From noble mountains to local elementary schools, the Queen’s reign and the bonds she’s forged with Canadians are reflected across the map of Canada

First Nations history shines through petroglyphs and pictographs

Six ways to explore these icy wonders

Drumheller’s Atlas coal mine takes visitors back in time

Provinces are falling behind on their obligation to protect the caribou's forest habitat, report says

From floods to fires, drought to coastal erosion, climate change is already having an impact on Canada's communities, landscapes and wildlife

Ten years after the release of her seminal book Sea Sick, Alanna Mitchell again plumbs the depths of the latest research on the health of the world’s oceans — and comes up gasping

From documenting rock-hewn churches in Ethiopia to sonar-scanning B.C. waters for steam-era shipwrecks, see what just a few of the RCGS’s more than 1,000 Fellows are working on in 2018

Plus: skydiving salamanders, Canada’s returning monarch, orca blubber insights, and the woodpecker-wasp conservation dream team. 

The Royal Alberta Museum has officially opened its downtown Edmonton building, capping a complex multi-year move that’s captured in this behind-the-scenes photo essay

Ecologists attribute the increase to mild winter weather

Once roaming across North America, the wolverine is now a rare sight

Grey jay hatchlings expected by mid-April

Four Canadian map entries have been recognized by the Cartography and Geographic Information Society in the 2020 Map Design Competition

Albertans asked to help track earthworms

An emergency order to protect Canada’s rarest bird may come too late

The Banff National Park project seeks to reintegrate the keystone species into the natural ecosystem

An utterly engaging dive into our modern ways of retreat — where we go, why we’re drawn, and how it’s urgent

International grassroots organizations unite over turtle conservation

Depending on whom you ask, the North’s sentinel species is either on the edge of extinction or an environmental success story. An in-depth look at the complicated, contradictory and controversial science behind the sound bites

Why are conditions so favourable for wildfires this year?

A major research project from the University of Alberta outlines pockets of Canada's boreal forest that may give wildlife more time and space to adjust to a changing climate

The country musician reminisces about family connections and nature on Alberta’s Bow River

New software allows anyone to easily create maps with open source GIS data

How computers are replacing humans to forecast the weather

Q&A with 10-year-old Josiah Launstein of Pincher Creek Alberta, who was recently named Young Outdoor Photographer of the Year by Outdoor Photography Magazine

Award recipients honoured in the first virtual Annual General Meeting and Fellows Show.

The planet is in the midst of drastic biodiversity loss that some experts think may be the next great species die-off. How did we get here and what can be done about it?

Categories for hydrogen and battery-electric cars attract teams interested in shaping the future of fuel 

The story of how a critically endangered Indigenous language can be saved

The Vancouver Island marmot, burrowing owl, greater sage-grouse and northern leopard frog are thriving again thanks to the zoo’s efforts 

Canadian researchers have found the first case of malignant bone cancer in a dinosaur

15-year-old Zev Heuer spent more than two months paddling from his home in Canmore, Alberta, to his summer job in Missinipe, Saskatchewan

Where and how we live affect how much energy we consume. Here’s what Canada would look like if the provinces and territories were scaled to represent the amount of energy they use.

Significant discoveries that have been made in northern Alberta

It started as an in-joke among aurora enthusiasts, but the discovery of "Steve" is making waves in the atmospheric science community 

A key barren-ground caribou herd is adapting to changes in food availability caused by climate change, says new research from the University of Alberta