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The laws of attraction
Mapping the pull of gravity reveals a Mr. Potato Head planet
Source: Canadian Geographic, January/February 2012
Department:
À La Carte
Contributors:
Elizabeth Shilts
Article ID#: 2902
The jury is in: oil sands development is contaminating the Athabasca basin
Follow the toxic trail of 13 pollutants in the Athabasca watershed
Source: Canadian Geographic, July/August 2011
Department:
À La Carte
Contributors:
Steven Fick
,
Adam Shoalts
Article ID#: 2458
Alternative dimensions
Resizing Canada’s national parks by numbers of visitors
Source: Canadian Geographic, April 2011
Department:
À La Carte
Contributors:
Chris Brackley
,
Steven Fick
,
Kelly Greig
Article ID#: 204
The human globe
If the size of populations dictated the size of nations, the world map would look very different
Source: Canadian Geographic, December 2010
Department:
À La Carte
Contributors:
Steven Fick
,
Tyrone Burke
Article ID#: 34
Along the perforated line
A peek at some of Canada’s hottest smuggling corridors
Source: Canadian Geographic, July/August 2010
Department:
À La Carte
Contributors:
Steven Fick
,
Hugh Pouliot
Article ID#: 77
Overheated hot spots
The pygmy hog lives in a great neighbourhood. So why is it nearing extinction?
In Hudson’s wake
In a five-year surge, explorers fill in the map of the eastern Arctic
Source: Canadian Geographic, April 2010
Department:
À La Carte
Contributors:
Steven Fick
Article ID#: 113
Map of the cap — Arctic geology comes into focus
Hearts are broken and eyes light up as the Arctic’s geology comes into focus
A crowded neighbourhood
Species diversity is right under our nose — and that’s a problem
Source: Canadian Geographic, December 2009
Department:
À La Carte
Contributors:
Steven Fick
,
Emma Lehmberg
Article ID#: 144
Memories of Jupiter
A pile of galactic rock that failed as a planet becomes a star on Eart
Source: Canadian Geographic, October 2009
Department:
À La Carte
Contributors:
Steven Fick
,
Dan Ray
Article ID#: 230
Guitar towns
If these grain elevators and hockey sticks could talk ...
Source: Canadian Geographic, July/August 2009
Department:
À La Carte
Contributors:
Steven Fick
,
Dan Rubinstein
Article ID#: 249
Plenty of fish in the sea?
Longliners, warming waters and the waves of change
Source: Canadian Geographic, June 2009
Department:
À La Carte
Contributors:
Steven Fick
,
Dan Rubinstein
Article ID#: 269
What lies beneath
Shedding light on the unseen forces of global magnetism
Source: Canadian Geographic, April 2009
Department:
À La Carte
Contributors:
Steven Fick
,
Dan Rubinstein
Article ID#: 288
Diverting disaster
Manitoba’s $665 million answer to the Red River’s revenge
Blow by blow
A steady procession of hurricanes in late summer made the 2008 season one of the worst on record
Source: Canadian Geographic, December 2008
Department:
À La Carte
Contributors:
Steven Fick
,
Elizabeth Shilts
Article ID#: 333
The other melting ice cap
Northerners may be on slurry ground as global warming thaws the frozen soil under their feet
Source: Canadian Geographic, October 2008
Department:
À La Carte
Contributors:
Steven Fick
,
Elizabeth Shilts
Article ID#: 354
Drawing the line
It took almost a century of negotiation and compromise to establish the world’s longest undefended border
Source: Canadian Geographic, July/August 2008
Department:
À La Carte
Contributors:
Steven Fick
,
Elizabeth Shilts
Article ID#: 375
Last stands
As the world population increases, frontier forests are succumbing to the relentless march of human activity
Source: Canadian Geographic, June 2008
Department:
À La Carte
Contributors:
Steven Fick
,
Elizabeth Shilts
Article ID#: 402
Smog signals
Burn fossil fuels, and you get nitrogen dioxide, a nasty pollutant that’s fouling the air around the globe
Source: Canadian Geographic, April 2008
Department:
À La Carte
Contributors:
Steven Fick
,
Elizabeth Shilts
Article ID#: 428
Slicing the polar pie
With vast resources lying under the floor of the Arctic Ocean, claims to the polar region are heating up. How will the boundaries be drawn?
Source: Canadian Geographic, January/February 2008
Department:
À La Carte
Contributors:
Steven Fick
,
Alyssa Julie
Article ID#: 468
In the zone
Just south of the Arctic Circle, taiga meets tundra, creating a unique ecological mosaic
Source: Canadian Geographic, December 2007
Department:
À La Carte
Contributors:
Jennifer Ma
Article ID#: 502
Alien territory
Devon Island's otherworldly geography stands in for the red planet
Source: Canadian Geographic, July/August 2007
Department:
À La Carte
Contributors:
Joanna Fultz
Article ID#: 555
Island refuge
Remote, rugged and uninhabited, Akpatok Island draws throngs of northern wildlife
Source: Canadian Geographic, May/June 2007
Department:
À La Carte
Contributors:
Andréa Ventimiglia
Article ID#: 581
Salt signals
Domelike deposits mark a motherlode
Source: Canadian Geographic, March/April 2007
Department:
À La Carte
Contributors:
Andréa Ventimiglia
Article ID#: 605
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