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A 34-year-old national environmental network that has served as a link between people and the federal government shut its doors Friday afternoon after Environment Canada cut its funding…

OTTAWA – L’intention du gouvernement Harper de sabrer dans les dépenses a fait une autre victime…

Président de la République des Maldives, chapelet de quelque 1 200 îles à fleur d'eau, dans l'océan Indien - l'un des pays les plus vulnérables au réchauffement -, Mohamed Nasheed est…

Pour dénouer l'impasse sur les changements climatiques, l'ONU songerait à prolonger le protocole de Kyoto sans ses mauvais élèves.

Since coming to power in 2006, the Harper Conservatives have been as science-friendly as Sarah Palin at a convention of fortune tellers…

The number of recalls involving possibly deadly food products has increased over the past two years, and it's a trend that is likely to continue as Canada's food safety body steps up its monitoring.

OTTAWA — There’s not nearly enough time for the federal government to embark on a newfangled census for 2016 or even 2021 in some cases, says a study commissioned by Statistics Canada.

A coalition representing the most powerful academic, military, scientific and corporate interests…

Canada's environment watchdog slammed the federal government Tuesday...

(Québec) Dans son rapport déposé mardi à la Chambre des communes, le commissaire à l'environnement et au développement durable, Scott Vaughan, déplore le manque crucial d'informations fiables pour s'attaquer aux changements climatiques.

The world's oldest operating nuclear reactor can run until at least 2016 ...

Europe took a major step toward essentially banning oil sands crude…

L'Arctique a pris des airs de pôle sud pour la première fois cette année avec la formation d'un trou géant…

Dans son rapport déposé mardi à la Chambre des communes, le commissaire à l'environnement et au développement…

Le gouvernement fédéral a annoncé dans son dernier budget une série de réinvestissements dans le système de recherche canadien, y compris le financement des trois conseils subventionnaires (IRSC, CRSNG, CRSH), des Chaires de recherche du Canada et de Génome Canada. Ce sont là les organismes habituels qui, généralement année après année, reçoivent des fonds fédéraux pour les distribuer aux chercheurs canadiens au moyen d'un système d'examen des demandes par les pairs.

Le ministre fédéral de l'Environnement Peter Kent a affirmé qu'un rapport paru hier prévoyant que les changements climatiques coûteraient cher au Canada ne fait que confirmer que le gouvernement est sur la bonne voie en aidant les Canadiens à s'adapter au futur climat.

Canada can expect to pay between $21 billion and $43 billion each year by 2050...

OTTAWA — Revelations about the federal government's plan to cut monitoring of the ozone layer have prompted denial at the highest levels of Environment Canada, along with an attempt to pinpoint who blew the whistle, alleges an American atmospheric chemist.

Federal government claims cabinet privilege over three documents the commission's presiding judge had deemed crucial to the hearings...

As the government attempts to squeeze every dollar it can out of the public service…

OTTAWA — Environment Minister Peter Kent's department was slammed Friday for offering a polluted explanation about the science behind its efforts to cut monitoring of the ozone layer, which protects life from the sun's ultraviolet radiation.

Environment Minister Peter Kent was on the defensive Wednesday trying to quell outrage over cuts to an ozone-monitoring program.

OTTAWA—Environment Canada is admitting that a large chunk of its ozone-monitoring program is being cut, but insists that its capacity to measure the earth’s protective layer of gas won’t be hurt...

On September 30, 2011, the University of Ottawa’s new Institute for Science, Society and Policyis hosting the colloquium, Synthetic Biology at the Interface of Science and Policy. This is the first international conference on synthetic biology to take place in the nation’s capital and will bring together experts from academia, government and the NGO sector to discuss the science of synthetic biology and its social and policy implications. The event will also feature a roundtable discussion on synthetic biology and the policy issues to which it gives rise. Supporters and critics of this controversial new technology will exchange ideas in an open and unfettered atmosphere. The keynote speaker is Michele Garfinkel, Adjunct at the J. Craig Venter Institute and Manager of the Science Policy Programme at the European Molecular Biology Organization. The event will be held at the University of Ottawa in Tabaret Hall room 112. (A map is available on the conference website.) For more information and to register for the event please visit the colloquium website

An unusual 'help wanted' advertisement arrived in the inboxes of Canadian scientists last week…

La Journée internationale de la protection de la couche d'ozone sera marquée cette année par la réduction draconienne des ressources fédérales destinées à la surveillance du phénomène dans l'hémisphère nord.

Le gouvernement fédéral s'apprête à abolir des centaines de postes à Environnement Canada, une mesure qui menace la survie du programme international de surveillance de la couche d'ozone. Des employés, des scientifiques et des techniciens ont même commencé à recevoir des lettres annonçant les réductions de personnel.

International scientists are expressing concern that cuts at Environment Canada could hobble a program monitoring ozone, a component of the atmosphere that protects living things from the sun's ultraviolet rays…

A key source of information about the health of the ozone layer above the Arctic looks set to be choked off…

Environment Canada is planning to axe a monitoring network that is key to assessing Earth’s protective ozone layer…

It has been announced that 776 positions will be eliminated at Environment Canada. Senior scientists and their support staff will be reassigned to other government jobs, resulting in the outright cancellation or downsizing of programs such as ozone research, aircraft-based measurements, solar radiation monitoring, climate adaptation, air toxics research, and air quality research and monitoring.

A fisheries biologist has not only been muzzled by the federal government, but her lab could be in trouble as well, Postmedia News has learned.

Possible links between fish farming, disease and the collapse of the 2009 Fraser River sockeye salmon run will be the focus at the Cohen Commission hearings this week in Vancouver.

Newly-elected doctor turned Conservative MP Kellie Leitch is keeping a low-profile on a call for her to work against Canada's asbestos industry.

Four years after Health Canada said it would impose strict limits on trans fats in food products if companies didn't reduce the fat content on their own, the department has failed to move on the promise, hinting challenges facing the industry could stymie the plans.

Some drugs used to treat cancer, infections and other ailments in hospitals could be in short supply, Health Canada says.

Canada — and Ontario specifically — has a number of innovative companies that are turning agricultural and forestry biomass into new products, and in doing so reducing our dependence on petroleum.

While doing salmon-genetics research at the Pacific Biological Station on Vancouver Island, federal fisheries scientist Kristi Miller discovered that a virus may be killing large numbers of Fraser River sockeye before they reach their spawning grounds.

The scientific discoveries that lead to vaccines and life-saving medicines and other products that improve human health do not occur in a vacuum, but instead build upon previous research. Scientists can also learn much from errors in existing research, though such lessons will continue to be hard to come by until scientific journals start doing a better job of explaining why they retract particular studies.

Microbiologist David Lewis knew he might upset the biosolids industry with his research, which suggested that the spreading of sewage sludge on land could make people sick. But he didn't expect his employer, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), not to back him up.

Alberta Conservative leadership candidate Gary Mar says the province must offer private health-care options for wealthy baby boomers or risk losing an economic opportunity.

The Cohen Commission into the decline of Fraser River sockeye salmon stocks will turn its attention to a significant point when hearings resume tomorrow in Vancouver on topics that surround salmon farming.

Obese people who eat well and exercise live just as long as their slimmer counterparts and are less likely to die from heart disease, results from a new study suggest.

An obesity scoring system developed in Edmonton to help predict the risk of dying for overweight and obese people could be used to prioritize patients for weight-loss surgery.

An $8-million federal government marketing campaign designed to raise parental awareness of child health and safety issues appears to have made an underwhelming impression on Canadians.

Last week an adjudicator at the Public Service Labour Relations Board handed down rulings related to three Health Canada scientists that confirm what many Canadians — and international observers — had already concluded: that Canada is not a safe place for honest employees, especially if they work for the federal government.

Canadians have told Canada’s doctors that they want better value for their health dollars through an expanded public system that treats illnesses faster and covers a wider range of services.

The federal government is getting out of the business of inspecting provincial meat plants — a move critics say could put consumers at risk for a paltry annual savings of a few million dollars.

Hundreds of Prairie farmers left their fields Monday and some picked up placards that read "Single desk is the best" and "Our board, our business."

The Public Service Labour Relations Board has ordered Health Canada to reinstate an Ottawa whistleblower scientist it fired seven years ago. However, it rejected grievances by two other scientists fired the same day.

The union representing three former Health Canada scientists says it is disappointed by a labour board decision that resulted in a victory for only one of the workers.

Health Canada is warning doctors that they shouldn’t be using their personal websites to promote drugs, medical procedures or other health products.

University of Regina researcher Mathew Fetzner has seen the mental toll that war can have. The 27-year-old is now a doctoral student in the university's psychology department, but was once a military man himself.

Meteorologists, scientists, chemists and engineers are among more than 700 Environment Canada employees on the chopping block as the department launches sweeping cuts to cope with federal belt-tightening.

A new drug, recently approved by Health Canada, brings a cure closer for the 250,000 hepatitis C sufferers across Canada. Boceprevir — brand name victrelis — when added to current standard therapy has been shown to have higher cure rates in studies published early this year by the New England Journal of Medicine.

Vancouver health officials will distribute new crack pipes to drug users this fall as part of a pilot project aimed at reducing the transmission of diseases such as hepatitis C.

When it comes to moderating the impact of its citizens on the environment, Canada trails many peer countries, to the point of sometimes going backwards while others move forward, according to a Conference Board analysis

One death has been reported in a U.S. outbreak of salmonella infections that U.S. officials say were likely caused by eating ground turkey.

So many social and environmental problems. So little money. That is the challenge facing groups and individuals dedicated to tackling climate change and entrenched poverty at a time when governments are feeling constrained by public debt and rising deficits.

Last week U.S. lawmakers decided that President Barack Obama must make a decision sooner than he wanted to on construction of the $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline, which would deliver bitumen — thick, tarry oil — from northern Alberta to refineries on the Gulf Coast.

Global warming is the world’s greatest environmental challenge and Canada is falling behind the United States in reducing the pollution from industry that is causing the problem, say newly released briefing notes prepared for Environment Minister Peter Kent.

A newly released report commissioned by Canada’s energy regulator has concluded that clean-up efforts for an offshore oil spill in the Arctic could be impossible at least one day in five because of bad weather or sea ice.

An internal federal report is raising questions about the value of some recent government spending on clean energy initiatives, including hundreds of millions of dollars in research funding for the fossil fuel industry that has produced few reductions in emissions.

Alberta will spend up to $1 million to track the experience of people with multiple sclerosis, particularly those who have had the controversial treatment introduced by Italian doctor Paolo Zamboni.

An Asian beetle that has been killing ash trees in Ontario and the United States has been found for the first time in Montreal, where it now threatens thousands of trees of that species on the island.

The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada believes that the Privy Council bureaucrats should not "muzzle" Canada's top federal scientists.

The union representing tens of thousands of federal scientists says the Conservative government is unfairly silencing its members. The comments come after Kristi Miller, a researcher for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, was banned from discussing her work with the media.

Arctic towns fed up with the Nunavut government's poor record on health care want the territory to shift more control over services to them.

Canada’s national parks agency is a world leader in developing technology and best practices to explore and preserve ecosystems. Its expertise ranges from underwater archeology to sniffer-dog innovation.

Top bureaucrats in Ottawa have muzzled a leading fisheries scientist whose discovery could help explain why salmon stocks have been crashing off Canada's West Coast, according to documents obtained by Postmedia News.

It was a bittersweet moment, a time of pride in the country's accomplishments as well as sadness at a possibly uncertain future for the Canadian space program.

The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada believes that the Privy Council bureaucrats should not “muzzle” Canada’s top federal scientists.

During the Age of Enlightenment, from about 1650 to 1800, the physical sciences flourished when intellectual exchanges became freed from political and religious dogma. Scientific journals sprang up and science academies were founded. Sir Isaac Newton published his findings on gravity and the three laws of motion.

Married with three children, Mary Ellen lives in the Bronx, N.Y., and likes hiking in the Adirondacks. But until she learned how to manage her Type 2 diabetes, she was tired and hungry all the time.

Climate change is generating extreme weather events that threaten global security, the UN chief said Wednesday as the Security Council recognized the issue's potential effect on world peace.

Science has gone hand-in-hand with democracy since the founding of the republic, and it continues to be a powerful tool for helping to promote wise public policy, a former AAAS Science & Technology Policy fellow said in the 2011 Robert C. Barnard Environmental Lecture.

Environment Canada has released the second of two phases of a proposed environmental monitoring plan for the oil sands, and one need only look at the second name on the list of authors on the first page to understand its significance: Dr. David Schindler.

Health Canada cannot always uphold its safety and nutritional quality standards for foods because of a "legal loophole" that allows companies to sell snacks and drinks fortified with vitamins and minerals, internal government records suggest.

Biodiversity is deteriorating at an "unprecedented rate" due to urban and industrial development that's putting Canada's economic and ecological health in jeopardy, Environment Minister Peter Kent was warned in newly-released "secret" briefing notes.

Canada’s manufacturing industry typically conjures images of machinery, steel, cars and technology. These sectors are vital not just because their health is critical to the country’s economy, but because they have come to define what Canada is, and what it brings to the world.

Recently, Gilles Patry, president of the Canada Foundation for Innovation, offered his take on the three drivers of innovation: a healthy private sector that has science, technology and innovation strategies at its core; universities that produce strong talent; and researchers and workers who recognize and seize the opportunity to work smarter and more creatively.

Canadian researchers will receive $2.9 million to investigate prion diseases such as mad cow and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

Natural gas is not a "transition" fuel to a low-carbon energy future, says a report from two of Canada's most respected environmental think-tanks.

Two days after Australia decided to go with a carbon tax to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, Canada's CEOs released a report calling on the federal government to bring in a national energy policy and provide what industry calls "regulatory certainty" so it can get on with the job of planning new investment -- while meeting Canada's environmental objectives.

The census story is a train wreck in slow motion; the latest car to pile on the flaming ruins is the recent report that Statistics Canada has resigned itself to accepting incomplete responses to the National Household Survey (NHS).

Ask oil industry proponents about the need for a national energy strategy and they’ll invariably raise the ill-fated Mackenzie Valley Pipeline. If Western Canada is going to increase production of oil sands crude and unconventional natural gas as much as anticipated by the industry, it will need significant additional pipeline capacity to reach new markets in the United States and Asia.

Just over a year ago, the federal government announced a plan to regulate greenhouse gas pollution from some of the dirtiest sources of energy in Canada -coal power plants. While the rules aren't scheduled to take effect for four years, the government promised to guard against any efforts to rush new plants into service ahead of their start date.

NASA's space shuttles have been an integral part of Canada's space program, and how Canadian astronauts will get into space after they retire is still up in the air.

The July 8 liftoff of the space shuttle Atlantis will be one for the history books, the last launch of its kind, coming 30 years after Columbia's maiden voyage in 1981. But it's by no means the end of the space age, according to veteran Canadian astronaut Col. Chris Hadfield, despite what some observers are saying.

To try to beat back criticism for being an environmental laggard in the oilsands, a new report says the Alberta government needs a new provincewide pollution monitoring system and an independent environmental commission.

Oil sands producers in Alberta can’t but help notice the nearly $20 per barrel spread between landlocked West Texas Intermediate and global prices such as Brent Crude.

NDP MP Pat Martin, who has been fighting to ban asbestos mining in Canada ever since he was elected to the House in 1997, and who has been waging a vocal battle in the House against the federal government’s controversial support for it, has his own personal asbestos story.

Scientists have come up with a possible explanation for why the rise in Earth's temperature paused for a bit during the 2000s, one of the hottest decades on record.

A number of organizations are warning that proposed cuts by the federal government to environment-related spending will have a detrimental effect on the country’s freshwater.

Environment Minister Peter Kent, who was appointed to the job in January, has met more in that time with environmental groups than previous environment ministers in this government, but there are still no signs the government will take a stronger lead to fight catastrophic climate change, environment critics say.

A deadly outbreak of a highly contagious superbug has claimed the lives of 15 patients in Southern Ontario, raising questions about whether enough is being done to prevent and control the spread of hospital-acquired infections.

Local food is going national in Canada. Driving the movement is Lori Stahlbrand, a journalist-turned-food-advocate who has spent the last six years and several million donor dollars animating her dream of creating an alternative food system that stars environmentally- and animal-friendly Canadian farmers.

Rod MacRae, a York University food expert and director of standards development at Local Food Plus, crunched the numbers to compare the environmental and economic ripple effects of buying food produced within 200 kilometres of four major Canadian cities versus food transported from Florida or California.

British Columbia's carbon tax reaches its third anniversary on Canada Day, and that means paying another penny more per litre of gasoline for the fight against global warming.

The British university at the center of the "Climategate" affair must allow independent researchers access to its closely guarded archive of global temperature records, Britain's information watchdog has ruled — a postscript to the scandal which rocked the world of climate science.

This year’s census and the controversial voluntary household survey accompanying it are expected to cost a total of $660-million from planning and preparation to end stages in 2015, Statistics Canada says.

The Harper government is looking to regulate the technology used to control oil industry emissions, in a move aimed at demonstrating Ottawa is determined to deal with the oil sands’ carbon footprint.

Organizations representing generic and brand-name drug companies are taking jabs at each other following last week's release of the annual report of the Patented Medicine Price Review Board.

A coalition of Atlantic Canadian environmental groups says the region's governments have to be more aggressive in dealing with greenhouse gas emission

The federal government will pump $13 billion into expanding Australia's clean and renewable energy sector as part of its carbon pricing policy.

In December, another alphabet soup congregation on climate change will meet in Durban, South Africa to discuss efforts to reduce global carbon dioxide emissions. Durban may be a fine city. But if the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change wants a dose of reality regarding carbon emissions, it should convene in Hanoi.

A one-of-a-kind pod of about 200 'resident' eastern Pacific grey whales, which spends every summer feeding near Vancouver Island while the 20,000 other members of the species continue their epic annual migration between Mexico and the Alaska, could hold the key to the evolutionary history of the majestic mammal — and to its future in the age of climate change — according to a new study.

When Anil Dash needed a new mobile phone, he asked his Twitter followers and Facebook friends for suggestions. He received several recommendations, but he was surprised by a response that included a link to a paper listing popular mobile phones and how much radiation they emit. That experience showed Dash how social networks can help people not only answer questions but also consider issues related to their questions that may not have occurred to them otherwise.

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard came out fighting over her contentious pollution tax Saturday, warning the “freedom to pollute our skies” was over, ending 20 years of denial and delay.

The Quebec government has won plaudits from environmentalists for its ambitious climate-change plan announced this week. But economists are skeptical about how effective it will be.

Australia's government on Friday secured the final crucial vote needed to introduce a carbon tax, which will put a price on greenhouse gas emissions from the nation's top companies and help cut 160 million tonnes of emissions by 2020.

People have a right to know if their food is genetically modified, even if nobody can prove such modification causes health risks, University of Guelph professor Sylvain Charlebois said Wednesday.

Canada's Environment Minister, the Honourable Peter Kent, announced today that the proposed Eider Rock Project, Marine Terminal, Saint John Harbour in New Brunswick is not likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects. The Minister has referred the project back to the responsible authorities, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Transport Canada and Environment Canada, for appropriate action.

The first international guidance document on labelling genetically modified foods -approved by consensus Tuesday by a body composed of the world's food safety regulators -prompted bickering Wednesday over whether it represents a boost for countries wanting to bring in mandatory labelling of GM food.

The federal government is getting top marks over its plan to manage toxic chemicals in consumer products and industrial activity in all categories except for the oil and gas sector, says a new report to be released Thursday.

Yesterday nearly 50 civil society organizations sent a letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper decrying the cuts to Environment Canada and outlining serious concerns about the impacts the cuts will have on water.

Environment Canada staff advised incoming cabinet minister Peter Kent that Canadians believe Ottawa is too soft on businesses and individuals that harm the world around them.

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has logged 100 different incidents and accidents on federally regulated Canadian oil and gas pipelines over the past two years, new documents released to Postmedia News reveal.

Knowledge of safety issues related to consumer products is "quite limited" in Canada, a new government-commissioned survey suggests.

The Canadian delegation at an international summit admitted Thursday it agrees with the work of a United Nations scientific panel that wants limits placed on the export of chrysotile asbestos, but Canada still won't back the move.

Prominent scientists, environmentalists and groups issued a statement addressed to Prime Minister Stephen Harper today decrying cuts to Environment Canada and the impact they will have on Canada's freshwater sources.

Saying it has been a "moving experience" to hear from MS patients and their families, Aglukkaq said there is now enough preliminary scientific evidence to move ahead government-funded clinical trials into so-called liberation therapy.

Energy and water shortages combined with climate change could provoke wars within the next 15 years, warns an analysis by the Department of National Defence.

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May is accusing Stephen Harper of letting ideology dictate job cuts to climate scientists at Environment Canada. And she is calling on Environment Minister Peter Kent to reverse them.

Australia's scientists say their country's climate debate - never exactly rarefied - has descended into hysterics and extremism, partly driven by the nation's polarised media.

It is being described as one of the greatest accomplishments in biology in the past 100 years – the creation of a knockout mouse gene library. And it is almost completed.

The health of the world's oceans is declining much faster than originally thought — under siege from pollution, overfishing and other man-made problems all at once — scientists say in a new report.

Un fascinant débat enflamme la blogosphère écolo (d'expression anglaise) depuis quelques jours : le Groupe intergouvernemental d’étude sur le climat (GIEC) peut-il faire une place, parmi les «auteurs principaux» de ses rapports, à des activistes verts ?

This is a crucial time because science and innovation are essential drivers of productivity growth as our economy enters a period of massive structural change.

Un parasol géant dans l'espace ou des tours pour capter le CO2: les scientifiques de l'ONU vont... vont regarder à la loupe les options technologiques envisagées pour lutter contre le réchauffement climatique alors que les négociations internationales patinent toujours.

Six mois pour sauver le protocole de Kyoto et avec lui une partie de la crédibilité des négociations sur le climat: la mobilisation est lancée pour trouver une formule satisfaisante pour toutes les parties avant la conférence de l'ONU à Durban, en Afrique du Sud.

Les États insulaires, menacés par la montée des océans, ont indiqué vendredi être prêts à discuter d'un protocole de Kyoto allégé, impliquant moins de pays industrialisés, plutôt que d'assister à «l'effondrement du système» de la lutte contre le changement climatique.

He didn’t mention Canadian policy, but his meeting with Flaherty comes at a time when the NRC and other federal science departments are being pushed to do more applied science and less basic work.

Offshore board cites safety, fishery, territorial, native concerns over proposed oil exploration well in Gulf of St. Lawrence Newfoundland and Labrador's offshore regulator wants the federal government to decide the contentious issue of whether to open the fish-rich Gulf of St. Lawrence to oil drilling.

Un impact n’attend pas l’autre. C’est maintenant au tour des fluctuations de neige sur les sommets des Rocheuses de pouvoir être associées à nos gaz à effet de serre.

Contenir le réchauffement climatique sous la barre des 2°C passe par la réduction des émissions de CO2, mais aussi par la généralisation rapide des mesures pour lutter contre la pollution de l'air (ozone et suie), selon une étude internationale présentée mardi.

Companies from around the world with trillions in assets are being urged to be more transparent about the financial risks surrounding their dependence on water.

Health Canada ignored a recommendation from its own experts in food and health product safety to launch a special probe into possible risks associated with pre-mixed alcoholic energy drinks, internal records show.

Le Canada a dû répondre à plusieurs questions embarrassantes à la conférence des Nations unies sur le climat à Bonn, en Allemagne, hier.

The Rocky Mountain snowpack has been dwindling at an almost unprecedented rate for the past 30 years, according to an international research team.

The news that Australian climate scientists were relocated into secure offices after receiving death threats and abusive e-mails became a political issue in parliament this week.

The federal government has told the international community that its policies to reduce heat trapping pollution linked to global warming are up to 10 times more effective than what it told Parliament at the beginning of the month.

Le gouvernement Harper a l'intention de fermer les centres de recherche et sauvetage de Québec et de Saint John's, à Terre-Neuve. Ces centres, qui traitent les appels de détresse, sont la responsabilité de Pêches et Océans Canada.

The health of Canadians could be at risk because Health Canada doesn't know if it is doing enough surveillance and inspections to ensure medical devices are safe and effective, the Office of the Auditor General says.

Fisheries and Oceans Canada plans to cut 275 positions from the ranks of some 11,000 employees, but fishing industry leaders are worried that the management and rebuilding of fish stocks will be abandoned as a result.

Prince Edward Island's fisheries minister says budget cuts at the federal Fisheries Department will hurt efforts to make the fishery sustainable.

Newfoundland and Labrador's fisheries minister will fly to Ottawa for a Thursday meeting with his federal counterpart to talk about budget cuts.

La logique économique commande de ne pas investir tous ses oeufs dans les énergies renouvelables... mais intermittentes

As Europe is being hit hard by a vicious E. coli outbreak, world health authorities are realizing their own food safety systems may not be adequate to manage emerging risks. In Canada, we might assume that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency would better deal…

Canadians may abhor the rising price of gasoline, but Thomas Stocker suggests the planet might be better off if it soared to "three to four" times its current level.

Environment Canada did not fill in when the Department of Fisheries and Oceans stopped monitoring for pesticides

A structural reorganization of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, meant to make the agency more efficient, led to confusion within government and a reduced ability to protect the environment…

Plus de 90% des forêts tropicales, cruciales pour l'avenir du climat et de la biodiversité, «sont mal gérées, voire pas du tout», estime l'Organisation internationale des bois tropicaux (OIBT) dans un rapport publié mardi.

Le saumon transgénique ne trône pas encore sur les glaçons des poissonneries. Ni aux États-unis ni en Asie ou en Europe. Mais outre-Atlantique ce n’est plus qu’une question de semaines ou de mois. Pour la première fois sera introduit dans la chaîne alimentaire humaine un animal transgénique. Faut-il s’inquiéter?

Gaz de schiste, conférence sur les changements climatiques, universités et entreprises, implication sociale, écoquartiers : qu’ont en commun tous ces sujets?

Si même 2010 a été une année propice à produire davantage de gaz à effet de serre, on peut se demander ce qu’il en sera quand les grands pays seront sortis de la récession... et quand la Chine et l’Inde auront rattrapé l’Occident!

L’Agence de santé publique du Canada promet de rendre publiques les informations relatives aux experts qu'elle consulte, notamment en matière de vaccination et d'achat de médicaments…

Last week I was surprised to come across a paper published in Nature that claims species extinction rates have been overstated.

The Public Health Agency of Canada is looking to make public the drug company affiliations — and therefore any potential conflict of interest — of its expert advisers.

The IPCC foresees swiftly expanding alternative energy, defines cookstoves as "renewable" and omits nuclear.

Canada has once again missed an international deadline for submitting an inventory of its greenhouse gas emissions to the United Nations.

In the United States, companies selling peanut butter are allowed to decide the size of the jar. In Canada, they're not.

What an election! Historic and crazy (…) But what does it all mean for science policy?

While neither the environment nor energy has been a top issue during the Canadian election campaign, the broad consensus that has emerged to reform fossil fuel subsidies could prove to be significant for Canada and the world — if the next government acts to champion this issue internationally as well.

L'actualité nous rappelle tous les jours que les questions scientifiques et environnementales sont déterminantes pour la société. Elles ont pourtant été absentes de la campagne électorale fédérale. 
 
Notre débat souligne ces enjeux passés sous silence.

La recherche fondamentale a été délaissée par le gouvernement.

OTTAWA — The federal government has suspended inspection activities indefinitely that were meant to make sure food companies and restaurants don't mislead consumers with underweight products or exaggerated nutrition claims, Postmedia News has learned.

Une étude d'Environnement Canada juge sévèrement la stratégie conservatrice dans la lutte contre la pollution.

Serez-vous surpris d’apprendre que le mot « science » ne revient qu’en une vingtaine d’endroits dans les programmes des cinq principaux partis canadiens?

Dear Misters Harper, Ignatieff, Layton, and Duceppe, and Ms May: the Canadian Science Writers’ Association (CSWA) represents science journalists, communicators, publicists and authors—500 and growing.

The Conservative party's approach to tackling industrial pollution would be the most costly for governments, tthe most damaging to the economy and the least effective at cleaning up the atmosphere, says a federal government analysis of climate change policies.

Le trou dans la couche d'ozone au-dessus de l'Antarctique, qui se forme chaque printemps austral, joue un rôle important dans les changements climatiques, selon des travaux publiés jeudi qui établissent pour la première fois un lien entre ces deux phénomènes.

Environmental activists have long warned that waning biodiversity means the loss of such ecological services as stream-cleaning, control of pests and diseases and increased productivity in fisheries.

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À quand remonte la dernière fois que vous avez entendu un politicien parler de science ?

Alors que le ministre de l'Environnement du Canada, John Baird, parle de changements climatiques au Mexique avec ses homologues du reste du monde, les chercheurs fédéraux sont encore sous le coup d'une procédure administrative qui les empêche de répondre directement aux journalistes.

Scientists with the National Research Council have a history of doing research that results in new products and technology, including work that helped build a billion-dollar canola industry in this country.

There's radical change at the National Research Council, Canada's biggest science institute, as the new president orders all staff to direct research toward boosting economic development and technology, with less time for pure science.

When a federal commission investigating the collapse of Fraser River sockeye stocks heard recently that a Fisheries and Oceans scientist who has done groundbreaking research was being silenced, it gave Jeffrey Hutchings a bad case of déjà vu.

Une étude menée par un institut de recherche allemand montre que la couche d'ozone au-dessus de l'Arctique aurait fondu de moitié dans les dernières semaines. Avec l'arrivée du printemps, la destruction des molécules d'ozone pourrait s'accélérer et affecter les populations plus au sud, dont la nôtre.

My life as a scientist got its boost in the United States. I was attending college in Massachusetts in 1957 on a scholarship when the Soviet Union launched the first Sputnik satellite.

With a federal budget battle showdown underway, science looks like collateral damage, say former federal officials,...

Entre scientifiques et journalistes, il y a un gros malentendu : celui voulant que le « mauvais journalisme » se résume à de « l’ignorance »…

Bien qu'ils n'obtiennent plus de financement dans les prévisions budgétaires 2011-2012, certains programmes pour l'environnement arrivés à échéance ...

The British Government is too hesitant to ask the advice of its own scientific advisers and other scientists while preparing to deal with national emergencies. And the British public may end up paying for that reluctance, says a report published today by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee.

The Harper government is projecting some major cuts to several of its environmental initiatives, including climate change and clean air…

Le nombre de Canadiens qui croient à la valeur scientifique des changements climatiques dépasse considérablement celui des résidents des Etats-Unis…

We talk a great deal about the science of climate change, but that is only one part of the story. Science presents us with a situation (climate change) that we must evaluate…

L'exploitation des gaz de schiste commence à se heurter en France à une forte contestation, qui rejoint celle qui est menée au Québec depuis des mois…

Le rapport, intitulé Climate Change Scenarios – Implications for ... -L'augmentation des affectations aux catégories «d'actifs sensibles au climat» aidera à ...

Maggie Koerth-Baker, science editor of BoingBoing.net, gave a really good talk at the University of Wisconsin aiming to encourage scientists to communicate effectively with other human beings. A starting point: listening. ...

Global warming has the potential to make what we eat more dangerous and expensive, and the world already is feeling the effects, according to experts.

Soviet Sputnik satellite launch in 1957 threatened American pre-eminence. Now Beijing poses a similar danger, says Obama adviser

La nouvelle est tombée durement le 1er février dernier. Certains ne l'ont peut-être pas vraiment remarqué, mais il s'agit d'un autre coup dur pour la R&D québécoise.

Australia’s chief scientist, Penny Sackett, has resigned half way through her five-year appointment.

The US president's chief science adviser says the nation's current efforts to tackle climate change are insufficient in the long-term.

Proposals to raise Europe's ambitions on tackling climate change have been strongly boosted by a new analysis …

In the recent attack, hackers then posing as the federal government executives sent emails to departmental technical staffers, ...

Mes excuses, d'abord, chers lecteurs, si j'ai déjà employé ce titre, mais c'est plus fort que moi. C'est l'image qui me vient toujours en tête lorsqu'une nouvelle controverse éclate entre le gouvernement Harper et l'appareil d'État.

BP and Imperial Oil executives appeared before a parliamentary committee Tuesday to defend the companies' use of a coast guard ship for research that could help them drill in the Arctic.

Researchers from Boston University School's of Medicine (BUSM), Management (SMG) and Law (LAW), along with collaborators from the National Institutes of Health, believe that public-sector research has had a more immediate effect…

AAAS Annual Meeting, 17-21 February, Washington, D.C Accelerating climate change is inevitable with implications for animal products and crops. Developing countries in tropical and subtropical regions are likely to fare the worst.

Current responses to climate change are failing to manage effectively the full range of climate security risks.

Everyone make mistakes, including scientists. Should we trust our science with those who admit to and correct them, or with those who deny and ignore them?

UK science funding bodies have learned that they will have to absorb cuts of 41% to their capital expenditure.

Dernièrement, nous apprenions que le gouvernement fédéral retarderait encore...

Le ministre canadien de l'Environnement, Peter Kent, a défendu, vendredi, le bilan environnemental…

Dans son discours sur l'état de l'Union, formulé mardi, le président Obama...

Le système québécois de la recherche s'est mis en place au cours de plusieurs décennies et rien n'indique que les structures actuelles, dont certaines ont à peine dix ans, soient déficientes

St. Lawrence River fish are loaded with antidepressant drugs such as Prozac

A geologist born and raised in Canada is slated to take on a key role in the European Research Council (ERC) …

GENÈVE - L'année 2010 rejoint 2005 et 1998 en tête du palmarès des années les plus chaudes des annales…

A biologist at the University of Quebec in Rimouski who uncovered why so many birds nest in the Arctic has been named researcher of the year for 2010 by Radio-Canada.

On January 4, President Barack Obama signed the Food Safety Modernization Act into law...

ABOU DHABI (AFP) - Le secrétaire général des Nations unies, Ban Ki-moon a appelé lundi à une révolution dans le domaine des énergies propres…

A Saskatchewan report that the world's first commercial carbon capture project is failing could be grave news for those involved in efforts to blunt humanity's contribution to climate change.

Giffords was an active member of the House Committee on Science and Technology. She served as the chair of the subcommittee on space and aeronautics until ...

WASHINGTON - Une équipe internationale de chercheurs a indiqué jeudi que l'atmosphère terrestre continuait à maintenir sa capacité à s'auto-nettoyer…

Seventeen of the 30 science and engineering jobs in the list rank in the top 50. Physicists, sociologists and aerospace engineers are all in the top 20...

Les scientifiques ont été surpris de la rapidité avec laquelle des bactéries ont digéré le méthane libéré dans le golfe du Mexique…

POPULAR with foreigners looking for sun, sea and samba, Brazil wants to turn itself into a hot destination for seekers of science.

A consumer advocate says he's shocked about an alleged "loophole" in Canadian law

Spending cuts and political battles loom on the horizon...

Natural disasters cost the insurance industry $37 billion (US) last year a new calculation shows...

A budget crisis in the American government is threatening the country’s domination in science and technology that could weaken research investment just as other countries such as China are boosting scientific spending, according to US experts.

A researcher says storms like the ones the Maritimes have experienced for the last several weeks may be due to climate change.

For many of the heads of state who had attended a climate change summit for the first time in Copenhagen, it was a wake-up call to the importance of the ...

A rose by any other name may not smell as sweet if you're a scientist trying to find published research about a particular plant...

La décision du gouvernement Harper d'abolir le long formulaire de recensement, adopté par décret le 12 août 2010...

La mise en place d'un système d'encadrement intégré est urgente, conclut un groupe d'experts…

Le ministre canadien de l'Environnement, John Baird, a dévoilé mardi matin à Ottawa le rapport du groupe consultatif sur les sables bitumineux…

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy on December 17 released its long-delayed guidance to agencies on implementing President Obama’s March 2009 memo on scientific integrity.

The man in charge of making sure Canada's food is safe says the system is effective

(Ottawa) L'intense lobbyisme d'Ottawa contre la norme californienne pour le carburant à faible teneur en carbone …

It has been nearly two years since Maple Leaf Foods agreed to compensate victims of a deadly nationwide outbreak

It's hard to know whether the food you're buying at the grocery store is safe say critics...

We know the discoveries of science can transform the world. Yet some, it seems, would disagree. Some would challenge the very legitimacy of science.

WASHINGTON — Hungry polar bears gathering along the tundra, twice as many record-breaking temperatures and stronger hurricanes are among the latest signs of climate change, scientists say.

La science-fiction est devenue simplement science, apres qu'un groupe de chercheurs eut trouve un moyen de contenir de l'antimatiere…

Un projet de loi de l'opposition pour faire face aux changements climatiques a été rejeté mercredi au Sénat, quelques jours avant la prochaine ronde de négociations sur le sujet de l'Organisation des Nations unies (ONU) au Mexique.

Hundreds of US scientists are joining a mass effort to speak out on climate change, experts said Monday after skeptics gained political ground with last week's Republican gains in Congress.

OTTAWA—The federal food safety watchdog is still unable to say how many full-time inspectors work in ready-to-eat meat plants ...

Si plusieurs des nouveaux élus aux États-Unis font déjà frissonner les écologistes pour leurs positions radicalement climato-sceptiques, voire anti-science …

Political shifts will produce a fresh set of skirmishes over science issues ranging from stem cells to spaceflight. And when it comes to climate change, the skirmishes could well escalate into a war over science. ...

Moratorium on schemes to reduce global warming clashes with reports urging more research.

Just how anti-science is the Tea Party, and how will that make itself felt once governance begins?

Disinformation about the state of climate change science is extraordinarily – if not criminally – irresponsible, because the consensus scientific view is ...

Les banquiers sauveront-ils la biodiversité? Les graines sont plantées... mais il faudra peut-être attendre longtemps.

Cette fois, l'affaire est sérieuse et il n'y aura pas d'échappatoire. La décision du BAPE sur l'exploitation du gaz de schiste et ses suites

International leadership based on sound science can lead to great results. For proof, we need only “look up, look way up,” as one of my colleagues at CBC used to say. The ozone layer is no longer shrinking.

November 4, 6 pm, Parliament Hill Featuring: Dan Gardner, Lawrence Martin and Armine Yalnizyan

Au mois de juin dernier, le gouvernement fédéral a décidé d'abolir le formulaire long du...

A revised research spending plan won't meet the challenges Britain faces from its international competitors or from climate change...

Complaints about federal scientists being muzzled have been voiced by groups ranging from science journalists to the union representing thousands of federal scientists in recent months.

The union that represents federal government scientists is speaking out about what it sees as the government’s declining respect for science…

La semaine dernière avait lieu à Montréal un congrès de trois jours sur la science et la politique…

OTTAWA — The food industry has had long enough to voluntarily reduce trans fats in their products and now it's time for mandatory regulations, according to the former head of the federal government's task force on trans fat.

À Vancouver, la commission d'enquête publique Cohen se penche à partir de lundi sur les raisons qui ont provoqué le déclin de la population de saumons sockeye en 2009 en Colombie-Britannique.

Ottawa, ON - The Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame has announced the names of four Canadian scientists are joining the 44 scientists and innovators previously inducted into the hall…

When the Cohen Commission inquiry into the decline of sockeye salmon in the Fraser River opens evidentiary hearings...

The Harper government, to its credit, put in a great deal of money to fund Canada's participation in the International Polar Year, 2007-2008…

The failure of recent climate change talks shows the need for scientists to get more involved in diplomatic relations concerning global problems, say former Canadian and U.S. diplomats.

Risking skepticism over science is a threat to conservation efforts, renowned primatologist Jane Goodall said in Calgary Thursday.

The White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is in court over its failure so far to put forward recommendations to ensure scientific integrity in government.

The doomsayers predicted we'd fail, but with very little time and a massive effort we scientists have shown that united we really can get results…

Settlement freezes science research spending at £4.6bn – equating to a 10% cut after inflation. Universities will be urged to make up the shortfall in science funding through efficiency savings…

Octobre faste au Québec : deux congrès sur les échanges entre science et politique, l’affaire du recensement qui n’en finit plus de rebondir et des chercheurs qui s’inquiètent de la fusion des organismes subventionnaires…

Le syndicat représentant les scientifiques du gouvernement fédéral vient de lancer un site web pour mettre en valeur la science publique « au service du bien collectif ».

Evidence based planning has taken a hit in Canada and public scientists have been replaced by “media relations” officers as the purveyors of truth, compelling the union that represents public scientists to take action.

The union that represents federal government scientists says its members feel undervalued, underfunded and are frustrated at being ignored when policy decisions are made.

Le syndicat qui représente les scientifiques fédéraux estime que l'adoption de «politiques confuses» à Ottawa souligne le besoin pressant pour le gouvernement de fonder ses politiques sur des preuves.

A union representing federal scientists has launched a campaign targeting what it calls the government's "worrying trend away from evidence-based policy-making."

The union that represents federal government scientists has created a website – PublicScience.ca – to give a voice to the work of its members.

Across the European Union and the wider Europe, governments are engaged in cutting public expenditure...

Ottawa, October 18, 2010 – Today, the union that represents federal government scientists launches a campaign to put the spotlight on science for the public good.

While I was generally positive about Budget 2009 and its support for Canadian R&D, I was skeptical (cynical, actually – it’s in my nature) ...

Nineteen of the 21 serious Republican challengers for seats in the US Senate believe that climate science is either "inconclusive" or "incorrect", according to an analysis by Washington DC's non-partisan National Journal. A more comprehensive list compiled by the left-leaning Wonk Room website suggests that 31 out of 37 Republican Senate candidates — including nine out of ten sitting senators — have recently disputed the science. Five of the remaining six actively oppose existing climate bills.

David Suzuki et Faisal Moola, la science en action, Le 13 octobre 2010 Les sardines sont une espèce rare : un aliment que l'on peut consommer «à la tonne» sans se sentir coupable

Scientists are not the kinds of people you’d normally find at a demonstration...

It began with one big question, a whole lot of fish and an improbable outcome.

This September, Arctic sea ice extent was the third-lowest in the satellite record, falling below the extent reached last summer.

Comment les forêts du globe, dont la forêt boréale du Canada, vont-elles s'adapter aux…

Le projet de loi des libéraux visant à rétablir le questionnaire détaillé obligatoire du Recensement 2011 a l'appui de l'Institut professionnel de la fonction publique du Canada (IPFPC).

Ottawa — Le projet d'une centrale nucléaire ontarienne de transporter par bateau sur les Grands Lacs et le Saint-Laurent des déchets radioactifs

(Québec) La salubrité des aliments importés au Canada est loin d'être garantie…

Bruce Cheadle, La Presse Canadienne, 20 septembre 2010 Le gouvernement du premier ministre Stephen Harper semble bafouer ses propres règles en matière de communications…

OTTAWA—Canada’s scientific community is buzzing over newly tightened rules that further restrict government researchers from speaking with the media …

D'après les scientifiques du National Climatic Data Center, l'année 2010 pourrait être l'une des années les plus chaudes jamais recensées...

La couche d'ozone a cessé de se réduire grâce aux mesures prises contre les gaz polluants l'affectant et retrouvera son niveau d'avant 1980 d'ici 2050…

Nearly half of the scientists and inspectors polled at the FDA and USDA say businesses and members of Congress have intruded on their work.

WASHINGTON (September 13, 2010) -- Hundreds of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Department of Agriculture (USDA) employees who work with food safety said public health has been harmed by their agencies deferring to business interests…

Interesting story from Postmedia’s Margaret Munro this morning on how the Conservatives have moved to tighten control on what scientists in the federal government’s employ can say to reporters.

The UK is reputedly poor at capitalising on its scientific excellence. Is this due to a lack of vision in the advice given to politicians?

The government talks a good game on scientific research – then reveals its true colours with funding cuts

The anti-science strain pervading the right wing in the United States is the last thing the country needs in a time of economic challenge.

Consumer Groups, Survivors of Foodborne Illness, Call on Senate to Pass FDA Reform Legislation This Month

The Interior Department released its new scientific integrity policy last week, but scientists and advocacy groups are miffed at what they view as an incomplete and disingenuous set of rules.

L'imprécision des tracés explique les deux accidents récents dans le cercle polaire, côté canadien. Deux bateaux ont été accidentés en l'espace d'une semaine, au nord du cercle polaire, côté canadien : en plus de relancer le débat sur les risques environnementaux associés au développement du trafic...

Stockholm - L'accroissement de la pollution de l'eau et la baisse de sa qualité dans le monde seront le sujet principal de la Semaine mondiale de l'eau dont la 20e édition s'ouvre dimanche à Stockholm en présence de quelque 2500 experts.

Ottawa — Moins d'argent, alors moins de résultats. Le désengagement financier du gouvernement fédéral dans le Programme québécois de surveillance du climat (PSC) depuis 13 ans a eu pour effet de réduire de près de 40 % la quantité d'informations que partagent Québec et Ottawa en matière de climatologie.

Sino-American cooperation to increase product safety is increasing, but this does not relieve concern about the safety of food and other Chinese exports to the U.S. China’s enforcement of its own laws remains inconsistent, local governments often try to hide information about defective products, and whistleblowers risk punishment. Moreover, as China’s foreign trade expands, problems may also grow in other areas.

Edmonton — Une nouvelle étude démontre que les raffineries des sables bitumineux rejettent des métaux lourds dans l'air et dans l'eau du nord de l'Alberta.

Bob Weber, La Presse Canadienne, Le 31 août 2010 Le ministre fédéral de l'Environnement appuie son homologue provincial albertain en ce qui concerne les inquiétudes voulant que les sables bitumineux …

Ottawa — Le gouvernement Harper a délibérément adopté une stratégie de dissimulation de l'information pour faire progresser son programme de droite, accusent les libéraux. Ils déposeront en septembre un projet de loi d'initiative parlementaire pour rétablir le caractère obligatoire du formulaire détaillé du recensement et empêcher à l'avenir le gouvernement de le modifier sans l'accord du Parlement.

One report after another offers us quick fixes to close the gaps. But there are no short cuts.

The science community is getting increasingly apprehensive about the prospect of significant cuts in funding when the public spending review takes place in October.

Neufs polluants, dont des pesticides et insecticides toujours très utilisés de part le monde, ont été ajoutés sur la liste rouge des produits chimiques toxiques …

Ottawa - Le gouvernement Harper a délibérément adopté une stratégie de dissimulation de l'information pour faire progresser son programme social et judiciaire de droite, accusent les libéraux.

Ottawa — Le réseau de surveillance climatologique d'Environnement Canada est en piteux état, révèle un rapport interne qui conclut qu'un sérieux coup de barre est nécessaire...

In a commentary in The Hill Times, Prof. Trudo Lemmens takes a closer look at the privacy issues cited by the federal government as the reason for the cancellation the mandatory long-form census.

Ottawa - Un nouveau sondage laisse croire que les économistes sont très majoritairement opposés à la décision du gouvernement Harper d'éliminer le caractère obligatoire du questionnaire détaillé pour le recensement de Statistique Canada.

Washington - De grandes quantités de débris en matière plastique flottent dans l'ouest de l'Atlantique nord, ont établi des chercheurs américains dont les travaux, conduits pendant deux décennies, ont été publiés jeudi.

De grandes quantités de débris en matière plastique flottent dans l'ouest de l'Atlantique Nord, ont établi des chercheurs américains dont les travaux, conduits pendant deux décennies, ont été publiés jeudi 19 août.

Un long panache aux reflets brunâtre de 35 km de long, 2 km de large et 200 m d'épaisseur, à 900 m sous la surface de l'océan... Il n'existe pas encore d'images de ce "nuage", mais sa composition est bien connue.

Alain Fuchs, chimiste, a été nommé le 20 janvier 2010 à la tête du CNRS. A la veille d'une rentrée pleine d'enjeux pour la communauté scientifique et universitaire, le président du principal organisme français de recherche dévoile au Monde sa vision des choses sur deux sujets polémiques…

Manille - Si les changements climatiques jouent probablement un rôle dans les précipitations records qui se sont abattues cet été sur l'Asie, la destruction des écosystèmes a fortement accentué l'effet des inondations dévastatrices, estiment des experts.

Le débat provoqué par l'idée du gouvernement Harper d'abandonner le caractère obligatoire du questionnaire long lors du recensement n'est pas seulement une affaire mineure gonflée hors de proportion par des médias en manque de nouvelles au cœur de l'été.

Are we making fewer discoveries than in the past? Can war make us cleverer? The answers lie in scientometrics, the field of research that puts scientists under the microscope

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PARIS - Entre canicule, sécheresse et inondations, les événements exceptionnels qui s'enchaînent de la Russie au Pakistan, cet été, renvoient aux sombres perspectives sur les effets futurs des changements climatiques.

Technology allows researchers to monitor brain-cell activity in powerful detail over several days

Des scientifiques canadiens ont constaté qu'il suffisait de trois générations à l'épinoche pour s'adapter à une eau 2,5°C plus froide que celle où vit ce petit poisson. Il reste à voir si cette capacité d'adaptation à un changement climatique brutal se manifeste aussi quand l'eau se réchauffe.

As we wrote recently, nothing would please us more than if climate change deniers were right. It isn't fun to delve daily into the ever-mounting evidence of the catastrophic consequences of climate change.

When William Baffin sailed past the entrance to a broad channel north of the island that now bears his name, little did the intrepid English navigator realize that it was the gateway to the very thing he was looking for: the fabled northwest passage to the riches of the Far East.

Les Lumières en étaient persuadées. La large diffusion de la connaissance était essentielle au progrès et à l'atteinte de la véritable liberté. Pour elles, ceux qui se targuaient de pouvoir nier le savoir ou de restreindre sa diffusion afin de protéger leurs intérêts ou d'imposer leurs théories fausses n'avaient qu'un nom: obscurantistes.

What Canadians are witnessing in the census saga is the temporary triumph of ideology over reason.

WASHINGTON — A comprehensive national response to climate change should be informed by reliable data coordinated through...

You probably won't hear it from conservative columnists, Fox News commentators or the plethora of blogs that have claimed global warming essentially stopped in 1998, but recent figures released by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show that global land and ocean surface temperatures in June were the highest since record-keeping began in 1880.

The head of Statistics Canada has quit in protest over the Conservatives' decision to axe the long-form census questionnaire, warning that Ottawa's proposal for a voluntary survey won't work.

British science funders have been ordered by the government to draw up detailed plans for coping with inevitable budget cuts later this year.

The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has launched a new national campaign called "Curious for Life" which is aimed at bringing awareness to scientists and their work on climate change.

A culture of politics trumping science, many say, persists despite the president's promises. The use of potentially toxic dispersants to fight the gulf oil spill is cited as just one example.

In the bad old days, traditional Tories regarded science as a cultural activity, akin to ballet, so it was heartening to hear the UK Science Minister David Willetts argue today that there is an economic case for a strong research base.

Perhaps now we can put the manufactured controversy known as Climategate behind us and turn to the task of actually doing something about global warming.

Newspapers seem to suggest we care more about the World Cup and celebrities than problems like vanishing species or climate change.

So far this year, 20 different children's jewelry items have been recalled in Canada for being packed with lead, nowhere near the maximum allowable limit of 0.06 per cent. Each sailed through the Canadian border and slipped through the quality-control systems put in place by various companies in the supply chain, resulting in tens of thousands of toxic pieces ending up in Canadian homes.

OTTAWA - A Toronto meat packing plant was caught fudging the best before dates on packages of ham about a month before it had to recall peppercorn salami when samples tested positive for potentially deadly bacteria.

Many researchers believe that quantitative metrics determine who gets hired and who gets promoted at their institutions. With an exclusive poll and interviews, Nature probes to what extent metrics are really used that way.

Barack Obama's commission investigating the spill will almost certainly find that cleanup efforts were hampered by the absence of a network of buoys and monitoring systems to track the oil.

Despite a sharpened focus on food safety in Canada after the 2008 listeriosis crisis, the quality of the country's food-safety system remains essentially unchanged, a newly published ranking concludes.

"I’ve got to say it was a total shock to me" said Industry Minister Tony Clement, two days after announcing that 19 "world renowned" scientists — none female — had won his government’s inaugural Canada Excellence Research Chairs

The decision by the Conservative government to tie the sale of AECL to the budget (Bill C-9) will allow the federal cabinet to sell all or part of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL), marking the last chapter in yet another Canadian high-tech wonder.

Any illusion that science could swing the vote for particular MPs was dashed last night...

Ottawa – The Canada Foundation for Innovation commissioned Ipsos Reid to conduct the Canadian Youth Science Monitor, the first nationwide survey on the views of Canadian youth (aged 12 to 18) towards the sciences.

Canada is in many ways a powerhouse of academic science: its university researchers are prolific publishers and strong contributors to the national research and development enterprise. Yet Canadian government policy does far too little to support and utilize this strength...

The United States faces extraordinary challenges such as combating climate change, protecting public health, and maintaining economic competitiveness.