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How a natural compound called hexanal is helping prevent India’s lucrative fruit crops from spoiling
Every year, up to 40 per cent of India’s lucrative fruit harvest is lost. A naturally occurring compound called hexanal could help change that. Part of an ongoing series of stories about innovative projects in the developing world, a partnership between the International Development Research Centre and Canadian Geographic.
Visit the Charting Change website to read “Stopping the rot.”
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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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Volunteers are collecting samples from bigleaf maples to prevent illegal logging
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Upgrade your Canadian trivia skills with some lesser-known facts about Canada’s seventh province
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The story of how a critically endangered Indigenous language can be saved