One year post-legalization, a look at Canada’s changing relationship with pot

Your weekly CanGeo round-up of wildlife news

A celebration of the Canadian Coast Guard’s renowned search-and-rescue capabilities — and more — as the special operating agency turns 60

A conversation with Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques, who is getting ready to travel to the International Space Station 

For the latest image in his iconic Day to Night series, photographer Stephen Wilkes set his sights on an important ecological reserve in British Columbia. Here's why. 

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?

The Environment and Climate Change minister shares insights from her recent tour of Labrador's Nunatsiavut region and Torngat Mountains National Park

The B.C. based biologist reflects on her decades long fight to preserve the ecosystem she calls home

The United Nations Decade of Ocean Science kicks off Feb. 3, 2021

Researchers from the international PoLAR-FIT team are revealing a four-million-year-old forest beautifully preserved in permafrost and peat on Nunavut’s Ellesmere Island

Doing your part as an eco-conscious consumer doesn’t end once you buy a bioplastic product

David McGuffin shares insights from his daily log during his summer 2018 expedition retracing a legendary trek on the Yukon’s Peel River

The president of the National Inuit Youth Council talks climate change, women's issues and Inuit culture

Remembering Louie Kamookak, a new Explorer-in-Residence and other highlights from the 89th Annual College of Fellows Dinner

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.

New technology is helping researchers understand how birds time their migrations when the seasons send mixed signals

The slowdown of human activity as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to some surprising benefits for wildlife conservation. Can we keep them going after the danger has passed?

This map, “taken on the spot in the year 1768,” tells but a tiny piece of the story of Newfoundland’s bygone Beothuk

The mismanagement of personal protective equipment waste is contributing to environmental degradation

Photographer Martin Gregus recounts his summer 2020 expedition to the western coast of Hudson Bay in northern Manitoba

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

The Bank of Canada has announced that Viola Desmond will become the first Canadian woman to be featured on a regularly circulating banknote in 2018

Phyllis Webstad turns her residential school experience into a powerful tool for reconciliation through Orange Shirt Day

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.

Photos that bring us peace from our Can Geo Photo Club members

How the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences is helping shape the continent's future

Live Net Zero Challenge (2022)

Ten caracasses of the critically endangered whale have been found in the past two months. 

Understanding the effects of disturbances on killer whales

Your weekly CanGeo round-up of wildlife news

Sydni Long writes about her experience using citizen-reported sightings for the Ocean Bridge program

Artists aim to connect with beluga whales through music

And moreover, should it? Plus: Dinosaur fight club, birds about town, and tracking whale whoops

Increase in whale strandings during periods of intense solar activity suggests whales may attune to Earth’s magnetic field for navigation

International grassroots organizations unite over turtle conservation