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?

Plus: skydiving salamanders, Canada’s returning monarch, orca blubber insights, and the woodpecker-wasp conservation dream team. 

Winning gold 100 years ago in Antwerp, Belgium, Canada’s team set a standard for Olympic hockey dominance that would last for three more successive Games

First Nations and scientists work side by side to better understand — and protect — coastal wolves living in the Great Bear Rainforest

The re-release of Owen Beattie and John Geiger's Frozen in Time introduces a new generation to a captivating — and still unsolved — mystery 

Notable works capture the danger and drama of Arctic exploration

During Truth and Reconciliation Commission events, personal items were placed in a carved bentwood box to symbolize the journey toward reconciliation. How far have we come?

Grade 9 student William Chapman claimed Canada’s top geography prize 

Plus: Marathon hare migrations, increasingly efficient wolves, wandering basking sharks and homemaking bees

A sneak peek at Canada's top wildlife photos in our new special collector's edition

On the 175th anniversary of Canada’s first telegraph message, a pioneering telegrapher recalls her exciting career

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

In 1929, J. Dewey Soper’s quest to find the breeding grounds of the blue goose ended, thanks in part to this marvelously detailed hand-drawn map

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?

The history behind the Dundas name change and how Canadians are reckoning with place name changes across the country — from streets to provinces

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Here's a bit of what The Royal Canadian Geographical Society got up to in October.

It's been an exciting couple of months for The Royal Canadian Geographical Society

A new book remembers famed the Onondaga distance runner and explores how Canada uses sport to police Indigenous bodies and identities

A Spokane, Wash. man’s joke plan to send wildfire smoke back to B.C. got serious uptake

A writer follows his relatives' path across "The Rock", 80 years after they helped put it on the map

Three Canadian photojournalists among those honoured for visual storytelling 

Messages of support have been pouring in for the beloved television personality and Honorary President of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society

Elamin Abdelmahmoud, commentateur culturel et politique pour CBC et Buzzfeed, estime que le Canada réussit parfois, échoue souvent, mais continue d'essayer

Elamin Abdelmahmoud, a pop culture and political commentator with CBC and Buzzfeed, explores the tension between the idea and the practice of multiculturalism in Canada — especially if you are a public figure of colour

On April 1, 1999, Canada’s youngest population took control of its largest territory. Here’s how Canadian Geographic covered the story. 

Five eco-friendly products used around the world to create paper

The report contains both optimism and warnings as Canada and its watersheds struggle with the twin crises of biodiversity loss and climate change

Trees in tropical regions of the globe can withstand temperatures up to 32.3 degrees Celsius and still effectively store carbon

Climatologist David Phillips explores the meteorological legacy of the Great Lakes Storm of 1913

An insider’s account of the modern-day gold rush

Whales are beginning to return to B.C. waters — but will they find a safe haven?

North America’s monarch butterfly population has more than tripled in Mexico this winter, despite reaching dangerously low numbers in the past

Warmer water caused by weather phenomenon the likely reason for the abundance of the tiny oily fish

Congratulations to the students of Butler Elementary School from Bedford, Que.

Highlights and headlines from the world of wildlife this week

A conversation with Drew Feustel, the most recent commander of the International Space Station and a dual U.S.-Canadian citizen, who returned to Earth in October after more than six months in orbit 

Editor-in-chief and associate publisher Aaron Kylie contributed this chapter to a compilation book about the Canada Jay

 These less-than-conventional methods might be the future front lines of fighting climate change

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