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From moon joy to space-station joy: Astronaut Josh Kutryk speaks about his upcoming mission
Kutryk says Canada has a crucial role to play in the ‘new ocean’ of space
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Exploring “Superior Maximus,” the deepest point in the Great Lakes
Follow along live as a team of filmmakers reveals the depths of Lake Superior in unprecedented detail
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Walking with the herd
An immersive Yukon art installation brings caribou — and conservation — into focus
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Raising a glass to the Okanagan’s Half Corked Marathon
Part costume party, part wine tour and part half-marathon, this annual event through the vineyards of B.C.’s Osoyoos-Oliver Wine Region, offers a uniquely Canadian way to experience wine country
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Retracing a historic fur trade route across Quebec with Bruno Forest
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Family-friendly caving in Canada: Five underground adventures for kids
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DNA match identifies four more crew members from ill-fated Franklin expedition
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Into the Carpathians: Skiing Ukraine’s highest peaks with Laval St. Germain
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The hidden life of Canada’s frozen lakes with Andrew Budziak and Andy Bramburger
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Testing my limits in Arctic Norway
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Scientists measured Toronto’s winter air pollution. Some of their findings were surprising
02Des scientifiques ont mesuré la pollution atmosphérique hivernale à Toronto. Certaines de leurs conclusions sont surprenantes.
03This is what it’s really like to do science at sea
04Canada’s ‘moon joy’ will continue long past Artemis II. Here’s what’s next for our space program
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At the edge of the world with Louise K. Blight
Episode 127
The conservation scientist and seabird researcher shares her insights on studying Adélie penguins in Antarctica and what it’s like to live in one of Earth’s most remote research stations
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Searching for life beyond Earth with Sara Seager
Episode 124
The Toronto-born astrophysicist and MIT planetary scientist shares her thoughts on deep space, leading robot missions to Venus and more
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200 km across the Atacama: Ray Zahab on survival, heat, and the edge of human limits
Episode 123
Running a marathon a day in extreme heat, the ultra-endurance athlete’s latest expedition shows what resilience looks like and what humans are capable of
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Exploration
Painting the North: Following the spirit of the Group of Seven with Adventure Canada
Episode 28
Launching in August, 2027 in collaboration with the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, this bold new Arctic expedition will guide travellers through some of the same waters that inspired some of Canada’s most iconic artists
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Sacred waters: the north’s most precious resource
Great Slave Lake’s giant water spirit; fears over downstream contamination among topics explored by award-winning Dene author Katłı̨̀ą Lafferty in this excerpt from her latest book
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Kids
Close finish for 2026 Canadian Geographic Challenge
20 students from across the country attend finals in Ottawa where a new champion was crowned
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Wildlife
La couleuvre verte lisse est-elle vraiment aussi rare qu’elle en a l’air, ou est-elle simplement très difficile à apercevoir?
Des chercheurs de l’Île-du-Prince-Édouard font appel à des citoyens scientifiques pour en savoir plus
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Wildlife
Are smooth greensnakes really as rare as they seem to be — or just crazy hard to find?
Researchers in P.E.I. enlist the help of citizen scientists to get closer to a definitive answer
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Environment
Great expectations for the Great Lakes
More than five decades on, the landmark Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement still governs important cooperative work between Canada and the United States to restore the Great Lakes to sustainability
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Des grandes attentes pour les Grands Lacs
Plus de cinquante ans après sa signature, l’Accord relatif à la qualité de l’eau dans les Grands Lacs, traité historique, continue de régir l’importante collaboration entre le Canada et les États-Unis visant à rétablir la santé des Grands Lacs
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Environment
It was a family ranch for generations. Now, it’s protected as native prairie grassland
An Albertan with deep roots in the Prairies donated 507 hectares of native prairie grassland along the Oldman River to be conserved under the federal government’s Ecological Gifts Program, which offers significant tax benefits for landowners willing to donate ecologically sensitive land
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Environment
Scientists discovered the same fungus 40 years and an ocean apart. A mycologist explains how
For mycologist Greg Thorn, the two chance discoveries reveal how little we know about fungi
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Environment
Le Canada s’est doté d’un nouveau système d’alerte météorologique. Voici la signification des couleurs et la marche à suivre en cas d’intempéries.
Comprendre le nouveau système d’alerte météorologique du Canada – et savoir quoi faire en cas d’intempéries majeures
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Comment la baignade a fait son retour au centre-ville d’Ottawa
Autrefois jugées trop polluées pour s’y baigner, les zones de baignade de la Maison riveraine et du lac Dow, dans la capitale, offrent désormais aux baigneurs urbains de nouveaux endroits pour se rafraîchir.
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How swimming returned to downtown Ottawa
Once considered too polluted for bathers, the capital’s River House and Dow’s Lake swimming areas give city swimmers new places to beat the heat
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Steeltown stewardship: How Hamilton, Ont. plans to protect its waterfalls
Hamilton has one of the world’s highest concentrations of waterfalls per capita. A new strategy aims to combat overtourism at some of its most popular sites.
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C’était un ranch familial depuis des générations. Aujourd’hui, il est protégé en tant que prairie indigène.
Une Albertaine profondément enraciné dans les Prairies a fait don de 507 hectares de prairie indigène le long de la rivière Oldman pour être conservés dans le cadre du Programme des dons écologiques du gouvernement fédéral, qui offre d’importants avantages fiscaux aux propriétaires fonciers disposés à donner des terres écologiquement sensibles
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Troubling signs of climate change are showing up on Nova Scotia’s remote Sable Island
Despite its isolation, tiny Sable Island is a microcosm of the broader environmental forces reshaping our world
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Every bird counted on Point Pelee, Ont. in one year
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En chiffres : Les paysages protégés et les oiseaux qui y vivent
Wildlife
By the numbers: Protected landscapes and the birds that live there
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Une visite à la réserve faunique nationale de Baie de l’Isle-Verte, au Québec, où la vie suit le rythme des marées
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Pour les oiseaux! Cartographie des 92 refuges d’oiseaux migrateurs du Canada
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For the birds! Mapping Canada’s 92 migratory bird sanctuaries
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La lente remontée : sauver les marmottes de l’île de Vancouver
Une petite armée de scientifiques, de défenseurs de l’environnement et de bénévoles coopère pour assurer le succès du rétablissement du mammifère le plus menacé du Canada.
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Avec seulement 21 hectares, l’île Country de la Nouvelle-Écosse joue un rôle important dans la conservation des oiseaux
Cette petite île rocheuse a été classée Réserve nationale de faune en 2025, en reconnaissance de son importance pour de nombreuses espèces d’oiseaux, notamment la gracieuse sterne de Dougall, qui est en voie de disparition au Canada
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Plan a visit to one of these nine national wildlife areas near cities in Canada
Hiking trails, paddling, birdwatching, educational activities and more — all within easy reach of urban areas
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Planifiez une visite dans l’une de ces neuf réserves nationales de faune situées près des villes du Canada
Des sentiers de randonnée, du canotage, des activités éducatives et plus encore — situées à proximité immédiate des zones urbaines
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Inciter les enfants à se déconnecter et à aller dehors est un défi. Les guides Curieux de nature peuvent y contribuer.
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Getting kids to unplug and go outside is a challenge. Curious by Nature guides can help
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At just 21 hectares, Nova Scotia’s Country Island plays an outsized role in bird conservation
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A visit to Quebec’s Baie de L’Isle-Verte National Wildlife Area, where life moves with the tides
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Monitoring migration through the Nisutlin River Delta National Wildlife Area
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Suivi des migrations dans la réserve nationale de faune du Delta-de-la-Rivière-Nisutlin
May/June 2026
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On the map: Examining historic Inuit migration routes between Canada and Greenland
02Canada has a new weather alerting system. Here’s what the colours mean — and what to do when severe weather strikes
03How Last Mountain Lake, Sask. became Canada’s first migratory bird sanctuary
04“It’s almost like a treasure hunt:” investigating deepsea corals off Newfoundland’s Grand Banks
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People & Culture
AI can help protect threatened languages — but it can also exploit them
While racing to protect cultural knowledge from extraction and misuse, Indigenous innovators are developing AI and virtual reality tools to teach, preserve and carry their languages into the future
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People & Culture
Robert Bateman and Bristol Foster on friendship, nature and the meaning of life
Two eminent Canadian naturalists reflect on their lifelong friendship and adventures around the globe
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Science & Tech
Fearfully great lizards: A brief history of how we know what we know about dinosaurs
Technology is radically changing our understanding of how dinosaurs looked and behaved, revealing a far more dynamic prehistoric world than we ever imagined
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Wildlife
Partenaires de protection
Alliant valeurs écologiques et culturelles, et grâce à la participation de près d’une vingtaine de partenaires en matière de planification, la mer de Great Bear en Colombie-Britannique est un modèle de coopération en matière de conservation.
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Caribou people: The story of conserving the Porcupine caribou herd is a story about working together
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The long climb back: Saving the Vancouver Island marmot
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When the wild goes quiet
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The birds who call us home
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Born for this: unravelling the disappearance of Dall sheep
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In Patagonia, volunteers are rebuilding more than just a trail
This international volunteer program in Chile’s Torres del Paine National Park is rebuilding the famed Base Torres route to protect a fragile landscape from erosion and overuse
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Fifty shades of blue: Chasing paradise in The Exumas
A Bahamian archipelago of 365 sun-drenched cays offers iconic wildlife and bucket-list beaches
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Serious racing, serious fun: Inside the St. Maarten Heineken Regatta
On the dual-nation island of Saint Martin/Sint Maarten, one of the Caribbean’s biggest sailing races blends high-stakes competition with culture, history and coastal adventure
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An explorer’s guide to Guadeloupe
Discover the French Caribbean archipelago through an interactive map highlighting the islands’ best adventures, from below the waves to above the clouds
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A bucket list glamping adventure in La Paz, Mexico
Robin Esrock swaps Cabo’s mega-resorts for marine life, desert ranches and off-grid coastal camps
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“These places are inhabited” — documentary explores the meaning of wild
Ethnographers Phillip and April Vannini discuss their film Inhabited, an exploration of the perspectives of people who live in Canada’s UNESCO Natural World Heritage sites
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Exploration
Iconic moments from the Artemis II mission to the moon and back
Canadian Geographic and RCGS staff and Fellows share their favourite moments, images and videos from the 10-day mission that changed how we view the moon — and ourselves
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Science & Tech
Artemis II astronauts have returned safely to Earth following historic mission around the moon
Canadian Geographic is following this history-making mission, which saw Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen become the first Canadian to fly around the moon
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Science & Tech
Hard core: How scientists drilled a record ice core in the Canadian High Arctic
An ice core from the Canadian Arctic’s Axel Heiberg Island, the deepest drilled in the Americas, is a record of ancient sea ice past
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Environment
Waterkeeper: how water can be a blueprint for peace
For Bashar Alshawwa, water is not just a basic need — it is both the heart of global inequality and the key to peace. After decades of occupation, exile and war, he is working to turn a weaponized resource into a bridge between peoples.
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People & Culture
Tyonnhehkwen: The life sustainers
Weaving together Indigenous Knowledges and settler wisdom to work with the land that feeds us
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History
Polar Sea, on guard for thee — or not
Veteran journalist and governor-general spouse Whit Fraser recalls diplomatic row with U.S. over 1980s naval excursion into Canada’s High Arctic in excerpt from latest book
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Autrefois centre de l’industrie lourde, le lac Big Glace Bay, en Nouvelle-Écosse, est aujourd’hui un refuge florissant pour la faune sauvage
La désignation du lac Big Glace Bay en tant que réserve nationale de faune en 2022 marque une étape décisive dans un effort mené depuis des décennies pour favoriser le rétablissement et la prospérité des pluviers siffleurs. Elle permet également de protéger un habitat essentiel pour la migration automnale de nombreuses espèces de sauvagine.
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It used to host heavy industry. Now, Big Glace Bay Lake, N.S. is flourishing as a home for wildlife
The 2022 designation of Big Glace Bay Lake as a national wildlife area is a key step in a decades-long effort to help piping plovers recover and thrive. It also protects crucial fall migration habitat for many species of waterfowl.
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People & Culture
How Indigenous culture shapes the Arctic Winter Games
Arctic sports and Dene games test pain resistance, agility and strength
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History
Traces in the valley: on the Japanese Canadian Legacy Trail
Rediscovering the Slocan Valley, B.C., on the new trail that honours the memories and legacies of interned Japanese Canadians
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Comment le Lac-Last Mountain est devenu le premier sanctuaire d’oiseaux migrateurs du Canada
Le Lac-Last Mountain est un refuge pour des centaines de milliers d’oiseaux migrateurs chaque printemps
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Deep, dark secrets
Pioneering cave diver Jill Heinerth sheds light on Canada’s longest underwater cave system beneath the Kichi Sibi Watershed
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People & Culture
Changes in the land, changes in us
His grandparents passed away a long time ago, and their house and small dock are also long gone. Now an old man with his own children and grandchildren, he remembers what was lost when the St. Lawrence Seaway was built
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Before Paris, there was Toronto — where Ernest Hemingway learned to write
The renowned journalist-turned-novelist’s time in Toronto forged the discipline and voice that would eventually earn him the Nobel Prize in literature
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Featured Fellow: Annabel Slaight
The Canadian author, environmental advocate and co-founder of the OWL, Chickadee, and Chirp magazines shares how she got into the publishing industry and connecting children with science
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Canada Explained
Explore stories about Canada’s environment and wildlife and the areas set aside to protect them. Produced in partnership with Environment and Climate Change Canada. / Découvrez des articles sur l’environnement et la faune du Canada, ainsi que sur les zones protégées. Une production réalisé en partenariat avec Environnement et Changement climatique Canada.