
Science & Tech
How Canadian ice research is changing how offshore structures are built in the Arctic
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Science & Tech
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A warmer, wetter, and wilder climate is unbalancing the Arctic ecosystem
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Sunniva Sorby and Hilde Fålun Strøm share details of their “Hearts in the Ice” project and why they want to inject hope into the conversation about climate change
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Environment
Environment
Environment
Environment
Environment
Environment
People & Culture
Captain Cook Rediscovered: Voyaging to the Icy Latitudes seeks to provide a fresh view on Cook's legacy from a North American perspective.
People & Culture
A group of students from around the world who embark on an unforgettable journey of Arctic education wind up discovering something about themselves in the process
People & Culture
People & Culture
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.
Exploration
An account of Enduring Ice, The Royal Canadian Geographical Society's 2017 Expedition of the Year
Exploration
Four researchers team up to ascend Mount Logan, measuring change and resilience on Canada’s highest peak
Environment
Permafrost thaw is widespread, accelerating and irreversible. With it comes visible effects on the ecology, hydrology and landscapes, and communities of the North.
Environment
A study of more than 1,700 glaciers on northern Ellesmere Island found six per cent of ice coverage disappeared between 1999 and 2015
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
History
Mary Vaux’s groundbreaking 19th-century study of B.C.’s Illecillewaet Glacier created an invaluable record of the glacier’s recession
History
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
History
As the 2014 Victoria Strait Expedition encounters the thickest ice in years, searchers share tales of past ill-fated adventures in the unpredictable waters
History
AUV to be redeployed in waters it recently charted for signs of Franklin's ships
Travel
The holidays may be over, but January can still be a time of celebration by bundling up and heading to the Niagara Icewine Festival
Exploration
Go deep below the Columbia Icefield in Banff National Park to “the most inaccessible place in Canada” with the 2020 Castleguard Cave Expedition
Exploration
Ken Hedges of the 1968-69 British Trans Arctic Expedition reflects on the perilous and ground-breaking journey
Travel
Fun winter events
Kids
From sea ice to ocean currents, Svalbard has a unique yet fragile environment that may look very different as climate change shifts weather patterns
Wildlife
Environment
Exploration
People & Culture
Places
Wildlife
Exploration
After being postponed a year due to COVID-19, the Mount Logan Ice Expedition made a successful summit of Canada’s highest peak.
Exploration
The geologist spoke to Can Geo about exploring the secrets of the Arctic, one cave at a time
Exploration
A team of climbers and scientists plan to summit the Yukon’s Mount Logan next spring in the name of climate change — and to re-evaluate its height with modern GPS technology
Exploration
In this excerpt from her new memoir, Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver, Jill Heinerth writes about learning to accept fear as a part of exploration
Exploration
An 86-year-old journal provides insights into the perils of northern exploration
Wildlife
Wildlife
Wildlife
Wildlife
Wildlife
Wildlife
Science & Tech
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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University of British Columbia PhD student Alex Wilson is studying the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt for clues to past climatic shifts
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From coal mining to scientific research, the remote archipelago of Svalbard has a rich and complex heritage
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Inuit hunters and scientists are collaborating to record recent alarming shifts in Hudson Bay sea ice
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As climate change accelerates Arctic melt, the ice is offering up its secrets
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Tough, yet fragile. Ancient, yet vulnerable. Ice has inspired artists and scientists for generations but a new exhibit aims to show ice – and its relationship to climate change – in a new way.
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Adventurers Sunniva Sorby and Hilde Fålun Strøm, founders of Hearts in the Ice, return to Svalbard, Norway, for a second overwintering to build on their citizen science work
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Researchers are tracking ice density, cracks and the impacts of truck traffic from space
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Study tests and ranks the best winter boots on wet and dry ice
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These less-than-conventional methods might be the future front lines of fighting climate change
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How does life survive in one of the most inhospitable places on Earth and why does it matter? Warwick Vincent is finding answers on the bottoms of frozen lakes at the top of the world.
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Part three of Canada’s Ocean Supercluster: A six-part series
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Environment
Groups agree to plan to conserve the High Arctic Basin, while Tallurutiup Imanga National Marine Conservation Area becomes official
Environment
Researchers say the naturally occurring ice-free area, called a polynya, is a rare opportunity to study heat transfer between the ocean and atmopshere in the southern polar region
Environment
Adam Weymouth's first book, Kings of the Yukon, sees him paddle the length of the Yukon River to trace the route of migrating chinook salmon
Environment
Research institutions from across Canada and the U.S. collaborate to collect and analyze carbon samples from the Great Lakes during peak ice coverage
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 story of how a critically endangered Indigenous language can be saved
People & Culture
A celebration of the Canadian Coast Guard’s renowned search-and-rescue capabilities — and more — as the special operating agency turns 60
People & Culture
What it's like to be in one of Canada's most exhilarating and unusual professions
People & Culture
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People & Culture
People & Culture
People & Culture
People & Culture
People & Culture
Jon Turk shares an excerpt from his new book Crocodiles and Ice: A Journey into Deep Wild
Travel
An insider’s account of the modern-day gold rush
History
Work continues after passing through sea ice
History
Facing sea ice, the One Ocean Expedition Voyager search team debates how to access their ideal hunting grounds
History
First surveying trip a success, but tougher conditions beckon
History
All hail snail mail
Exploration
On the 100th anniversary of Shackleton’s funeral, the Endurance22 Expedition has located the iconic ship
Exploration
“It’s kind of what I imagine outer space to be like”
Kids
Two adventurers have extended their stay in isolation in Svalbard, Norway to continue gathering wildlife observations in the remote Arctic
Kids
From phytoplankton to drones, citizen science in the remote Svalbard wilderness is contributing to research around the world
Mapping
Kids
Drones are providing new ways of tracking wildlife and mapping changes in the Arctic
Travel
Wildlife
From September to November, grizzly bears gather in the mountainous Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation Traditional Territory to feast on salmon. As the temperature dips, their fur becomes coated in ice, creating an otherworldly look and spectacular photos.