The Great Pacific Garbage Patch now holds tens of thousands of tons of plastic pieces, along with dozens of species that call it "home."

A long-lost painting by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens, unseen for four centuries, has just sold at auction in Versailles for $2.7 million.

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Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, which was looted by the Nazis and nearly destroyed in a fire during the second world war, sells at Sotheby’s auction A painting by Gustav Klimt has sold for a record-breaking $236.4m (£179.7m, A$364m) with fees, making it the second most expensive artwork ever sold at auction and the most expensive work of modern art sold at auction. The six-foot-tall painting, titled Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, was painted by the Austrian painter between 1914 and 1916 and shows Lederer, a young heiress and daughter of Klimt’s patrons, draped in a Chinese robe. Continue reading...

A century-old Inuvialuit kayak once used for beluga and whale hunts, and 61 other cultural objects from First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities long held in Vatican Museums vaults, will return to C...

Sources tell CBC News the Vatican and the Canadian Catholic Church are making good progress toward an agreement to return Indigenous cultural objects before the end of the year, in a handoff facilitat...

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Why do leaves change color in the fall and how can we see the process from space? Our expert explains.

The insects’ brilliant hues evolved in lush ecosystems to help them survive. Now they are becoming more muted to adapt to degraded landscapes – and they are not the only things dulling down

NUSA PENIDA, Indonesia — Two young conservation workers rattle up on a motorbike and dismount at the edge of a coconut grove. Picking through husks, fallen fronds and stray plastic bottles, they scan…

World’s first-ever pact aims to fight threats like climate change, over-fishing and deep-sea mining.

A rare butterfly species — the zebra swallowtail — has been spotted in Toronto's High Park for the first time in over a century.

For more than 40 years, glaciologist Mauri Pelto has been measuring shrinking glaciers in Washington State. He's been joined by his daughter, artist-scientist Jill Pelto, whose watercolors provide ano...