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Five key takeaways from the Arctic Frontiers conference
The uncertainty and change that's currently disrupting the region dominated the annual meeting's agenda
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Environment
The uncertainty and change that's currently disrupting the region dominated the annual meeting's agenda
Mapping
A stunning archive of traditional Inuit knowledge has been preserved online, thanks to a new digital atlas that showcases the findings from the Fifth Thule Expedition
Mapping
The staff of the Inuit Heritage Trust is racing across Canada’s North to document traditional Inuit place names before much of that knowledge passes on with the elders who hold it. Canadian Geographic sits down with lead researcher Lynn Peplinski.
Science & Tech
Set to launch later this year in Clyde River, Nunavut, digital atlases of Inuit place names, wildlife habitat, scientific studies and more are already benefiting communities in the Arctic
Science & Tech
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
A total of $2,566,000 was awarded to five Northern Indigenous programs at a ceremony in Whitehorse Feb. 12
Wildlife
First Nations and scientists work side by side to better understand — and protect — coastal wolves living in the Great Bear Rainforest
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
Mapping
The 400-layer map will connect communities, celebrate culture and share data to protect the Howe Sound ecosystem
Environment
The spider's web is the perfect metaphor for the interconnections between species, people and place
People & Culture
A look back at some of the amazing projects that have won the $1-million Arctic Inspiration Prize
People & Culture
“His life’s work held true:” Leona Aglukkaq, former Minister of Environment and Parks Canada, on the admired Inuit oral historian
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
The Inuit Circumpolar Council’s chair on how Inuit are speaking up about climate change with a global voice
Places
Responding to feedback from Canadians, environment minister Catherine McKenna promised a renewed focus on science and conservation for Canada's protected places
Environment
How a cocktail of invasive species and global change is altering the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River ecosystem
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
Environment
What can we learn when western science and traditional knowledge intersect?
Environment
The Anthropocene is a proposed geological epoch dating from the commencement of significant human impact on Earth's geology and ecosystems
Environment
Through the Key Biodiversity Areas program, rare, endemic and underappreciated species are finally getting their due as important components of their ecosystems
Environment
Vancouver might just be home to the greenest building in the world. Meet the geography professor who brought it to life.
Environment
The James Bay Lowlands in northern Ontario contain one of the largest potential mineral reserves in Canada. Now, the region’s economy and environment stand on the brink of massive transformation.
Wildlife
This past summer an ambitious wildlife under/overpass system broke ground in B.C. on a deadly stretch of highway just west of the Alberta border. Here’s how it happened.
Wildlife
With millions of photos taken globally each day on smartphones, researchers have found they may also contain important ecological clues about our rapidly changing planet
Wildlife
Wildlife
At least 50 species of fish can be found in the Arctic drainage basin in Ontario
The truth about polar bears
02New research into Arctic marine mammal movements aims to maintain the future of a traditional Inuit food source
03Remembering Inuit oral historian Louie Kamookak
04Chemist and Indigenous studies professor awarded $150,000 to study medicinal properties of birch bark
Kids
The Canadian Geographic Challenge is turning 20! To celebrate we’ve compiled a list of our favourite past quiz questions. Can you answer them correctly?
Kids
Kids
Meet the young geographers who will represent Canada on the world stage at the 2018 “iGeo” in Quebec City
Kids
People & Culture
Indigenous and Inuit communities are expressing concern as the threat of COVID-19 comes nearer to their communities
People & Culture
In celebration of its 90th year, the RCGS handed out awards to a diverse and star-studded roster of honourees
People & Culture
One of Canada’s leading chefs and Indigenous food experts on why making traditional Métis foods, including the harvesting of local ingredients, helps contribute to the preservation of the Michif language and identity
People & Culture
Inuit tattoos, or kakiniit, were once banned. Now they are worn with pride.
People & Culture
Award recipients honoured in the first virtual Annual General Meeting and Fellows Show.
Wildlife
Human and bears sharing more landscapes now than ever before. As we continue to invade their world, will we be able to coexist?
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.
Travel
The residents of eastern James Bay, or Eeyou Istchee (‘the people’s land’), are opening their territory to visitors. Here’s a glimpse at a few communities in the region.
Environment
Canada leads the developed world in per capita production of garbage. What’s behind our nation’s wasteful ways?
Mapping
Users can learn about the Indigenous territories, languages and treaties of the cities they live in with just a few clicks
Science & Tech
The new Canadian High Arctic Research Station is helping to create a positive working relationship between northern scientists and the local community
People & Culture
For my father and me, these journeys are both personal and political
Environment
Herb Norwegian, Grand Chief of the Dehcho First Nations, is the recipient of this year’s Glen Davis Conservation Leadership Prize
People & Culture
The latest in our Colour the Trail series
People & Culture
Robertson Trading Co. in La Ronge is a living museum to northern Saskatchewan’s storied past
People & Culture
Ambitious multi-platform, Indigenous-led project will be a tool for education and reconciliation
Travel
The new movement building flourishing tourism hubs across Canada – one sustainable example at a time
Science & Tech
On her first official visit to the Arctic as Science Minister, Kirsty Duncan drove home the importance of climate research, incorporating traditional knowledge, and funding for innovation and research
Science & Tech
Inuit experts and Environment Canada scientists are working together to manage an explosion in snow goose populations
Science & Tech
In the face of climate change, the government’s long-running Northern Scientific Training Program has never been more crucial
Science & Tech
Science & Tech
After years of planning, an innovative strategy to help a disappearing caribou population recover is nearly ready to roll out
Science & Tech
How a Université Laval scientist, DFO researchers and locals in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, are working together to keep these staple fish populations healthy
Science & Tech
What does it take to operate high-tech scientific facilities — including live-study growing chambers and necropsy, genomics and imaging labs — in Canada’s Arctic?
Science & Tech
Scientists currently have little understanding of the impacts of climate change on Arctic flora, but a group of Canadian researchers is working to change that
Science & Tech
Science & Tech
Researchers are shedding new light on northern food webs and environments by connecting disciplines and local knowledge — even by using different ships
Science & Tech
Inuit hunters and scientists are collaborating to record recent alarming shifts in Hudson Bay sea ice
Science & Tech
Science & Tech
Science & Tech
Navigating the the collaborative future between First Nations and the Canadian hydro industry
Mapping
This online map platform displays hundreds of stories on ecological farming issues from around the world
Mapping
Wildlife
Study highlights important interconnections between bears, salmon and humans for future management practices
Environment
Glaciers play a vital role in sculpting the landscape, and their retreat can bring about drastic consequences
Environment
The first-of-its-kind partnership will bolster city parks at a time when Canadians need them most
Environment
Environment
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?
Environment
A new study finds zoos and aquariums in Canada are publishing more peer-reviewed research, but there is still more to be done
History
Long before an amateur prospector struck it rich near Cobalt Lake in northern Ontario, local Indigenous nations mined and traded silver. It’s time to set the record straight on the “discovery” of Canada’s immense resource wealth.
Wildlife
International grassroots organizations unite over turtle conservation
Wildlife
Writer Stephen Smith takes to Newfoundland’s shores in his quest to see the ‘capelin roll’ — the spawning spectacle of a tiny fish with a massive ecological, historical and cultural impact
Wildlife
Has there ever been a national symbol more loathed or misunderstood? Has there ever been a more important time for the beaver to flourish?
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.
Wildlife
Key facts and figures about this remote patch of the Beaufort Sea
People & Culture
Free lesson plans on Franklin expedition now available in Inuktitut.
People & Culture
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.
People & Culture
The story of how a critically endangered Indigenous language can be saved
People & Culture
Nicole Camphaug is one of a new generation of Inuit designers who are pushing the boundaries of traditional uses for sealskin
People & Culture
Here are a few of the ways community-led projects, government programs and other organizations are helping to feed northern populations
People & Culture
Gardeners dig into a history of resilience to feed people during COVID-19
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