Exploration
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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People & Culture
Walking with the herd
An immersive Yukon art installation brings caribou — and conservation — into focus
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Travel
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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Sacred waters: the north’s most precious resource
People & Culture
A riveting journey to the frontlines of Canada’s most devastating wild fires
People & Culture
At the edge of the world with Louise K. Blight
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People & Culture
Winter breakup: The race to predict the Yukon River thaw
People & Culture
After the fire: How Fort McMurray changed Canada’s relationship with wildfire
People & Culture
Human rights champion Louise Arbour is Canada’s next governor general
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Travel
Malta’s military history: A Mediterranean stronghold of Knights, WWII bombardment and ancient siege
The limestone cities and harbours of Malta are layered with fortifications, underground wartime shelters, and centuries of conflict that continue to define everyday life
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Travel
Inside Montreal’s magical Moment Factory
This uniquely Canadian studio illuminates bucket lists around the world, complete with enchanted night walks and mind-boggling displays
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Travel
Switchbacks and scabbardfish: Seven must-dos on the island of Madeira
On Portugal’s mountainous Atlantic island, levada hikes, ocean swims and world-famous wine reveal why Madeira is “the whole package”
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Beyond the aurora: Yellowknife’s experiences worth showing up for
Spotting the northern lights may be hit-or-miss, but the city’s culture, characters and hands-on experiences offer far more reliable rewards
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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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At just 21 hectares, Nova Scotia’s Country Island plays an outsized role in bird conservation
02A visit to Quebec’s Baie de L’Isle-Verte National Wildlife Area, where life moves with the tides
03Une visite à la réserve faunique nationale de Baie de l’Isle-Verte, au Québec, où la vie suit le rythme des marées
04Monitoring migration through the Nisutlin River Delta National Wildlife Area
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Barkerville’s time machine: Stepping into B.C.’s gold rush past
Costumed characters, historic buildings, and frontier legends transport visitors in B.C.’s most famous boomtown
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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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Science & Tech
Scientists measured Toronto’s winter air pollution. Some of their findings were surprising
Science & Tech
Des scientifiques ont mesuré la pollution atmosphérique hivernale à Toronto. Certaines de leurs conclusions sont surprenantes.
Wildlife
La couleuvre verte lisse est-elle vraiment aussi rare qu’elle en a l’air, ou est-elle simplement très difficile à apercevoir?
Environment
Great expectations for the Great Lakes
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Des grandes attentes pour les Grands Lacs
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C’était un ranch familial depuis des générations. Aujourd’hui, il est protégé en tant que prairie indigène.
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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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Wildlife
Caribou people: The story of conserving the Porcupine caribou herd is a story about working together
Amid oil and gas threats to the ancient calving grounds of the Porcupine caribou herd and startling population declines, people on both sides of the border are coming together to protect them
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Wildlife
Every bird counted on Point Pelee, Ont. in one year
Artist Jer Thorp creates a visual checklist of every bird counted in one year on the southernmost point of mainland Canada
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Wildlife
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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En chiffres : Les paysages protégés et les oiseaux qui y vivent
Voici quelques faits surprenants concernant ces environnements protégés et les espèces d’oiseaux qui les fréquentent
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Wildlife
By the numbers: Protected landscapes and the birds that live there
National wildlife areas and migratory bird sanctuaries form a vast conservation network across the country. Here are a few surprising facts about these protected landscapes and the bird species that live there
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Mapping
Pour les oiseaux! Cartographie des 92 refuges d’oiseaux migrateurs du Canada
Ces zones sous protection fédérale sont situées le long des grands corridors aviaires – également appelées voies de migration – empruntées par des millions d’oiseaux au cours de leurs migrations annuelles. Elles constituent des sites d’escale et des aires de reproduction essentiels
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Mapping
For the birds! Mapping Canada’s 92 migratory bird sanctuaries
These federally protected areas are located along avian superhighways — also known as flyways — traversed by millions of birds on their annual migrations. They provide vital stopover sites and breeding grounds.
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Wildlife
The birds who call us home
In springtime in North America, purple martins spread joy as they return to their nest boxes — is that enough motivation for us to ward off an avian housing crisis?
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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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Places
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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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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Places
Places
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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Places
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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Places
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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Places
The largest (charred) burl in the world, and other roadside charms of northern Vancouver Island
A road trip “up island” reveals outsized curiosities with backstories to match
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Places
The Essential Itinerary: Squamish, B.C.
Perfectly situated between Vancouver and Whistler, this fast-growing B.C. town is renowned for its “down-to-Earth” vibe, world-class hiking and adventure-oriented community
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Mapping
On the map: Examining historic Inuit migration routes between Canada and Greenland
Though Inuit in both countries experienced colonization in different ways, connections across the Arctic remain deeply rooted in shared language, history and identity
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Environment
Canada has a new weather alerting system. Here’s what the colours mean — and what to do when severe weather strikes
Environment and Climate Change Canada has launched a new colour-coded system for its severe weather alerts. Here’s what you should know.
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Places
How Last Mountain Lake, Sask. became Canada’s first migratory bird sanctuary
Last Mountain Lake is a refuge for hundreds of thousands of migrating birds each spring
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People & Culture
“It’s almost like a treasure hunt:” investigating deepsea corals off Newfoundland’s Grand Banks
Deepsea canyons along the Southern Newfoundland Slope shelter ancient cold-water corals and rich marine biodiversity. Scientists are racing to uncover and protect this fragile ecosystem before it’s lost.
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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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Exploration
Exploration
Family-friendly caving in Canada: Five underground adventures for kids
Exploration
DNA match identifies four more crew members from ill-fated Franklin expedition
Exploration
Testing my limits in Arctic Norway
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Iconic moments from the Artemis II mission to the moon and back
Exploration
200 km across the Atacama: Ray Zahab on survival, heat, and the edge of human limits
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Painting the North: Following the spirit of the Group of Seven with Adventure Canada
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Science & Tech
Science & Tech
Canada’s ‘moon joy’ will continue long past Artemis II. Here’s what’s next for our space program
While Jeremy Hansen’s mission is complete, Canadian scientists and astronauts will be involved in future space missions – including to the moon
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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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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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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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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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Wildlife
Partners in protection
Combining ecological and cultural values, and nearly two dozen planning partners, British Columbia’s Great Bear Sea is a model of conservation cooperation
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Wildlife
Born for this: unravelling the disappearance of Dall sheep
When scientists started documenting alarming declines in the Thechàl Dhâl herd of Dall sheep, it sparked a vital conversation between biologists and First Nations communities. What was causing the drop in numbers — and how could they work together to find a path forward?
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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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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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People & Culture
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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People & Culture
“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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People & Culture
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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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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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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Places
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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Places
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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Places
This Vancouver Island destination is redefining what it means to be “close to nature”
As a gateway to Desolation Sound and the Coast Mountains, Campbell River is evolving into a base camp for travellers drawn to the space between ocean and alpine
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Kids
Inciter les enfants à se déconnecter et à aller dehors est un défi. Les guides Curieux de nature peuvent y contribuer.
Éveiller la curiosité des enfants pour la nature est bénéfique à leur bien-être et essentiel à la préservation des espaces naturels. Les guides Curieux de nature, une nouvelle ressource pour les enseignants et les parents, peuvent y aider.
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Kids
Getting kids to unplug and go outside is a challenge. Curious by Nature guides can help
Getting kids inspired by the natural world is good for their well-being — and critical to the fate of wild places. Curious by Nature guides, a new resource for educators and parents, can help make that happen.
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Places
Suivi des migrations dans la réserve nationale de faune du Delta-de-la-Rivière-Nisutlin
Récits de l’observatoire ornithologique du lac Teslin, dont les membres s’adonnent avec enthousiasme à l’observation, au recensement et au baguage des oiseaux qui traversent cet immense delta d’eau douce
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Places
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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Wildlife
The long climb back: Saving the Vancouver Island marmot
A small army of scientists, conservationists and volunteers cooperate to ensure the successful rebound of Canada’s most endangered mammal
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Wildlife
When the wild goes quiet
“Winter has a way of softening the forest”
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Places
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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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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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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A Sustainable World
A Sustainable World is a project of Aga Khan Foundation Canada in partnership with Canadian Geographic, funded by the…
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.