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Following Greenland Sharks in Canada’s Arctic
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Tracking sea turtles
International grassroots organizations unite over turtle conservation
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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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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
Alberta app to track moose population across the province
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Exploration
Exploration
Re-measuring Canada’s highest mountain
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
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Exploration
The cool calling: Glaciologist Alison Criscitiello is redefining the term explorer
She's also combining her knowledge and skills to uncover the secrets of climate change
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Exploration
Going deep for discovery: ocean exploration reaches new lows
Meet Limiting Factor, the submersible leading us to new depths of ocean exploration
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Exploration
Retracing the Carnegie Expeditions in Northern Quebec
We aim to experience and share the vast, little-publicized wilderness of Nunavik, formerly known as Ungava
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Wildlife
Wildlife
New research offers insight into the skin care routine of bowhead whales
Wildlife
Migration in the time of climate change
Wildlife
The cat came back: Canada’s cougar comeback
Wildlife
Caribou are vanishing at an alarming rate. Is it too late to save them?
Wildlife
The erosion of Ontario’s Endangered Species Act threatens iconic Algonquin wolf
Wildlife
Giants of the Broughtons
Environment
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
Fires are burning in the Amazon rainforest. Here’s what you need to know
Fire activity in the Brazilian Amazon surged this week; here are some key things to know about the situation
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Environment
How much warmer than normal was your city in 2015?
Now there's a way to visualize exactly what a record warm year globally meant in your city
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Environment
Eco-friendly paper
Five eco-friendly products used around the world to create paper
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Environment
The power we have to renew a world in peril
In an exclusive excperpt from his new book Commanding Hope, Thomas Homer-Dixon highlights four key stresses that inhibit society's collective sense of a promising future for our planet
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People & Culture
People & Culture
12 Canadian photographers share the nature they love
We asked some of Canada’s most accomplished photographers why they dedicate their time to capturing images of nature. Here’s what they said.
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People & Culture
Why the North Pole matters: An important history of challenges and global fascination
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.
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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
Welcome to Flat Earth 101*
*Do your own research
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People & Culture
Photographing Toronto’s diversity
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Travel
Mapping
Mapping
Mapping the future of sustainable agriculture
This online map platform displays hundreds of stories on ecological farming issues from around the world
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Mapping
Our best maps of 2018
Cartographic highlights from Canadian Geographic’s 2018 issues
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Mapping
Toronto exhibition celebrates maps as works of art
Art of Cartography exhibit at the Toronto Public Library features visually stunning maps from the 15th through the 19th centuries
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Mapping
Google Street View maps more of Canada’s north
Thanks to Google’s popular Street View tool, armchair travelers can now explore three northern towns from the comfort of their desktop
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Articles
Wildlife
Federal government announces new measures to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales
Wildlife
How citizen scientists solved a migration mystery
Wildlife
“Whale superhighway” map marks World Whale Day
People & Culture
Traditional trapping in the North
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Canadians share their love for museums with selfies
History
Operation Husky: Reflections on a forgotten story
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Exploration
Following Shackleton to South Georgia Island
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Exploration
Last icy stand: Scaling Mount Logan
Four researchers team up to ascend Mount Logan, measuring change and resilience on Canada’s highest peak
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Exploration
Subterranean trailblazers
Caving: The ultimate underground sport
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Travel
How to stop a gold rush
The new movement building flourishing tourism hubs across Canada – one sustainable example at a time
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People & Culture
The symbolism of refugee ‘arrival kits’
The items given to Syrian refugees — warm clothing, DVDs, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms — represent more than just practical considerations; they're the building blocks of a shared Canadian identity
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Kids
Mapping Canada’s history of residential schools with Google Earth
As the first Canadian organization to launch a story with Google Earth Voyager, Canadian Geographic, with the support of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, offers an in-depth look at the residential school system
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Travel
Mist-shrouded peaks and macchiatos: A summer sojourn in the Alps
Testing Columbia Sportswear's newest gear in the birthplace of mountain climbing
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Wildlife
Bison to return to Banff National Park
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Wildlife
Shark tag finds its way home
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Wildlife
Managing the white-tailed deer population
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Wildlife
The big bad wolf?
Exploring our love-hate relationship with the wolf
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Wildlife
The great green shark hunt
Can British Columbia’s spiny dogfish make the grade as the world’s first “sustainable” shark fishery?
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Wildlife
Map tracks polar bears in Hudson Bay
See where 14 polar bears are moving through Hudson Bay, and learn their stories.
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Wildlife
Battle to save the sage grouse goes to court
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Wildlife
Canada’s “New Noah”
This year Patrick Moldowan has been selected to be Wildlife Preservation Canada’s “New Noah”.
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Environment
How companies and communities are fighting the problem of plastic pollution
Fast food chains, municipalities and even Ikea have recently pledged to phase out single-use plastics
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Environment
Canada bans import and export of shark fins
The ban is one of several significant and long-awaited changes to the federal Fisheries Act that passed Tuesday, including new provisions to rebuild depleted fish stocks
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Environment
Canada’s greenest prof
Vancouver might just be home to the greenest building in the world. Meet the geography professor who brought it to life.
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Travel
Could this be the new Wolf Capital of the World?
Thompson, Manitoba is trying to gain some international wildlife recognition
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Science & Tech
World Oceans Day: Building a more sustainable ocean future — one worker at a time
Part three of Canada’s Ocean Supercluster: A six-part series
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Science & Tech
Small-scale energy projects aim to help northern communities
Part two of Canada’s Ocean Supercluster: A six-part series
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Science & Tech
Canadian technology takes ocean mapping to new depths
Researchers and industry leaders now have quicker access to data showing the complexity of the world’s seabed. Part five of Canada’s Ocean Supercluster: A six-part series.
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History
10 surprising facts about Canadians in cinema
Happy National Canadian Film Day! Here's some fun facts about Canadians in cinema
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History
Throwback Thursday: The creation of the Canol Pipeline
The story of the Canol Pipeline, one of WWII’s most unusual construction projects, and one of its most enduringly beneficial.
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Science & Tech
The Arctic voyages of the intrepid ringed seal
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Science & Tech
Testing, testing: Inuit hunters and scientists work together to ensure walrus meat safe to eat
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A data revolution is helping to keep workers safe from storms at sea
Part 4 of Canada’s Ocean Supercluster: a six-part series
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People & Culture
The RCGS announces Nikon Canada as its Official Photography Partner
Two iconic brands known for exceptional photography join forces to inspire the next generation of photographers
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Live Net Zero Rules and Regulations
Live Net Zero Challenge (2022)
People & Culture
Excerpt from Following the Good River
Following the Good River is a biography of Cecil Paul's life as one North American’s more prominent Indigenous leaders.
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People & Culture
Tom Longboat, Indigenous self-determination and discrimination in sport
A new book remembers famed the Onondaga distance runner and explores how Canada uses sport to police Indigenous bodies and identities
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People & Culture
Seven more amazing things RCGS Fellows are up to this year
From a solo ski and mountain-climbing expedition to the South Pole to a project that mapped portions of Devon Island’s coasts for the first time, see what just a few of the RCGS’s Fellows have been working on in late 2018
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People & Culture
Exclusive: Adam Shoalts on his epic Trans-Canadian Arctic Expedition
Explorer Adam Shoalts, who completed his monumental 4,000-kilometre journey on September 6, speaks to Canadian Geographic about an expedition that calls to mind the likes of Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Joseph Tyrrell
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People & Culture
Explorer Adam Shoalts reaches end of 4,000-kilometre Trans-Canadian Arctic Expedition
Shoalts, once dubbed 'Canada's Indiana Jones,' reached Baker Lake, Nunavut, yesterday after nearly four months of trekking and paddling Canada's mainland Arctic.
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People & Culture
See how an Inuit designer combines fashion and tradition using sealskin
Nicole Camphaug is one of a new generation of Inuit designers who are pushing the boundaries of traditional uses for sealskin
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People & Culture
The truth about trailblazing
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People & Culture
Climbing Mt. Logan
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People & Culture
New Land Expedition: Welcoming the dogs
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People & Culture
Expedition on Baffin Island explores historic traditions
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People & Culture
Titanic talk
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Places
Rouge Urban National Park set to expand by 17 square kilometres
Land that had been part of the park since 2015 will be federally recognized if Senate passes bill C-18
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Travel
Le Tour de Banff
It’s helmets on for the Banff National Park Bike Fest
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Mapping
Excerpt of new book Mapping My Way Home: A Gitxsan History
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Mapping
Artist uses GPS tracking to write giant message across globe
This artist travelled the world and used his GPS tracked movements to write 'PEACE' across a Google map of the world
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