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Google launches new and improved Google Earth, with more ways to explore the world
Canadian Geographic Education tapped to host workshops to help teachers make the most of the new tool
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Canadian Geographic Education tapped to host workshops to help teachers make the most of the new tool
Mapping
A new update allows users to view 3,100 Indigenous communities and treaty settlement lands
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Science & Tech
A new Google project zeroes in on Canada’s Devon Island, the most Mars-like environment on Earth
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Environment
The Nature Conservancy of Canada has teamed up with Google in an effort to make some of Canada’s hidden natural landscapes more accessible to people worldwide
Environment
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
Environment
The Royal Canadian Geographical Society’s newest Explorer-in-Residence shares insights from her summers studying murres in the High Arctic — a region she calls an “early warning system” for climate change
Environment
The marine biologist on why we’re asking too much of the ocean — and how to protect the future of fish
History
The bestselling author and historian on why exploration is essential to understanding Canada’s history
History
Host David McGuffin and RCGS Explorer-in-Residence Adam Shoalts reveal some of the compelling figures of the early fur trade in Canada: Henry Kelsey, Samuel Hearne, and the great Dene leader Matonabbee
History
As a way of illustrating the importance of company fur traders to the 100-year-old HBC collection, curator Amelia Fay pulls out three items donated by Julian Camsell, HBC Chief Factor for the MacKenzie District in Canada’s Arctic
History
Continuing our deep dive into the Hudson’s Bay Company archives at the Manitoba Museum, this week we look at some of the items that figured prominently in trade, including the iconic point blanket
History
Written on animal skin 350 years ago, the Royal Charter that created the Hudson’s Bay Company is both an incredible and problematic document
Explore presents the Hudson’s Bay Company – BONUS EPISODE: Life at Fort Simpson
02Explore presents the Hudson’s Bay Company – Part 3: The rise of the Métis
03Explore presents the Hudson’s Bay Company – Part 1: Waskaganish
04Explore presents the Hudson’s Bay Company – BONUS EPISODE: Sir George Simpson
Exploration
The solo adventurer and best-selling author shares highlights from his expeditions and the “lost” explorer who’s captured his imagination
Exploration
One of Canada’s most accomplished cavers shares what it’s really like to explore the world beneath our feet
Exploration
Gather ’round and listen as explorer and bestselling author Adam Shoalts spins a spine-tingling tale of tracking a legendary creature in Labrador’s Mealy Mountains
Exploration
The extreme explorer shares why his attempted winter traverse of the High Arctic island was one of his most challenging — and special — expeditions yet
People & Culture
Connie Walker discusses her late father’s experience of abuse as a First Nations child at St Michael’s Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan
People & Culture
As NASA and the world’s space agencies prepare to return to the moon, geologist Dr. Gordon “Oz” Osinsky helps train potential lunar explorers in remote northern Labrador on what they could find there
People & Culture
Former child soldiers who fought in Sudan during Africa’s bloodiest civil war eventually found refuge in Canada — many of them in Brooks, Alta. Anthropologist, author and journalist Carol Berger shares their stories.
Exploration
The Canadian Space Agency astronaut on the Zen-like experience of living in orbit, his groundbreaking spacewalk, and the low-tech way he knew he’d made it to space
Exploration
Explorer and “canoe evangelist” James Raffan reflects on the symbolic importance of the canoe to Canada and his most recent expedition in the Marshall Islands
People & Culture
Urbanist Robin Mazumder reviews Quayside, the new ‘smart’ neighbourhood on Toronto’s eastern waterfront
People & Culture
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
People & Culture
Education and entertainment don't have to stop just because everything is closed
People & Culture
For the former Commissioner of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Sept. 30 is akin to Remembrance Day
People & Culture
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield discusses how his own experiences in space informed his first novel, a classic Cold War-era spy thriller
Mapping
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Travel
The author and anthropologist discusses the five years of travels he undertook along Colombia’s Magdalena River
Travel
We sit down with “Leroy in front of the camera” to discuss the road-tripping comedy duo’s meteoric rise on TikTok and where they’re headed next
Travel
Bring it … and leave it all on the mountain
Travel
An insider’s account of the modern-day gold rush
Science & Tech
This eco-friendly clothing company started by young Canadian sisters Bree and Hailey Hollinsworth, is quickly becoming one of the country’s sustainability superstars
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15-year-old Ann Makosinski's design uses heat from a user's hand to power a flashlight
Science & Tech
From coal mining to scientific research, the remote archipelago of Svalbard has a rich and complex heritage
Wildlife
The new president of Birds Canada gives us an inside look at Canada’s largest citizen science movement
People & Culture
Canada’s former Poet Laureate gives us a tour of the cultural geography of Black Nova Scotia
People & Culture
A century after the first woman was elected to the Canadian Parliament, one of the most prominent figures in present-day politics shares her thoughts on how to amplify diverse voices in the Commons
People & Culture
The Rheostatics frontman, bestselling author and community newspaper publisher shares why hyper-local storytelling matters more now than ever before
People & Culture
The First Nations political leader and Honorary President of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society reflects on his childhood on reserve and his role as an oskâpêwis — a Cree word meaning helper
Places
It's now possible to virtually visit the northern tip of Canada
Wildlife
International grassroots organizations unite over turtle conservation
Mapping
Thanks to machine learning, researchers have been able to monitor and map gentrification across the nation’s capital
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Across Canada, teachers are getting creative with their methods and approaches in the classroom to overcome challenges imposed by COVID-19
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People & Culture
Once a traditional way of life across Canada, trapping survives and even thrives in communities throughout the North, including Colville Lake, N.W.T.
Mapping
Canadian Geographic cartographer Chris Brackley continues his exploration of how the world is charting the COVID-19 pandemic, this time looking at how artistic choices inform our reactions to different maps
Kids
From sea ice to ocean currents, Svalbard has a unique yet fragile environment that may look very different as climate change shifts weather patterns
Kids
From phytoplankton to drones, citizen science in the remote Svalbard wilderness is contributing to research around the world
Environment
Five eco-friendly products used around the world to create paper
Places
Cobalt’s silver rush in the 1900s changed how mining was carried out in Canada and internationally — and not always for the better
History
Wildlife
Plus: Marathon hare migrations, increasingly efficient wolves, wandering basking sharks and homemaking bees
Exploration
Royal Canadian Geographical Society Explorer-in-Residence Ray Zahab discusses his 2019 Trans-Kamchatka expedition and other extreme marathon adventures.
Exploration
The RCGS Explorer-in-Residence returns to the Explore podcast to share an exciting project she’s been working on close to home
People & Culture
How has your life changed because of COVID-19?
People & Culture
#MuseumSelfie trended on Twitter January 20th as people the world over shared their snaps.
People & Culture
Mapping
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Mangroves provide a range of benefits, including protection from storms and the prevention of coastal erosion
Mapping
This artist travelled the world and used his GPS tracked movements to write 'PEACE' across a Google map of the world
Mapping
This online map platform displays hundreds of stories on ecological farming issues from around the world
Science & Tech
A warmer, wetter, and wilder climate is unbalancing the Arctic ecosystem
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