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A group of European scientists have recently proposed an idea to sink mature trees from the vast boreal forest in Canada, Alaska and Russia into the deep Arctic ocean, to store the carbon for centuries to come. Source link

Researchers met with City of Dawson Creek council on Feb. 9 to discuss the potential harms and health outcomes of oil and gas activity in northeast B.C. Dr. Ulrike Meyer, a Dawson Creek, B.C. family physician of more than 30 years, said she’s seen the prevalence of rare cancers at an alarming frequency, and claims […]

NASA is ready to go to the moon. The space agency conducted a successful rehearsal of launch events for the upcoming Artemis II moon mission that will include Canadian Space Agency Jeremy Hansen and NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Victor Glover.  Source link

Nobel Prize Winner and ‘godfather’ of artificial intelligence Geoffrey Hinton warns if AI continues to develop without appropriate guardrails, a worst-case scenario could unfold and lead to human extinction. The solution? He suggests developing AI’s maternal instincts. Source link

The camera operated by the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre, which investigates life in the deepest parts of the world’s oceans, was positioned off the South Shetland Islands near the Antarctic Peninsula. Source link

This football-sized creature could grind its teeth like a hard-core plant-eater, back before that was really a thing — and it may be the earliest vertebrate herbivore ever found. Source link

The French government’s decision to work with the Whale Sanctuary Project marks a reversal of a decision it took in January 2025, when officials rejected its offer, saying the proposed sanctuary wouldn’t be ready in time. Concerns were also raised about cool ocean temperatures. Source link

Snowy owls that once glided across wide open spaces of the Arctic tundra are seeing their homes shrink under thickening shrubs. They face a gauntlet of other threats, all of which decimate their numbers. Yet the raptor’s path to legal protection moves at a sluggish pace. Source link

An orphaned lynx named Lumi has received a diagnosis of trauma-induced epilepsy caused by a brain injury after going for tests in Ontario. Source link

Files obtained through access to information confirm Transport Canada was concerned about forever chemicals, known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), as far back as the 1980s. Source link