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10 Fundy facts

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What lies beneath: Ghost gear in our oceans

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Kahkiihtwaam ee-pee-kiiweehtataahk: Bringing it back home again

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Investing in Canada’s biodiversity: Federal government funds $2M for wildlife conservation in Kootenay region of British Columbia

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Fundy Footpath: the east coast’s hidden gem
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People & Culture
The funniest places: Why Canadian comedy is obsessed with geography
From Letterkenny to Schitt’s Creek, Canada’s geography has become the laughing stock of television — and that shouldn’t come as a surprise
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People & Culture
Field station woes
Cut off from federal funding, field stations look for new ways to stay afloat
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People & Culture
New Land Expedition: Fun facts
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People & Culture
The truth about polar bears
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
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Wildlife
As deadly white-nose syndrome spreads west, bat biologists race to prepare
Disease has appeared for the first time in Manitoba, Minnesota and Wyoming
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Travel
How the world came together to protect a B.C. inlet
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
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Wildlife
Migration in the time of climate change
New technology is helping researchers understand how birds time their migrations when the seasons send mixed signals
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Wildlife
How citizen scientists solved a migration mystery
No one knew golden eagles in the Yukon and Alaska migrated along the Rockies’ front ranges, until an avid birder noticed something strange
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Environment
5 Manitoban water conservation projects
How people are trying to save Manitoba's waterways
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Photos: Along the Fundy Footpath
This narrow, rock-strewn track along New Brunswick’s Fundy coast is recommended for only the most prepared hikers — but those who brave it are amply rewarded
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Fundy’s Amazing Places
Explore the UNESCO Fundy Biosphere Reserve with your smartphone
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Travel
Trans Canada Trail celebrates 30 years of connecting Canadians
The trail started with a vision to link Canada coast to coast to coast. Now fully connected, it’s charting an ambitious course for the future.
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Travel
Making a splash at Great Wolf Lodge
The ultimate hotel-meets-waterpark, Great Wolf Lodge in Niagara Falls, Ont., delivers on a complete family getaway
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Celebrities, scientific revelations and family fun at Ottawa’s Outdoor and Travel Adventure Show
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Testing the future of tidal energy in Nova Scotia
In the Bay of Fundy, technicians are putting a groundbreaking new tidal technology through its paces
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Science & Tech
Bug news! World-renowned Canadian entomologists fund Canadian Museum of Nature visiting scientist program
After 50-plus years of fieldwork and education, Drs. Stewart and Jarmila Peck will support the next generation of biodiversity researchers
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‘It’s been raining! In the High Arctic!’
The Canadian High Arctic Research Station is set to open in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, later this year. How will it affect our understanding and appreciation of the North and the rapid change occurring there?
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Following Greenland Sharks in Canada’s Arctic
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Storms and wildfires can cut electricity, but microgrids help communities take control
More than 430,000 kilometres of transmission lines crisscross North America
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Environment
The sixth extinction
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?
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Environment
Five green highlights of the latest federal budget
Budget 2018 contains some major investments in Canada's wilderness and wildlife. Here are the highlights.
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Environment
Federal government announces $30 million in funding for The Great Trail
Network of connected trails that spans Canada from coast to coast to coast will receive cash over a four-year period
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Environment
Video of the week: funnel cloud forms in Windsor, Ont.
Watch a tornado touch down
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Wildlife
New funding to help Saskatchewan ranchers protect species at risk
Environment and Climate Change Canada has given $2.58 million to the Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association to lead a conservation project designed to help species at risk
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Wildlife
Wildlife Wednesday: A killer without a name and funding caribou fornication
Highlights and headlines from the world of wildlife this week
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Wildlife
The giant crocodiles that once roamed prehistoric B.C.
Plus: Montreal’s mischievous fox, the supersized goldfish invading Canada’s lakes, Arctic fungi under threat and an Indigenous-led movement to collect Canada’s seeds.
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Wildlife
White-nose syndrome reaches west coast
This deadly disease has killed more than 5.7 million bats, and it's spreading
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Wildlife
Infographic: Fun facts about Canada’s bear species
Canada is home to three species of bear, each with their own unique characteristics and habits
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Environment
Roy MacGregor on the rivers that shaped our nation
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
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History
La grande faucheuse
L’histoire méconnue de la grippe espagnole de 1918 et notre état de préparation à la prochaine grande pandémie
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Mapping
Mapping COVID-19: How maps make us feel
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
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People & Culture
The Inuit future
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
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People & Culture
500 residents of an Ontario town might live on an island soon if dike breaches
There is up to a 40 per cent chance a shoreline road on Lake Erie, which acts as a dike, will fail
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People & Culture
In search of promised lands
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.
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People & Culture
Trans Canada Trail and AccessNow unite: New partnership creates greater accessibility
Canadian Paralympians and Para athletes join the mission to increase trail accessibility across Canada
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People & Culture
The Royal Canadian Geographical Society and the National Geographic Society join forces
The two iconic geographic societies formalize a renewed partnership
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People & Culture
Igniting passion, sharing science and celebrating success
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
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People & Culture
CHARS: Canada’s Arctic research hub
The Canadian High Arctic Research Station will play a central role in the future of science in Canada’s north
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People & Culture
Colour the Trails: Taking up space with Demiesha Dennis
Part of our ongoing Colour the Trails series
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People & Culture
First all-women team makes successful summit of Mount Lucania
It was the third attempt at Canada’s third highest peak for the RCGS-funded team
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People & Culture
How an Ottawa photographer helps bring Canada’s pastime to the North
Photographer Michelle Valberg discusses Project North, her not-for-profit that delivers hockey equipment to communities in Nunavut, Northwest Territories, northern Quebec and Labrador
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People & Culture
The cod delusion
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?
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People & Culture
Catherine McKenna on diversity in politics, internet trolls, and cold-water swimming
Episode 28
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
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Places
Five projects that are helping to conserve endangered species in Canada’s national parks
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
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Wildlife
New research offers insight into the skin care routine of bowhead whales
Researchers at the University of British Columbia have found evidence that bowhead whales exfoliate their skin by rubbing against large rocks
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Travel
Fun aurora borealis facts
Brush up on your aurora borealis trivia
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Travel
Gear review: Explorer-in-Residence Jill Heinerth tests the Keen Terradora hiker
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
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11 outdoor apps for Android smartphones
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Travel
Best road trip games
Stay entertained on long drives with these fun ways to pass the time
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9 things not to miss in Saint Andrews, N.B.
Where to eat, play and stay in the seaside resort
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Canadian Geographic’s best of summer 2013 gear list
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Toronto’s Monster Dash
Prepare for a graveyard smash
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Travel
Festivals Round-up
Fun winter events
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Sisters of the surf
The owner of Surf Sisters on promoting women’s surfing
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Travel
Canada’s top corn mazes
Get lost this fall in Canada’s top 10 corn mazes
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Exploration
RCGS-funded expeditions take on peaks, rivers and trails across Canada
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
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Environment
Fun facts to celebrate International Day of Forests
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Environment
Deceptive feathered dinosaur gets a fitting name
Apatoraptor pennatus eluded researchers for decades
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Environment
Funding a comeback for eelgrass
As eelgrass vanishes from Vancouver Island’s coast, environmentalists look to the carbon-offset market to save it
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Wildlife
Fundraising for more hydrophones in Great Bear Sea
Conservation group Pacific Wild hopes to raise money for hydrophone network in Great Bear Sea
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Wildlife
Tracking sea turtles
International grassroots organizations unite over turtle conservation
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Environment
Why Canada should recognize its citizens’ environmental rights
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
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Wildlife
Data from space could help protect North Atlantic right whales
The smartWhales program relies on industry collaboration
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Environment
Toronto city council votes to save historic red oak
The fight to save the city’s oldest tree is over, and Zhelevo has won
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Environment
“There’s no coming back from this:” Why the global ocean crisis threatens us all
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
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Science & Tech
Weather watchers encouraged to report tornadoes in Canada this summer
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
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Wildlife
Punctuation’s mark: Can we save the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale?
After a series of mass deaths in recent years, what can we do?
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Science & Tech
Nova Scotia’s first in-stream tidal turbine starts producing power
The Maritime province's two-megawatt turbine is now connected to the power grid
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Exploration
Pushing limits across Lake Ontario: Mario Rigby on his next adventure
Mario Rigby is embarking on a 20 day kayaking expedition to promote domestic and sustainable travel
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Environment
New Brunswick’s famous Elephant Rock collapses
The Bay of Fundy's Elephant Rock has partially collapsed, leaving one of Canada’s classic landmarks forever changed
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Wildlife
Environmental groups say emergency plan missing in new right whale protection measures
Only about 400 North Atlantic right whales remain in the wild
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Wildlife
7 ways to enjoy birds in your backyard this summer
You’ll be amazed at the feathered friends you can attract to your yard by following these simple tips
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Wildlife
How to fix a turtle
An Ontario centre is charting new horizons in wildlife rehabilitation — one reconstructed turtle at a time
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Environment
How conservation photographers use social media to help the planet
Photographer-In-Residence Neil Ever Osborne on the role of online photo-sharing communities in the conservation movement
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Science & Tech
Energy efforts making headlines across Canada
From electric vehicles to geothermal energy, our focus is on reducing emissions by 2050
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Wildlife
Ours to save: the species that can only be found in Canada
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.
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History
The White Hurricane
A century later, tales of the legendary storm that hit the Great Lakes region live on
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Environment
The health of the Fraser River
Follow the team of specialists diagnosing the ills of British Columbia’s Fraser River
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Wildlife
The struggle to keep the Experimental Lakes Area
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History
“In Flanders Fields”
The story behind the poem
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Environment
Federal government commits $68.4M to fight ‘devastating’ mountain pine beetle
An interview with Natural Resources Canada Minister Seamus O’Regan on the federal government’s recent decision
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Science & Tech
Canadian rover set to land on moon within five years
The unmanned vehicle will collect imagery and data of the surface the moon
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Wildlife
Alberta app to track moose population across the province
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Science & Tech
How artificial intelligence can help crisis managers respond during extreme weather events
Artificial intelligence combines with social-media analysis to inform first responders and scientists
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Environment
5 ways to cut down on plastic waste this holiday season
Wrapping paper, packaging, plastic plates and cutlery — it all adds up. Here are some easy ways to avoid a nightmare around Christmas.
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Environment
The power of echinacea
Using echinacea to clean up contaminated soil
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