Exploration
Surviving the Race to Alaska
This motor-free ocean race — with vessels ranging from paddleboards to pedal-assist sailboats — is less about how fast you can go and more about whether you get there at all
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Remote paradise: The wonder of B.C.’s Triangle Island
Off the northwest tip of Vancouver Island, an isolated speck of “inhospitable” land is home and sanctuary to millions of seabirds
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People & Culture
Reimagining Canada’s first Japanese tea house
Eighty years after looting destroyed a storied Japanese tea house, a community is committed to redress the historical injustice
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Wildlife
Insurmountable: The battle to bring a salmon run home
“We just knew no fish would get by. Not without our help.” Behind the scenes of the epic campaign to save a Fraser River salmon run.
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Wildlife
Animal crossing: Reconnecting North America’s most important wildlife corridor
This past summer an ambitious wildlife under/overpass system broke ground in B.C. on a deadly stretch of highway just west of the Alberta border. Here’s how it happened.
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Travel
How the world came together to protect a B.C. inlet
When a significant portion of B.C.’s Princess Louisa Inlet went up for sale this spring, donors raised the $3 million needed to purchase it in just three months
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Environment
Muskwa-Kechika: An opportunity for bold conservation action
By protecting the Muskwa-Kechika, a vast, wild region of mountains, glaciers, and boreal forest in north-central B.C., we can create a climate refuge for vulnerable species
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Environment
Proposal to reopen commercial seal hunt in B.C. could have consequences for transient killer whales
A controversial proposal to reopen the seal hunt in B.C. might boost numbers of chinook salmon, but at the expense of other marine mammals, says a UBC professor
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Environment
Ocean Bridge Diaries: Dax Justin
The people and landscapes of Haida Gwaii opened my eyes to the fact that we all rely on the ocean
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Environment
“We did this:” Is there a way out of our intertwined climate and biodiversity crises?
As the impacts of global warming become increasingly evident, the connections to biodiversity loss are hard to ignore. Can this fall’s two key international climate conferences point us to a nature-positive future?
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Environment
Kelp: The sustainable superfood coming soon to a plate near you
Kelp’s potential as a commercial crop is finally being recognized — and, as kelp forests vanish worldwide, so is its importance in coastal ecosystems
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Mapping
Ocean Week: Howe Sound community creates interactive map protecting ecological, economic and cultural values
The 400-layer map will connect communities, celebrate culture and share data to protect the Howe Sound ecosystem
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Environment
Seeing the garden through the trees: The Indigenous forest gardens of coastal B.C.
The discovery of the 150-year-old Ts’msyen and Coast Salish garden sites — and their still-booming biodiversity — could provide fresh inspiration for both land management and food security solutions
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Exploration
Searching for new caves in West Kootenay, B.C.
A Royal Canadian Geographical Society-supported expedition has added to the inventory of known caves in a little-explored region
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Environment
How honeybees can help track pollution in cities
A study of honey from urban hives reveals much about Vancouver’s pollutants, past and present
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Wildlife
As deadly white-nose syndrome spreads west, bat biologists race to prepare
Disease has appeared for the first time in Manitoba, Minnesota and Wyoming
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Environment
The fate of the Fraser River delta
A booming economy, a thriving community, a healthy environment — can Vancouver have it all?
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Wildlife
B.C.’s glass sponges “cough” to unclog blocked pores
New research reveals these unique animals evolved a way to rid their systems of excess sediment — but the sponges may be having trouble keeping up with human activity in their habitat
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People & Culture
Indigenous language learners on the rise in B.C.
Environment
Ocean Bridge Diaries: Jay Matsushiba
People & Culture
First North American peoples may have arrived by sea, study finds
Environment
Fighting for their coastline
Environment
The Supreme Court sides with B.C.’s Jumbo ski resort. What does that mean for sacred places in Canada?
People & Culture
How a B.C. First Nation is working to save their language from extinction
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Environment
How storm-watchers inspired a groundbreaking coastal safety program
Initially targeted at visitors and locals in Tofino and Ucluelet, B.C., the CoastSmart program could save lives along all Canadian coasts
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Environment
British Columbia is developing its own law to protect species at risk
Environmentalists hope the long-awaited legislation will compensate for shortcomings in the federal Species at Risk Act
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Environment
What it’s really like to fight a wildfire
A former firefighter offers a glimpse at the day-to-day lives of the men and women who rush into danger each summer to protect life and property
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Environment
High-tech art to bring B.C.’s annual salmon run to downtown Vancouver
Uninterrupted, a digital art installation planned for Vancouver's Cambie Street Bridge, hopes to inspire conservation efforts
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Science & Tech
How Canada is preparing for the next big earthquake
The last megathrust earthquake to strike Canada was in 1700, and the clock is ticking. How we’re preparing for the impact.
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People & Culture
Seafood chef Ned Bell works to bring sustainability into the kitchen
Bell is the special guest at the upcoming Vancouver GeoGala, an ocean conservation-themed fundraiser for The Royal Canadian Geographical Society
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Science & Tech
What British Columbia’s volcanoes can tell us about climate change past and present
University of British Columbia PhD student Alex Wilson is studying the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt for clues to past climatic shifts
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Wildlife
A most mysterious bear
The elusive “glacier bear” of northwestern B.C. and southeastern Alaska remains a genetic mystery
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Wildlife
Tiny shrimp may be stirring up the oceans
New research suggests that swarms of migrating crustaceans have a big impact on ocean mixing
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People & Culture
The man who saved the Kinsol Trestle
Master carpenter Gordon Macdonald on restoring an iconic B.C. bridge, the value of heritage infrastructure, and why he's set his sights on the Antarctic
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Environment
Could trees be the chemical recycling centres of the future?
Researchers at the University of British Columbia Okanagan hope to learn whether chemicals absorbed by trees from contaminated soil can be retrieved and re-used
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History
Footprints found in B.C. may be North America’s oldest
Footprints found on a remote British Columbia island might be the oldest ones ever discovered in North America.
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Travel
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Coming Soon: The Whistler World Ski & Snowboard Festival
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Travel
What it’s like to sail aboard a working freight boat
Marine Link owner Guy Adams talks about the company’s main attraction
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Travel
Q&A with a heli-ski legend
Rudi Gertsch has been guiding people through the backcountry slopes of Golden, BC for 40 years. Here’s what he’s learned
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