say, as companies turn waste into fuel
Chase Edgelow is on a mission to acquire vast quantities of garbage.
Shell’s massive carbon capture facility in Canada emits far more than it captures
The “Quest” plant in Alberta, Canada, owned by oil giant Shell, has previously been touted as a “thriving example” of how CCS is working to significantly reduce carbon emissions.
Experts revive ancient techniques to make concrete more sustainable
A team of experts from EPFL, ETH Zurich, and Archiplein has developed a new type of non-reinforced concrete from stone offcuts. Using methods found in historical archives, the team reduced their use of carbon-intensive cement. They built and tested six load-bearing walls using recovered stone-quarry waste and three types of mortar-based binders.
Long-lost species of golden mole found and photographed for first time
A team of conservationists have rediscovered a species of golden mole that hasn’t been seen in almost 90 years.
Extreme rainfall increases exponentially with global warming
State-of-the-art climate models drastically underestimate how much extreme rainfall increases under global warming, according to a study published Monday
Turning the tide: Vietnam’s war against plastic waste
Vietnam has ambitious targets to tackle the challenge posed by plastic waste. Effective enforcement and implementation are key for success.
UN Chief Calls Antarctica ‘Sleeping Giant… Being Awoken by Climate Chaos’
“It is profoundly shocking to stand on the ice of Antarctica and hear directly from scientists how fast the ice is disappearing.”
