
Environment
What can other cities learn about water shortages from ‘Day Zero?’
Cape Town narrowly avoided ‘Day Zero,’ but that doesn’t mean the city is resilient to future water shortages
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Environment
Cape Town narrowly avoided ‘Day Zero,’ but that doesn’t mean the city is resilient to future water shortages
Science & Tech
Wildlife
International grassroots organizations unite over turtle conservation
Wildlife
Has there ever been a national symbol more loathed or misunderstood? Has there ever been a more important time for the beaver to flourish?
Environment
From floods to fires, drought to coastal erosion, climate change is already having an impact on Canada's communities, landscapes and wildlife
Wildlife
Researchers at the University of British Columbia have found evidence that bowhead whales exfoliate their skin by rubbing against large rocks
Wildlife
New technology is helping researchers understand how birds time their migrations when the seasons send mixed signals
Wildlife
After more than a million years on Earth, the caribou is under threat of global extinction. The precipitous decline of the once mighty herds is a tragedy that is hard to watch — and even harder to reverse.
Wildlife
Plus: skydiving salamanders, Canada’s returning monarch, orca blubber insights, and the woodpecker-wasp conservation dream team.
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
Travel
Science & Tech
What does the future of hydroelectricity look like in Canada?
Travel
Science & Tech
The RADARSAT Constellation Mission will capture detailed images of Canada’s landmass, helping researchers track everything from drought to the impacts of climate change in the Arctic
Science & Tech
How so-called rare earth elements are powering our modern tech — and where to find them
Science & Tech
Artificial intelligence combines with social-media analysis to inform first responders and scientists
Science & Tech
Physical distancing requirements to slow the spread of COVID-19 will make it difficult for researchers to visit suspected tornado sites this year, so the team behind the Northern Tornadoes Project is calling on the public to help
Science & Tech
Environment
New Canadian research suggests marine ecosystems are quite literally in hot water as the global climate warms
Environment
The Ontario Science Centre's Wild Weather exhibit tackles Canadians' favourite watercooler subject
Exploration
Canada is rich in fresh water — but with great wealth comes great responsibility
Wildlife
Wildlife
No one knew golden eagles in the Yukon and Alaska migrated along the Rockies’ front ranges, until an avid birder noticed something strange
Environment
Already gaining steam before the pandemic, interest in urban farming — and hunger for hyper-local food — has soared. A look at three Canadian takes on the urban farming phenomenon
Wildlife
Human and bears sharing more landscapes now than ever before. As we continue to invade their world, will we be able to coexist?
Wildlife
Plus: Marathon hare migrations, increasingly efficient wolves, wandering basking sharks and homemaking bees
Environment
How the Sahtuto'ine Dene of Déline created the Tsá Tué Biosphere Reserve, the world's first such UNESCO site managed by an Indigenous community
Environment
Five eco-friendly products used around the world to create paper
Environment
Now there's a way to visualize exactly what a record warm year globally meant in your city
Environment
Wrapping paper, packaging, plastic plates and cutlery — it all adds up. Here are some easy ways to avoid a nightmare around Christmas.
Environment
How grasslands protection and conservation agriculture can work as front-line defences against climate change
Environment
The start of the Meghalayan age 4,200 years ago brought about climatic shifts that toppled empires
Environment
Agriculture can play an important role in protecting and restoring critical habitat on the Prairies
Environment
On May 15 we held a Twitter Q&A with gardening expert Mark Cullen and his son Ben. Here are their answers to some of your top questions.
Environment
Why preserving the natural eco-system may help lessen the impact of severe storms
Environment
Fire behaviour experts who have been monitoring conditions in Alberta say it was only a matter of time before a life-threatening situation developed
Environment
Environment
The federal government’s decision to dismantle its prairie pasture reclamation program has left Saskatchewan selling off public land
Environment
British Columbia, Washington State and Oregon sit on a fault line that is capable of producing some of the strongest earthquakes on the planet. A new book reveals it’s not a matter of if, but when the next “Big One” will strike.
Wildlife
Following a deadly summer for the endangered whales, Fisheries and Oceans Canada is tightening regulations for crab fishers in the Gulf of St. Lawrence
Mapping
This online map platform displays hundreds of stories on ecological farming issues from around the world
Mapping
Wildlife
Your weekly CanGeo round-up of wildlife news
History
History
Soviet tourism ads from the 1930s portray a land of progress and plenty — but the reality proved starkly different
Wildlife
Why Canada’s cougars are on the rise — and what that means for us
Wildlife
Algonquin wolves face an uncertain future primarily because they can be legally shot and trapped in many parts of Ontario
Wildlife
Wildlife
Wildlife
Wildlife
Whales are beginning to return to B.C. waters — but will they find a safe haven?
Wildlife
An enchanting and evocative look at the unique relationship between a solitary, island-dwelling wolf and a renowned wildlife photographer
Wildlife
An emergency order to protect Canada’s rarest bird may come too late
Wildlife
Places
How conservationists and ranchers in Saskatchewan are working to slow the loss of an endangered ecosystem
Science & Tech
Science & Tech
People & Culture
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People & Culture
How researchers are finding better ways to manage the precious resource in a changing climate
Science & Tech
There was no sign of these birds of prey in the boreal Yukon by 2007, but a long-term study is now recording small returns
People & Culture
“We cannot sit on the sidelines anymore,” says Tom Rand, author of The Case for Climate Capitalism
Science & Tech
Science & Tech
Travel
While Jordan is steeped in history and culture, its stark beauty — and the customs that help protect it — should not be missed
Travel
Hope 2 Offer invites Vancouver to make a $plash
Travel
Canadian athletes at Sochi