Artificial intelligence is rapidly accelerating scientific output, but risks narrowing inquiry, weakening judgement and undermining how scientists are trained.

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Protecting the blue planet

A bizarro rule formally justifies politicizing public services

Online training in the application of stable isotopes to ecological and environmental research

A revised and improved version of my wildly successful stable isotope data analysis course is now available through Atomic Ecology. In this course I teach you how…

New Brunswick's ombud says Restigouche Hospital Centre staff have been restraining and secluding psychiatric patients improperly.

The global music star, whose home town of New Orleans was devastated by the hurricane in 2005, says ‘people power’ can change the world

The Space-based Detection System (SBDS) developed under the smartWhales Initiative with financial support from the Canadian Space Agency.

Space-based detection of whales is proliferating because it shows promise as a monitoring tool, yet tests of its application across taxa and environments are rare. The objective of this study was to ....

Beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) of the Eastern Beaufort Sea (EBS) population represent the second largest beluga population in Canada. The last abundance assessment for this population was con...

The P.E.I. Fishermen's Association says the latest detection of a North Atlantic right whale in the Gulf of St. Lawrence region will mean some lobster fishing crews on the North Shore will have to rem...

The recent Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) sets ambitious goals but no clear pathway for how zero loss of important biodiversity areas and halting human-induced extinction of thre...

As announced in Budget 2024, the scholarship and fellowship programs administered by the three federal research funding agencies – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) – have been streamlined into a new harmonized talent program called the Canada Research Training Awards Suite (CRTAS) that will open for applications in summer 2025.

48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science

NOAA is an agency that enriches life through science. Our reach goes from the surface of the sun to the depths of the ocean floor as we work to keep the public informed of the changing environment aro...

Fishers are borrowing and using this gear, then providing feedback to refine it.

Differences in seawater colour could reveal how tiny Antarctic creatures are faring in a warming world.

Just 50 or so remain, eking it out in the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida coast.

Just hours after his inauguration on Monday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order halting new federal leases for offshore wind projects. He cited, as one reason, the impact offshore wind m...