Climate change has taken global centre stage in recent months following three reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that paint a dire picture of the future should governments fail to take action on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. But when the discussion turns to modifying our behaviours in order to reduce CO2 emissions in order to keep the…

Tens of millions of voracious purple sea urchins that have already chomped their way through towering underwater kelp forests in California are spreading north to Oregon, sending the delicate marine ecosystem off the shore into such disarray that other critical species are starving to death. It’s similar to what has been reported in B.C. A recent…

A man and a woman who don’t know each other say their privacy has been breached after a mix-up between two telecommunications companies left them with the same phone number. Before even sharing her new number with others, Manar Anani started receiving text messages from several numbers she didn’t recognize. She had just signed up for a text-only phone with…

Teenage Canadian activists are planning to sue the federal government over climate change, claiming Ottawa’s role in perpetuating the crisis violates their fundamental rights. The impending lawsuit from 15 teens across Canada will claim they have “suffered specific, individualized injuries” due to climate change, interfering with their constitutional rights to life, liberty and security of the person. They are also claiming…

For decades bull trout would be removed from a fishing line and left to rot in the sun. Alberta anglers considered the once-abundant fish as unwanted predators, feeding on more favoured trout species such as brook trout and brown trout.  “At the time, they saw the bull trout as a predator on the species they were more…

Google said it has achieved a breakthrough in quantum computing research, saying an experimental quantum processor has completed a calculation in just a few minutes that would take a traditional supercomputer thousands of years. The findings, published Wednesday in the scientific journal Nature, show that “quantum speedup is achievable in a real-world system and is…