In his new book, Original Highways: Travelling the Great Rivers of Canada, Roy MacGregor examines the historical legacy and future of Canada's greatest rivers

L’histoire méconnue de la grippe espagnole de 1918 et notre état de préparation à la prochaine grande pandémie

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

Natan Obed, president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, on the idea of a Inuit-Crown relationship, Canada’s Inuit homelands and the role of Inuit in the world

There is up to a 40 per cent chance a shoreline road on Lake Erie, which acts as a dike, will fail

Uprooted repeatedly by development projects, the Oujé-Bougoumou Cree wandered boreal Quebec for 70 years before finding a permanent home. For some, the journey continues.

Canadian Paralympians and Para athletes join the mission to increase trail accessibility across Canada

The two iconic geographic societies formalize a renewed partnership

Since International Polar Year, The W. Garfield Weston Foundation has acted as a catalyst for northern research, funding over 90 scientists at the postdoctoral, Ph.D. and master’s level from universities across Canada

The Canadian High Arctic Research Station will play a central role in the future of science in Canada’s north

Part of our ongoing Colour the Trails series

It was the third attempt at Canada’s third highest peak for the RCGS-funded team

Photographer Michelle Valberg discusses Project North, her not-for-profit that delivers hockey equipment to communities in Nunavut, Northwest Territories, northern Quebec and Labrador

A moratorium on cod fishing that was supposed to last two years has now lasted 30. What will it take to rebuild cod stocks — and a way of life?

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

From plains bison in Elk Island National Park to beluga whales in Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park, Parks Canada is leading the charge on these crucial wildlife recovery programs 

Researchers at the University of British Columbia have found evidence that bowhead whales exfoliate their skin by rubbing against large rocks

Brush up on your aurora borealis trivia

From marching for climate awareness in Washington, D.C to stomping through North Florida swampland, Heinerth tests these hiking boots as only an explorer can

Stay entertained on long drives with these fun ways to pass the time

Where to eat, play and stay in the seaside resort

Prepare for a graveyard smash

Fun winter events

The owner of Surf Sisters on promoting women’s surfing

Get lost this fall in Canada’s top 10 corn mazes

Few RCGS-funded expeditions took place last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but many explorers found a way to  safely head afield in 2021

Apatoraptor pennatus eluded researchers for decades

As eelgrass vanishes from Vancouver Island’s coast, environmentalists look to the carbon-offset market to save it

Conservation group Pacific Wild hopes to raise money for hydrophone network in Great Bear Sea

International grassroots organizations unite over turtle conservation

David Boyd, a Canadian environmental lawyer and UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment, reveals how recognizing the human right to a healthy environment can spur positive action for the planet

The smartWhales program relies on industry collaboration

The fight to save the city’s oldest tree is over, and Zhelevo has won

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

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 

After a series of mass deaths in recent years, what can we do?

The Maritime province's two-megawatt turbine is now connected to the power grid

Mario Rigby is embarking on a 20 day kayaking expedition to promote domestic and sustainable travel

The Bay of Fundy's Elephant Rock has partially collapsed, leaving one of Canada’s classic landmarks forever changed

Only about 400 North Atlantic right whales remain in the wild

You’ll be amazed at the feathered friends you can attract to your yard by following these simple tips

An Ontario centre is charting new horizons in wildlife rehabilitation — one reconstructed turtle at a time

Photographer-In-Residence Neil Ever Osborne on the role of online photo-sharing communities in the conservation movement

From electric vehicles to geothermal energy, our focus is on reducing emissions by 2050

A new report from Nature Conservancy Canada and NatureServe Canada is the first of its kind to compile over 300 species that are unique to Canada.

A century later, tales of the legendary storm that hit the Great Lakes region live on

Follow the team of specialists diagnosing the ills of British Columbia’s Fraser River

The story behind the poem

An interview with Natural Resources Canada Minister Seamus O’Regan on the federal government’s recent decision

The unmanned vehicle will collect imagery and data of the surface the moon

Artificial intelligence combines with social-media analysis to inform first responders and scientists

Wrapping paper, packaging, plastic plates and cutlery — it all adds up. Here are some easy ways to avoid a nightmare around Christmas. 

Using echinacea to clean up contaminated soil