Environment

Glacier ghosts of the Rocky Mountains

What vanishing mountain glaciers mean for river flows, groundwater and the millions who depend on them

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Environment

Creating pathways for nature in one of Ontario’s top ski and beach regions

How the Escarpment Corridor Alliance is balancing the needs of wildlife and people in southern Georgian Bay

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Travel

A taste of home in Sydney, N.S.

Serving diverse flavours, this Cape Breton pop-up bistro is helping newcomers feel welcome and closer to home

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Environment

El Niño is here and could reach historic intensity. What does that mean for Canada?

What do predictions of a strong El Niño event mean for Canada? Talking climate models, stats and weather predictions with the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis.

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Travel

The Essential Itinerary: Jamaica

Inspired by Jamaica’s renewed call to “Come Back,” this three-day itinerary combines music, history, nature and cuisine into one unforgettable adventure

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Wildlife in focus

Wildlife

A day in the life of the land

Photographer Stephen Wilkes blends time to capture day and night in a single frame. Here, he shares the stories behind seven images created in Canada.

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Wildlife

Are smooth greensnakes really as rare as they seem to be — or just crazy hard to find?

Researchers in P.E.I. enlist the help of citizen scientists to get closer to a definitive answer

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Wildlife

The long climb back: Saving the Vancouver Island marmot

A small army of scientists, conservationists and volunteers cooperate to ensure the successful rebound of Canada’s most endangered mammal

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Wildlife

When the wild goes quiet

“Winter has a way of softening the forest”

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History

150 years of soccer in Toronto

Toronto welcomes the FIFA World Cup to Canada, after a century and a half of the beautiful game

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Science & Tech

Scientists measured Toronto’s winter air pollution. Some of their findings were surprising

A massive study of winter air pollution conducted by more than 100 scientists is shedding light on our exposure to everything from microplastics to metals

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Wildlife

Caribou people: The story of conserving the Porcupine caribou herd is a story about working together

Amid oil and gas threats to the ancient calving grounds of the Porcupine caribou herd and startling population declines, people on both sides of the border are coming together to protect them

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Environment

It was a family ranch for generations. Now, it’s protected as native prairie grassland

An Albertan with deep roots in the Prairies donated 507 hectares of native prairie grassland along the Oldman River to be conserved under the federal government’s Ecological Gifts Program, which offers significant tax benefits for landowners willing to donate ecologically sensitive land

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Calling all wildlife photographers

Enter the 2026 Canadian Wildlife Photography of the Year competition!

Canadian Geographic’s highly-anticipated Canadian Wildlife Photography of the Year competition is back and we’re looking for your BEST shots!

Whether it’s wings in flight, life beneath the surface, wildlife on the land, or the world of flora and fungi, we want to see what you’ve got.

The Competition ends at 11:59 p.m. ET July 3, 2026.

Enter now!

ICYMI: Highlights from our recent issues

Environment

Scientists discovered the same fungus 40 years and an ocean apart. A mycologist explains how

For mycologist Greg Thorn, the two chance discoveries reveal how little we know about fungi

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Places

Troubling signs of climate change are showing up on Nova Scotia’s remote Sable Island

Despite its isolation, tiny Sable Island is a microcosm of the broader environmental forces reshaping our world

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Science & Tech

Fearfully great lizards: A brief history of how we know what we know about dinosaurs

Technology is radically changing our understanding of how dinosaurs looked and behaved, revealing a far more dynamic prehistoric world than we ever imagined

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People & Culture

“It’s almost like a treasure hunt:” investigating deepsea corals off Newfoundland’s Grand Banks

Deepsea canyons along the Southern Newfoundland Slope shelter ancient cold-water corals and rich marine biodiversity. Scientists are racing to uncover and protect this fragile ecosystem before it’s lost.

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Science & Tech

Hard core: How scientists drilled a record ice core in the Canadian High Arctic

An ice core from the Canadian Arctic’s Axel Heiberg Island, the deepest drilled in the Americas, is a record of ancient sea ice past

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Discovery Language

People & Culture

Pitewey and cookies: a Mi’kmaw auntie’s fight to revitalize her language

Katrina Clair is teaching Mi’kmaw to ensure kids like her children always have access to the language

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People & Culture

Inuktuusuunguvit? (Do you speak Inuktut?)

Ottawa is home to a booming Inuit community reclaiming their language and culture

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People & Culture

Unspoken: The Cree code talkers of the prairies

nêhiyawak soldiers bent their language to help secure the Allied victory in the Second World War, but their service is often forgotten

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People & Culture

The birth of a language speaker

In the first part of Canadian Geographic’s Discovery Language series, one Kanyen’kehá:ka family shares what it takes to raise a language speaker

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Our places, our voices

Our Country - Notre Pays

For nearly 15 years, Canadian Geographic has been asking notable Canadians to share their favourite place in Canada. From lakeside family retreats to urban hideaways, the grandeur of the Rocky Mountains to the endless horizon of the Arctic tundra, the rocky shores of Newfoundland to the windswept beaches of western Vancouver Island, their answers highlight the geographic diversity of Canada and the love that unites us. These are our places. This is our country,

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Recent Podcast Episodes

People & Culture

Sing Louder, Paddle Harder: Exploring Canada’s Arctic rivers with Ted Johnson

Episode 129

For more than 20 years, Ted Johnson and his companions paddled some of the wildest and least-travelled rivers in Canada, sharing adventures, close calls and unforgettable moments on the land

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Exploration

Retracing a historic fur trade route across Quebec with Bruno Forest

Episode 128

For 97 days, this team of six paddled 1,200 kilometres in hand-built canoes from Tadoussac to Waskaganish, Que. while tracing a historic fur trade route

48 minutes

People & Culture

At the edge of the world with Louise K. Blight

Episode 127

The conservation scientist and seabird researcher shares her insights on studying Adélie penguins in Antarctica and what it’s like to live in one of Earth’s most remote research stations

50 minutes

Exploration

Into the Carpathians: Skiing Ukraine’s highest peaks with Laval St. Germain

Episode 126

The Canadian explorer highlights the impacts of war on wildlife as well as people, what Kyiv is like today, and Ukraine’s shifting landscape

43 minutes

Shipwrecks

Exploration

Finding Quest

Inside the expedition that found famed explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s famed last ship

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Travel

Chasing storms and shipwrecks on the Oregon Coast

Offering something for everyone, this 584-kilometre wind-swept shoreline is packed with historical sites, isolated beaches, quiet seaside towns and more