About "Science & Technology"
The newest Canadian research and technological advances that are changing the way we understand and interact with our environment and each other.
Workers seen on top of the cliff at the Big Bar landslide on the Fraser River in July 2019. Fisheries and Oceans Canada officials said that 99 per cent of early Stuart sockeye and 89 per cent of early chinook salmon were lost that year. The fish couldn’t make it past the landslide. (Photo: Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck)
The James Webb Space Telescope has unfurled its mirrors and is en route to its final destination. (Image: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab/Can Geo)
Colourful hydrothermal vents and chimneys on the volcanic Vailulu'u seamount in the Samoan islands. The ocean floor was long thought to be flat and featureless, but new technology is revealing — and mapping — its diverse topography. (Photo: Vailulu'u 2005 Exploration, NOAA-OE)
In the Elk Valley of British Columbia, 25 per cent of elk mortalities and 30 per cent of grizzly deaths are due to vehicles. (Photo: Clayton Lamb)
Since the start of satellite records in 1979, the number of days per year that sea ice is present has declined in each subpopulation’s region. (Photo: Andreas Preußer, CC BY-ND 3.0)
Photo: James Gathany, Brian Judd, USCDCP
Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk and NASA Artemis astronaut Matthew Dominick hunt for rocks on a cliff above Kamestastin Lake in Labrador. The lake was created by a meteorite impact, and the area’s geology has many similarities to that of the moon. (Photo: Gordon Osinski)
Two leather sea stars photographed by marine ecologist Chris Harley in Vancouver’s Stanley Park on July 12, 2021, illustrate the impact of the extreme heat wave that hit Western Canada this past summer. The live star on the left was in a shady spot, while the star on the right perished in the direct sun. (Photos: Chris Harley)
A deer explores a clearcut area near Port Hardy, B.C. (Photo: Steve Fines/Can Geo Photo Club)
