Monthly archives

May 2013
Tips for photographing flowers
Eat more insects with these recipes
The newly released Lowepro Sport Pro 30L AW
Quiz: Identify Canadian cities in astronaut Chris Hadfield's photos
Backgrounder: the Arctic Council
Scientists warn of Arctic Ocean acidification
Where is the solar max?
What's the value of peace of mind? A look at a pair of Pickpocket Proof Pants
Ten reasons why we love Chris Hadfield
Study: Male black widow spiders eat their mates too
How we chose the cover: June 2013
Five things we learned from StatsCan's National Household Survey
New Land Expedition: Halfway point
Snowshoe hares lose camouflage as climate warms
Canadian astronauts' hidden talents
Discretion is advised: Lowepro messenger 250


April 2013
New Land Expedition: Magic polar travel with dogs
Help us choose the June Canadian Geographic cover!
"Vanishing Point" documentary introduces audience to diverse northern cultures
New Land Expedition: Fun facts
Q&A: Wildlife Photographer Mike Beedell
Photo gallery: Rideau Valley Wildlife Sanctuary
New Land Expedition: Waiting for the resupply plane
How we chose the cover: Summer 2013 Travel
Canadian Museum of Nature festival brings the Arctic to the south
VIDEO: Here's what happens when you cry in space
Google Maps brings Street View to Canada's Parliament
Hiking on the Rocks: Mountain Equipment Co-op's Cragosaurus backpack
Alberta woman befriends great grey owl
How we chose the cover: Wicked Weather special edition


March 2013
Manitoba class receives hundreds of postcards from across Canada
Help us choose the May Canadian Geographic Travel cover!
New Land Expedition: Welcoming the dogs
Speaker Series: Storm chaser George Kourounis
Introducing the 2013 RCGS expeditions
Help us choose the Wicked Weather Photos 2013 cover!
Your Pets photo contest
Aglukkaq welcomes Google Street View
VIDEO: CG cartographer Chris Brackley shares his passion for maps
Introducing Canadian Geographic's new senior editor
VIDEO: How to become a cartographer
The Wildlife Photographer's Toolkit: Nikon's 70-200 mm f/4 lens
Proposed changes to Ontario's Endangered Species Act raise concerns
VIDEO: Famous Canada lynx spotted again
VIDEO: Maps of Canadian Geographic
VIDEO: The makings of a Canadian Geographic map
Stompin' Tom Connors's songs mapped
VIDEO: Interview with CG cartographer Chris Brackley
Help us choose the April Canadian Geographic cover!
This Manitoba class wants your postcards


February 2013
What happened to the flying car?
Parks Canada worker captures rare Canada lynx video
See a need, fill a need: A Canadian tech start-up tackles a backcountry battery problem
10 fascinating historic maps of the Arctic
Q&A: Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield
Canada's most romantic place names
Humans of Sackville photography project unites community
Farewell to the Canadian penny
Winter wonderland in Ottawa


January 2013
Open letter to Canada's Arctic chair from climate change group
Halifax group gives heritage home new life
Whatever the weather photo contest
How much do you know about Canadian geography?
Geography education in Quebec: not all bad news
A timelapse video of the northern lights
Auroras from space
Killer whales trapped in ice in northern Quebec
Dispatches from Antarctica: South Shetland Islands


December 2012
Breakfast on the Hill
Book Review — Everest: High Expectations
Dispatches from Antarctica: South Georgia
Geo news of the week: endangered species, Saskitoba and a railroad to the Arctic
How dark is the night?
Underwater emperor penguin shot wins Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest
Dispatches from Antarctica: the Falkland Islands


November 2012
Google Street View shows off Arctic Canada
Voices from the Yukon's Peel watershed land-use debate
The view from above
Win a class trip to the Fortress of Louisbourg
Announcing the 2012 Wildlife Photography of the Year winners
You Are Here - CG 180


October 2012
World views: Think global, shoot local
River guide
Boreal guardians, Part II
Of movie stars and monarchs


September 2012
Boreal guardians: Embedded with a Canadian forest fire team in northern Ontario
How to survive a waterfall
Sailing through the Northwest Passage


August 2012
Circling the Midnight Sun: Reindeer calling on the Kola Peninsula
Ready for a wilderness adventure? Take the quiz!
A historic passage
The end of the world
Storytelling and sense of place
How do Canadians define beauty?
Glamorous camping in the Yukon wilderness
The loneliness of wilderness
Students on Ice: Not quite stuck in Iqaluit
A day in the life of a student on ice


July 2012
North-bound from Eternity
What does silence sound like?
Klondicitis: Still potent after more than a century
Mt Saskatchewan 2012 Part IV: No peak left behind
Digging into the past
Learning the land
Are silence and solitude valuable?
The truth about trailblazing
Mt Saskatchewan 2012 Part III: Turning back
Dog house blues
Mt. Saskatchewan 2012 Part II: Weather rules
Fossils: Lost and found...and lost again
Yukon summer adventure: Notes from Fort Selkirk
Grisly weather in grizzly territory
Fowl play on the Yukon River
Passage Through Ice: Approaching the Arctic
Canada's latest UNESCO World Heritage Site
The truth about adventure


June 2012
Yukon summer adventure: The fine art of atlatl throwing
Yukon summer adventure: Hitting the trail
Mt. Sasktachewan 2012 Part I: Stuck in a blizzard
Coppermine 2012: Expecting the best; preparing for the worst: Wilderness cooking
A passage through Ice: Setting sail
Trans-Nunavik expedition: Packing up
Fear of adventure
Coppermine 2012: Expecting the best; preparing for the worst: Shipshape
Coppermine 2012: Expecting the best; preparing for the worst: Boys in the woodz
Coppermine 2012: Expecting the best; preparing for the worst: A chef's guide
Climbing Mt. Logan
Yukon summer adventure: How much exercise is enough?
Coppermine 2012: Expecting the best; preparing for the worst: Spray decks
Coppermine 2012: Expecting the best; preparing for the worst: The bugs
Coppermine 2012: The route
Crossing Nunavik


May 2012
Yukon summer adventure
Coppermine 2012: The decision
Santa, Inc.


April 2012
Food insecurity and facebook
On board the CCGS Amundsen
Earth Day


March 2012
Daniel's Arctic Circle Kitchen leads to a Manifesto on Food Sovereignty
Spring cleaning for the Great Lakes
Bringing back the peatlands
How kids can save energy
Fakes, frauds and fossils
Mining matters
Science communication collapse


February 2012
Wacky Circle Crossing leads to a Chat with the Next Famous Norwegian Environmentalist
When research is funny
At a science conference, room for indigenous perspecitves
No man's water
The Middle Seat Manifesto
Perched on the Edge
Canada's biodiversity woes
Extreme painting


January 2012
Help us choose the March Canadian Geographic Travel cover!
Recycling Agricultural Plastics: Where we’re at in Canada
Arctic family affair
No mountain high enough
At home in the Arctic


December 2011
The lesson of Madurai
Prairie dogs on camera
Revisiting The Atlantic Neptune


November 2011
Help us choose the January/February Canadian Geographic cover!
From maps to virtual reality
Propaganda pieces
Remembrance Day, Ottawa 2011
Looking for the future? Take the next left


October 2011
Help us choose the December Canadian Geographic cover!
When map making was death defying
Caribou conservation is complex
Mountain memories
Oil speak: Then and now
Fun stats


September 2011
Help us choose the November Canadian Geographic Travel cover!
Ancient forests in B.C.
Best Wildlife Pictures 2012
The Energy Diet Challenge is on!


August 2011
Help us choose the Best Wildlife Pictures 2012 cover


July 2011
Help us choose the September Canadian Geographic Travel cover!
Greening the cleaning routine
Surround sound


June 2011
Drop by Drop
Laurels for CG
The Energy Diet Challenge
Know your watershed
Help us choose the July/August Canadian Geographic cover!


May 2011
Building a Birch-Bark Canoe (Part 3)
CG Presents Two New Photo Contests!
Whalesong Travels Globe like Latest U2 Tune
Northern Roots, Urban Playground
Plastic Cash is No Funny Money
Running Tour Jogs Through 350 Years of History in Old Montréal
Building a Birch-Bark Canoe (Part 2)
Once Used to Map Conflicts, Software Charts Destructive Canadian Floods


April 2011
Building a Birch-Bark Canoe (Part 1)
Help us choose the June Canadian Geographic cover!
Artificial Leaf Touts Promise of Energy Independence
Colourful Clans Mark National Tartan Day on Parliament Hill
Why so Sugary, Why so Sweet? - Unlocking the Secret of Sweet Tastes
Organic Maple Syrup Could Bring on Buyers Remorse
Rapid Glacier Melt Linked to Ocean Waters


March 2011
Canadians Among Worst Water Wasters
Global War for Wildlife Spills Over into Canada
Longer Ragweed Season in the Works
Canada's Worst Natural Disasters of All Time
Secrets of Spider Silk Untangled
New on Discovery World HD - Canada's National Parks
How Fast are we Pushing Animals from the Planet?
Reverse Colonialism - How the Inuit Conquered the Vikings
Haida Tradition Lost for 150 Years Recaptured by Artist


February 2011
Considering the Costs of Canada's Diamonds
Can Canada Help Save the Amazon?
What 's the Point of Black History Month in Canada?
Living Small Gets Big
Shark Attacks on the Rise Worldwide
From Breadbasket to Barren Land - Could Global Food Shortages Affect Canada?
Return of the Prairie Bandit - The Nature of Things Profiles the Black-footed Ferret
First the Buffalo, then the Bluefin Tuna: The Mismanagement of our Natural Resources


January 2011
A Sword from Bhutan - The Adventures of Sir Francis Younghusband
Powerful Earthquakes in Canada: Is the "Big One" About to Hit B.C.?
River Runners - Training Canada's Olympic Kayakers in Downtown Ottawa
The History Behind Canada's National Parks
Living on the Borderline - Canda Meets the U.S. in Towns on the Border
Mummified Forest Shows Effect of Changing Climate
Is this the Fall of the Legion Hall? - A New Exhibit Profiles These Changing Communities
Building Canada with a TV - Exploring the Heritage Minutes (Part 2)
Building Canada with a TV - Exploring the Heritage Minutes (Part 1)


December 2010
The Mighty Ti-Jean
Degrees of Change: Climate Warming and the Stakes for Canada
Q&A with author Allan Casey about his Governor General’s Literary Award winning book Lakeland
All the Queen's Horses - Trotting with the RCMP's Musical Ride
Holiday Memories - A Canadian Classic: The Sweater
The First Frost Flower


November 2010
Attawapiskat Outrage - What Does the Future Hold for First Nations Education in Canada?
The Tiger - An Interview with Author John Vaillant
Letters About our Climate Future


October 2010
What is a Weather Bomb?
Crossing the Northwest Passage - Day 9 (Last Day)
Forestry Faces Deep Cuts and Other Numbers on our Nation
Crossing the Northwest Passage - Day 8
Crossing the Northwest Passage - Day 7
Crossing the Northwest Passage - Day 6
Crossing the Northwest Passage - Day 5
Crossing the Northwest Passage - Day 4
Crossing the Northwest Passage - Day 3
Crossing the Northwest Passage - Day 2
An Interview with Susan Casey, Author of The Wave
The Polar Explorer
Crossing the Northwest Passage
October 2010 issue: Climate Prosperity
Burning Water


September 2010
Come see us at Word on the Street in Toronto this weekend!
The Shepherds of Amherst Island
Force of Nature - David Suzuki's New Documentary
Canadian Wildlife Return to the Wild
Insect-inspired technology


August 2010
Goodbye Whitehorse!
Canadian Compass Contributor Featured on Daily Planet
One More Day
Welcome to Atlin!
Yukon Permafrost Research Set-up Success!
Canada's Cannabis Car Driving Interest
What is Biodiversity?
The Glorious Yukon
What Does the North Pole Smell Like?
Top Four Musical Odes to the Earth
Five Questions for Alex Trebek
What's it Like to be a Climate Scientist?
The Kinsol Trestle: A Historic Bridge Remade
Only YOU can Prevent Forest Fires
They don't call it field WORK for nothing!
Greetings from the Yukon!
Fastest Falcon Returns to Ontario
Leaving On A Jet Plane - For the Yukon
As Happy as a... Pig?


July 2010
The Quiet Valley Nobody Knows
Packaging Made of Mushrooms Stamps out Styrofoam
Crazy creature of the day: FROGFISH!
Recycled constructions
Profit and Ambition
A Short Tale About Plastic
Canadian Geographic Scoops up National Magazine Awards
Digital e-waste documentary up for Emmy
Extreme Make-over for Ottawa's Nature Museum
Hot Hot Heat
48° 59’ 58.9” or Bust!


June 2010
Not Much Space in Mars Simulation Craft
A Little Green in the Heart of Toronto
What is water?
Earth's Environment Changing Rapidly, Concludes Oslo Science Conference
Endangered Ferrets Weather Winter
Arctic Tundra to Shrink by 51 Percent
The Great Thaw and the Media's Role in Stopping the Melt
Melting Antarctic Sea Ice Set to Raise Global Sea Levels by Six Metres
Threat of Melting Ice Highlighted on First Day of Polar Conference
Kicking Off Garage Sale Season
Off to the Grocery Cart Races?
Important Polar Research to be Revealed in Oslo
Notorious Toronto Bike Thief Gets Novel Treatment
Local Bounty


May 2010
Canadian Geographic's Biodiversity Issue - June 2010
Putting Together the Pieces of a Blue Whale
Expanding our Biodiversity Knowledge
The Lorax is Greener than Green Eggs and Ham
What Difference Could 4 Degrees Make?
Our Ancestral Carbon Footprint
Census of Marine Life Reveals Rare Creatures


April 2010
Industrial Chemicals in my Shampoo?
Photo Essays for the Earth
Hiding in Plain Sight
We Still Don't Know Much About Bats
The Top 40 Nature Photographs for Earth Day
Why are You that Size?
Tweaking Animal Colour Patterns
Internet Comes to the Wilderness
The Summer Issue of Canadian Geographic Travel
You Are My Sunshine, My Only Sunshine
Contact Photography Festival
Waterlife - A Look at the Great Lakes
Holy Cow that’s A Lot of Livestock!
What Next? Self-replicating Robots and Robotic Mind Control?
Cellphone Towers Mess with our Heads
Something Old, Something Green
Origins of Ancient Snakes Revealed
Vacation a la Swiss Family Robinson
An Earth Shaking Industry?
Aboriginal Culture in B.C.
Will There be a New UNESCO Site in Manitoba? - A Feature Interview with Conservationist Don Sullivan
Nobody Here but us Chickens
The Story of Bottled Water


March 2010
Sea Dragon Courtship Dance
Gone, Not Forgotten, then...Rediscovered?
Into The Unknown: particle collider crosses boundary
Earth Hour 2010
The Global Disaster Network
Life, In All Its Glory
Do Mega-regions own the Future?
Vanity Fair's Alex Shoumatoff Discusses the Environment - Part 2
Choose the Next Cover of Canadian Geographic Travel!
Thanks to the Atom Bomb, Wine Fraudsters Can't Fake Vintages
Is Canada the Biggest Climate Denier?
Maple Syrup - What's in it for You?
Editor's Notebook: Passages in time - April 2010
The Problem with Polar Bears
Jellyfish Discovers Fountain of Youth
Vanity Fair's Alex Shoumatoff Discusses the Environment - Part 1
Move to Protect Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Defeated
Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life
There May not be Plenty of Fish in the Sea
Urban Growth Puts Forests Under Pressure
Photojournalism at its Best
All-Black Penguin Defies Convention
Far Below Antarctic Ice, NASA Catches a Shrimp
Life in the Okavango Delta
Welcome to Antopolis
Evolution of the Eye
NASA Observatory Shines light on Dark Energy
Fancy a 270-Hour Dip in the Pond?
This is Canoeing
Coywolves not so coy
Creepy crawlies: Amazing Scanning Electron Microscope pictures of insects and spiders
Canada's Climate Science gets the Ax
Journey to the Sun
A Hot Place to Learn about Climate Change
Tobacco can help humans?
What's Next for the Business of Green Technology?
Great Apes
The Grizzly Hunt
Giraffe Botch-up
Portraits of America's Endangered Species
Coming to a Highrise Near You
Could Artificial Photo Synthesis Power our Future?
Pythons are on the Menu
Art for the 21st Century
Thunder Bay is Singing
Skepticism and the Age of Global Warming
Al Gore Lashes Back at Climate Deniers
Desertification: Coming to a Landscape Near You!


February 2010
The Future of Food
Cities Prepare for Life With the Electric Car
Webcam Catches B.C.'s Elusive Spirit Bear Hibernating
Giant Oarfish Captured on Film
New Teleportation Technique Helps Physicists Understand the Universe
CG Photographer Paul Nicklen Wins World Press Photo Award
Scientists Restore 4000-Year-Old Greenland Man
3-Legged Bear Walks Upright
I'm a Lumberjack and I'm O.K.
Copenhagen Elected First "Bike City" in the World
Buildings that go Green are Good for Business
Arctic Sea Ice Melting Fast
Wolverine V.S. Climate Change
Manitoba Ecosystem Almost Gone Forever
Worlds Greenest Homes
Providing Haiti with Vital Information
Fish Virus Found in Great Lakes
It's Not a Bird, It's Not a Plane, It' s a ... Satellite?


January 2010
Art Accidents
Mars Spirit Rover Renewed
Could new Stoves for Developing Countries Slow Climate Change?
Thirty-Metre Telescope
Wild Horses Soon to be Protected
The End is Near for Mars Spirit
Are Dolphins People Too?
Salty Roads Kill Frogs.
Student Photography for UNICEF
The History and Politics of Climate Change.
How Many People Have Lived on Earth?
In Need of a Slightly Used Space Shuttle? Well, We've got a Deal For You!
Snow Daze
What Does Censorship Look Like?
World Destruction Moved Back a Minute
So That's Where Those Tiny Hamburgers Come From...
Experimental Eskimos
Turtles Rescued from the Cold
Winter Wildlife Photos at The Globe
Evolution and the Engineer
Broken Bees
The Story of Stuff
CG Photo Contest Winners on City TV
Clams Work as Toxin Detectives
The Seed
Twitter's World Domination Continues.
Polar Bear Plight
Jan/Feb 2010 Issue of CG Launches
Talk About Working in the Arctic
Energize your Brain
New Model for Dark Matter
Exploring the International Space Station
A Rising Tide of Evidence
Australia in the Grip of Climate Change
David Trattles' Boxing Ladies


December 2009
Get Ready for IPY
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Crisis in Copenhagen, says Naomi Klein
Helping Guatemala in Copenhagen
Celebrating 80 Years!
Is Your Mayor in Copenhagen?
Our Nation by the Numbers
Canada's PR nightmare in Copenhagen
Love Letters to the Future from Copenhagen
The Last Penguin
Dear Canadian Geographic Readers
California Fires to Get Worse as Climate Changes
The Black Footed Ferret's Return
Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto!
Hubble Unveils Never-Before-Seen Galaxies
In Copenhagen, One Skier Wants to Save Our Snow
The Best of Denmark's Green Technologies
Happy First Week of the Copenhagen Climate Talks! ...Now What is it All About Again?
Back Room Talks Give Hope for Agreement in Copenhagen
Vegetarian Friendly City - London
Copenhagen U.N. Climate Talks Start Today
Christmas Tree Lit by Pedal Power
Veggies Grow Up
World Heritage Sites in Street View
Blue Whales Change their Tune
Young Environmentalists March in Copenhagen
100 Days in Glacier National Park
Green Leaders
Have Turtle, Won't Travel
One Green Change Every Day
DRC Dandies


November 2009
Are We Where We Ought to Be?
That's...Ugly?
Meteoric Symphony
Marine Life Lend a Hand to Scientists
Recycling Old Buildings
Discovery of Ancient Crocodiles
The World Didn't End!
Is Poutine our National Food?
Vote for the Best Cover of 2009!
150th Anniversary of an Evolutionary Idea
A Green Oasis in Copenhagen
Last Chance to See
December 2009 Issue of Canadian Geographic
The Unique Fauna of New Zealand
Photographer Sheds Light on Oil
Winterize your Home
Woe is the Ozone?
Science Fiction Becomes Reality
Industrial Eyesores Turn into Public Space
Polar Obsession - Photographer Paul Nicklen
New York Before New York
Zero-Emission Motorcross Race
Did I do that? Monitoring Earthquakes in Alberta
Drag Racing Electric Cars
Urban Farming in Oakland
First Footage of Giant Stingray
Malnutrition and climate change in Mali
Staying Fit in Space
Welcome to the Genome Zoo?
A Rocket is Born
By the Light of the Sun
New Look for Tanzania
Another Forest Lost
Don’t get Caught in this Net
How Fox Hunt in Winter
Danish go Carbon Free
Wild Olympic Spirit
Digital playground opens in Hong Kong
Growing Cities vs. Global Warming
The Many Faces of Fall


October 2009
130 years of the light bulb - time to retire?
Bad to the Bone Biofuels
Can Google Earth Save the Orangutan?
Help us choose the December Canadian Geographic cover!
Tunneling Underground to Learn About the Sky Above
Owl Bathtime
Stoke your Olympic spirit
Humpback Hump
Aboriginal Artist Creates Art from Everyday Objects
Electricity from thin air and cars that don't need gas
Dancing around Saturn's rings
Teenage Girl Set to Sail Around-the-World
CO2 Levels Similar to 15-million Years Ago
The Big Melt
Carbon Neutral House
Robo-Frog
Replication Station
Electric Highway
Well, well, geothermal well
100 Places to Remember
At a Table Under the Sea
Dreaming of a Green Christmas
What's Lies Beneath Antarctica?
Peek-a-boo


September 2009
Black Holes Are Big Bullies
Next Astronaut who Goes to Moon could need a Bathing Suit
Gardens Don't Lower Crime Rates
Long Live the Electric Car
World’s Largest Wind Park Goes Online
Oaks - 1 Dandelions - 0
Savage World
Predators Prosper from Arctic Oil Drilling
Route 430 revisited
Fishocalypse Now
A Helping Hand
Photographer risks losing copyright to her images
Great Balls of Fire
Samoa switches traffic flow
Wild for Wade Davis
Cook with Canada's Best


August 2009
Happy International Year of Astronomy
New frontier in international affairs
The great debate: History vs. Geography
Web editor wanted


July 2009
Arctic bound
Wonder boys!
25th Annual Photo Contest now open!
Health of Aboriginal People Linked to Cultural Damage
Summer grilling
Summer reading
Ancient Caribou Hunters were Smart


June 2009
On the Hunt: a new way of tracking polar bears could help determine just how threatened the animal is
Arctic Travel Nuts & Bolts
Ever Wonder Where Your Trash Ends Up? The answer isn’t always in a landfill.
We Can Now ‘See’ Memories
Cougar Cam: Ministry of Natural Resources hides dozens of cameras in Ontario to catch a snapshot of an animal that officially doesn’t exist
The Canadian Wildlife Photography of the Year Exhibition and Contest is now open!
Turtle Crossing: breeding turtles may need your help crossing the street
“Practical” Space Elevator Proposed by York U Scientists
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