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Tropical forests can handle rising temperatures up to a certain point, study finds
Trees in tropical regions of the globe can withstand temperatures up to 32.3 degrees Celsius and still effectively store carbon
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Environment
Trees in tropical regions of the globe can withstand temperatures up to 32.3 degrees Celsius and still effectively store carbon
Mapping
Species richness in Canada’s remaining intact forests
Environment
Timber poaching has become “a problem in every national forest,” with an estimated $1 billion worth of wood poached yearly in North America
Environment
An ambitious legacy project called the Queen's Commonwealth Canopy unites forest conservation projects in the Commonwealth countries
Environment
Wildlife
Wildlife
Wildlife
Wildlife
Wildlife
Wildlife
Environment
Kelp’s potential as a commercial crop is finally being recognized — and, as kelp forests vanish worldwide, so is its importance in coastal ecosystems
Environment
Future ignitions may increase carbon emissions and accelerate the boreal forest’s northern expansion
Environment
Protecting and restoring Canada’s forests and wetlands may be a great long-term way to mitigate the changing climate
Environment
How climate change is destroying some of Canada's most important underwater ecosystems
Environment
Changes to the city’s Green Standard aimed at protecting its fragile ravine network will pose challenges and opportunities for landscapers — and could kick off a national trend
Environment
How natural solutions could mitigate 78 megatonnes of greenhouse gas emissions by 2030
Environment
One of the most complex challenges for nature conservation comes from a simple question: what must we save?
Environment
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
Travel
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
People & Culture
Explore Canada's various tartans (and the stories behind them)
Environment
Since the 1990s, mountain pine beetles have invaded more than 18 million hectares of forest in Western Canada. Researchers now have a better understanding of how this is done.
Environment
Follow the team of specialists diagnosing the ills of British Columbia’s Fraser River
Environment
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
Environment
When it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, habitats themselves can be critical allies
History
Why the pesticide DDT was revered after the Second World War
History
History
History
Long before an amateur prospector struck it rich near Cobalt Lake in northern Ontario, local Indigenous nations mined and traded silver. It’s time to set the record straight on the “discovery” of Canada’s immense resource wealth.
History
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
People & Culture
The latest in our Colour the Trail series
People & Culture
The founder of Canopy speaks about winning this prestigious award
Environment
An exclusive excerpt from botanist Diana Beresford-Kroeger’s new book about how forests can not only heal us but save the planet
Science & Tech
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
How so-called rare earth elements are powering our modern tech — and where to find them
Environment
Experts say global reforestation is one of our best defences against climate change, so a Toronto-based company is developing drones that can get the job done quickly
Wildlife
Researchers at the University of British Columbia have found evidence that bowhead whales exfoliate their skin by rubbing against large rocks
Wildlife
Wildlife
“In these dark, ancient forests, lives a creature of legend.” Thus begins a new wildlife documentary about the elusive Kermode bear.
Wildlife
Give these species another few decades and they could be comeback stories. That’s not to say they won’t quickly go the other way if human vigilance and crucial research lapses or natural events interfere.
Wildlife
The wild turkey, once extirpated from Ontario, now faces two hunting seasons
Wildlife
Wildlife
The federal government has committed $1.26 million over five years for First Nations-led projects to preserve the endangered herd
Wildlife
Does a bird need to be famous to hold the title of Canada’s National Bird? Jody Allair thinks not.
Wildlife
Wildlife
After two years, nearly 50,000 votes and thousands of public and expert comments, the Canadian Geographic National Bird Project concludes. Meet our newest national emblem.
Wildlife
An estimated annual $175-billion business, the illegal trade in wildlife is the world’s fourth-largest criminal enterprise. It stands to radically alter the animal kingdom.
Wildlife
Conserving at-risk species is difficult when they’re constantly crossing international borders, but digital tools are making it easier than ever to track feathered globetrotters
Wildlife
Plus: Marathon hare migrations, increasingly efficient wolves, wandering basking sharks and homemaking bees
Wildlife
Wildlife
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.
Environment
World-renowned tree expert and author Diana Beresford-Kroeger's film crosses continents and disciplines to show how trees sustain all life on Earth
Environment
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
Fire activity in the Brazilian Amazon surged this week; here are some key things to know about the situation
Environment
In The Haida Gwaii Lesson: A Strategic Playbook for Indigenous Sovereignty, award-winning journalist Mark Dowie explores Haida Gwaii and the people who call it home. Below is an excerpt from the book.
Environment
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?
Environment
In 2005, a federal government program aimed to convert underused farmland into forests to capture carbon dioxide. How have these ‘Forest 2020’ projects fared?
Environment
Revisiting a groundbreaking discovery on Canada's northernmost island
Environment
It’s saplings vs. climate change, ‘Survivor’ style
Environment
Hundreds of Canada’s species at risk are plants, and most of them live where we do
Environment
Streams surrounded by intact forest are better at providing clean water, carbon storage and wildlife habitat
Environment
The Alpine Club of Canada covers everything from wildfires to watermelon snow in its recently published annual report on Canada's alpine environments
Environment
Experts tackle our difficult relationship with nature in panel discussions hosted by Nature Conservancy of Canada
Environment
The plastic problem on Haida Gwaii felt like witnessing a second wave of colonization
Environment
The vast majority of B.C.’s Great Bear Rainforest is now permanently off-limits to industrial logging, thanks to a landmark agreement that effectively ends decades of fighting
Environment
Environment
Environment
In highly populated areas where wildlife habitat is fragmented, citizens can play an important role in protecting species
Environment
The behavior of birds before and after the blaze that devastated Alberta’s Fort McMurray area in 2016 is leading to interesting insights into the rebound of boreal habitat
Environment
The drying of peatlands in Canada heightens the risk of wildfires and can turn into a carbon source instead of a carbon sink
Environment
Environment
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?
Environment
Two marine biologists offer a glimpse of life at the bottom of the ocean during 2018, 2019 and 2020 seamount expeditions
Environment
Now there's a way to visualize exactly what a record warm year globally meant in your city
Places
It’s an ambitious plan: take the traditional Parks Canada wilderness concept and plunk it in the country’s largest city. But can Toronto’s Rouge National Urban Park help balance city life with wildlife?
Mapping
Mapping
This online map platform displays hundreds of stories on ecological farming issues from around the world
Travel
How to make the country's quintessential dishes
Travel
Canada has just as much geographic diversity as a galaxy far, far away.
People & Culture
People & Culture
#MuseumSelfie trended on Twitter January 20th as people the world over shared their snaps.
Travel
An insider’s account of the modern-day gold rush
Travel
Bring it … and leave it all on the mountain