Kelp’s potential as a commercial crop is finally being recognized — and, as kelp forests vanish worldwide, so is its importance in coastal ecosystems 

Researchers from the international PoLAR-FIT team are revealing a four-million-year-old forest beautifully preserved in permafrost and peat on Nunavut’s Ellesmere Island

Groups agree to plan to conserve the High Arctic Basin, while Tallurutiup Imanga National Marine Conservation Area becomes official

A controversial government project aims to establish a king penguin population in the North

Katherine Black is working to better understand the implications associated with the spread of green alder shrubs across the Arctic tundra

Paul Colangelo shares images from his time exploring the North with the first Canadian to walk in space

The Global Library of Underwater Biological Sounds (GLUB) will catalogue sounds from whales to fish (glub?) to boat noise

A century ago, a strange drama played out on Wrangel Island in the Russian Arctic. The hero of this tale? A 23-year-old Inuit woman named Ada Blackjack

Canadian painter and filmmaker Cory Trépanier explores the sublime and rapidly changing Canadian Arctic

How the Joint Arctic Weather Stations program did more than just fill in a blank on the nation’s weather map

As polar bears move inland earlier across parts of the Arctic, they're geting a taste for eider eggs 

In a new book, Max Foran denounces Canada's failures in protecting its wildlife from human exploitation

One thing researchers weren't expecting to find: yellow perch cannabalism

In this essay, noted geologist and geophysicist Fred Roots explores the significance of the symbolic point at the top of the world. He submitted it to Canadian Geographic just before his death in October 2016 at age 93.

Explorer Adam Shoalts, who completed his monumental 4,000-kilometre journey on September 6, speaks to Canadian Geographic about an expedition that calls to mind the likes of Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Joseph Tyrrell

From pulling drinking water out of desert air to riding with eagle hunters in Mongolia, see what just a few of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society’s more than 1,000 Fellows have been working on lately

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

Cut off from federal funding, field stations look for new ways to stay afloat

Arctic researcher receives prestigious 2020 L’Oréal Canada For Women in Science Research Excellence Fellowship

From putting the “Canada” back in an iconic species’ name to studying a massive iceberg-calving Antarctic iceshelf, see what just a few of the RCGS’s Fellows have been working on in 2018

The winner of the 2013 Weston Family Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Northern Research — the culmination of a career in biology that speaks for itself

Three programs dedicated to advancing the quality of life in Canada’s northern communities received a much-needed funding boost on January 27 through the annual Arctic Inspiration Prize.

Scientists currently have little understanding of the impacts of climate change on Arctic flora, but a group of Canadian researchers is working to change that

In the face of climate change, the government’s long-running Northern Scientific Training Program has never been more crucial

With Canada’s North effectively closed, how are researchers changing their plans?

How a Université Laval scientist, DFO researchers and locals in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, are working together to keep these staple fish populations healthy 

Canadian psychologist Peter Suedfeld is studying stress in the world's harshest environment

Muskox populations in Canada's High Arctic have been struggling in recent years, and one University of Calgary researcher and her students are working out why

Tiny springtails in Antarctica are teaching scientists about monumental environmental change