
Wildlife
Environmental commissioner decries logging in Algonquin
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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
Mapping
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.
People & Culture
An utterly engaging dive into our modern ways of retreat — where we go, why we’re drawn, and how it’s urgent
Wildlife
New technology is helping researchers understand how birds time their migrations when the seasons send mixed signals
Wildlife
Researchers at the University of British Columbia have found evidence that bowhead whales exfoliate their skin by rubbing against large rocks
Wildlife
In shedding light on wolverines' aversion to roads, new research suggests the key to their conservation in Alberta
Wildlife
Agricultural expansion, invasive species, climate change blamed for decline in bird species worldwide
Land-use disputes south of the border threaten long-term survival of Canada lynx
02Critical habitat for boreal woodland caribou still unprotected six months after deadline
03Federal government announces new measures to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales
04Maternal pen project could be last chance for tiny endangered mountain caribou herd
Wildlife
International grassroots organizations unite over turtle conservation
Wildlife
André-Philippe Drapeau Picard of Mission Monarch discusses the threats facing monarchs and how Canadians can help
Wildlife
First Nations and scientists work side by side to better understand — and protect — coastal wolves living in the Great Bear Rainforest
Wildlife
Salmon runs are failing and grizzlies seem to be on the move in the islands between mainland B.C. and northern Vancouver Island. What’s going on in the Broughton Archipelago?
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.
People & Culture
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.
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
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
Environment
Follow the team of specialists diagnosing the ills of British Columbia’s Fraser River
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
Timber poaching has become “a problem in every national forest,” with an estimated $1 billion worth of wood poached yearly in North America
Environment
Five eco-friendly products used around the world to create paper
Environment
Wrapping paper, packaging, plastic plates and cutlery — it all adds up. Here are some easy ways to avoid a nightmare around Christmas.
Travel
How Ontario's Haliburton Forest balances preservation with profit
Travel
An insider’s account of the modern-day gold rush
Travel
Bring it … and leave it all on the mountain
Travel
Thomas Hall review the Seattle Sports Firewater Multi-Bottle and Mountain Hardwear Lamina Z Spark sleeping bag
Travel
Between rainforest and cloud forest, a serene sanctuary awaits
People & Culture
In British Columbia’s Bella Coola Valley, the next generation of Nuxalk culture-keepers and Guardian Watchmen is establishing a new paradigm for Indigenous rights
People & Culture
People & Culture
A new children’s book from Kids Can Press tells the story of Vancouver native Simon Jackson’s efforts to raise global awareness of the importance of British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest
People & Culture
#MuseumSelfie trended on Twitter January 20th as people the world over shared their snaps.
Science & Tech
Artificial intelligence combines with social-media analysis to inform first responders and scientists
Science & Tech
Science & Tech
Science & Tech
Science & Tech
How so-called rare earth elements are powering our modern tech — and where to find them
History
Our experts continue their discussion of the AMC series about the Franklin Expedition
History
Wildlife
Plus: Marathon hare migrations, increasingly efficient wolves, wandering basking sharks and homemaking bees
Wildlife
Why Canada’s cougars are on the rise — and what that means for us
Science & Tech
The creator and host of the popular Shots of Awe series on YouTube embarks on a four-city Canadian speaking tour next month
Wildlife
Environment
A former firefighter offers a glimpse at the day-to-day lives of the men and women who rush into danger each summer to protect life and property
Wildlife
Wildlife
Whales are beginning to return to B.C. waters — but will they find a safe haven?
Wildlife
North America’s monarch butterfly population has more than tripled in Mexico this winter, despite reaching dangerously low numbers in the past
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
Did you know polar bears aren't actually white? Or that bears mark their territory by rubbing their backs on trees?
Wildlife
A one-year pilot project is underway in an effort to protect threatened caribou populations in the territory, but some conservation groups say wolf culls miss the bigger picture
Wildlife
The decrease in human activity could be the reason
Wildlife
Wildlife
How to attract monarch butterflies to your backyard — and help save the endangered species
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
And moreover, should it? Plus: Dinosaur fight club, birds about town, and tracking whale whoops
People & Culture
From documenting rock-hewn churches in Ethiopia to sonar-scanning B.C. waters for steam-era shipwrecks, see what just a few of the RCGS’s more than 1,000 Fellows are working on in 2018
Exploration
A Royal Canadian Geographical Society-supported expedition has added to the inventory of known caves in a little-explored region
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.
People & Culture
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People & Culture
People & Culture
Canadian Paralympians and Para athletes join the mission to increase trail accessibility across Canada
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
Environment
Now there's a way to visualize exactly what a record warm year globally meant in your city
Environment
Fire activity in the Brazilian Amazon surged this week; here are some key things to know about the situation
Exploration
Resilience pays off during a challenging effort to explore new leads in Canada’s deepest cave
Environment
A major research project from the University of Alberta outlines pockets of Canada's boreal forest that may give wildlife more time and space to adjust to a changing climate
Environment
As trees were cleared for farmland beginning in the 1830s, nitrogen levels in the lake began to rise
Environment
A love story about a wild river
Environment
Fire detection, forecasting, management — and how decisions are made
People & Culture
Memoirs, a graphic novel and the biography of a famous ship are among Canadian Geographic's choices for the 14 best books of the year
Environment
An excerpt from “We Always Begin with an Acknowledgement of the Land” by Amish Morrell
People & Culture
People & Culture
The Amazing Race Canada host and Olympic gold medallist in skeleton reminisces about his grandparents’ cabin in Manitoba’s Riding Mountain National Park
Travel
Here are the best items we tested for our Gear Review series in 2017
Science & Tech
When it detects whales, the glider sends a signal to nearby ships
Travel
Thompson, Manitoba is trying to gain some international wildlife recognition
Places
A guide to visiting the Ontario National Park
Travel
How the CBFA's big-picture plan for Saskatchewan works, and why it matters
Kids
People & Culture
Meet the Haida carver working on the first totem pole to be raised in Gwaii Haanas, B.C. in more than a century
People & Culture