About Can Geo
A black-and-white photo of a film maker looks through the lens of his camera
Matt LeMay is Canadian Geographic's inaugural Filmmaker-in-Residence
Announcing the winners of our Annual Photography 2020 competition
Introducing the 'What is home' re:Location photo competition winners
Top CanGeo stories of 2020
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Ocean Supercluster
A Student on Ice teacher talks to students in a small boat surrounded by ice
World Oceans Day: Building a more sustainable ocean future — one worker at a time
Small-scale energy projects aim to help northern communities
Encouraging tech innovations to safeguard ocean health
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Canada 150
Clyde River, Nunavut
Video of the Week: A visual celebration of Canada
Photos: A voyage through the Northwest Passage
Video of the Week: Thompson, Man., howls its way into the record books
Manitoba farmer creates intricate Canada 150 corn maze
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Charting Change
Insights on artificial intelligence in the developing world
Reducing e-waste recycling risks in Ghana
Combating gender-based violence in Colombia
The math behind China’s fight against HIV
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Commemorate Canada
Map of 1871 electoral districts in British Columbia
A crucial piece: B.C. joined confederation 150 years ago today.
War on the water: Charting Canada’s critical role in the passage of ships during the Second World War
Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations charter
Manitoba celebrates its 150th anniversary
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Community
A woman dressed in fishing gear and a blue-green coat holds a fishing rod over her shoulders in a river
Colour the Trails: Taking up space with Demiesha Dennis
Renaming places: how Canada is reexamining the map
Reflecting on Canada Day
Reclaiming Indigenous matriarchy with Sandy Ward
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COVID-19
A plastic pandemic: The results of COVID-19 PPE pollution
The ants go marching one by one: Social distancing in the animal kingdom
How Arctic sea ducks develop herd immunity from avian cholera
Sewage surveillance: How scientists track and identify diseases like COVID-19 before they spread
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Education
Team Canada set to compete in the virtual 2021 International Geography Olympiad
Featured Teacher: Adam Robb
Featured Teacher: Gabrielle Rogers
Bug news! World-renowned Canadian entomologists fund Canadian Museum of Nature visiting scientist program
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Energy
Book cover of "The Day the World Stops Shopping" alongside author J.B. MacKinnon
Excerpt: The Day the World Stops Shopping
Energy efforts making headlines across Canada
Storms and wildfires can cut electricity, but microgrids help communities take control
Testing the future of tidal energy in Nova Scotia
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Environment & Nature
An illustration of a rooftop farm
Fresh from the city: The rise of urban farming
What can birds tell us about forest fire recovery?
Countering climate change
Quickfire decision: fighting wildfires
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Events & Exhibits
Foggy lake black and white
Picture this! #ShotOnNikon Photo Contest winners
Can Geo Talks: Virtual Series 2020
Can Geo Talks: Spring 2020
Can Geo Talks: Fall 2019
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Exploration
The cool calling: Glaciologist Alison Criscitiello is redefining the term explorer
Ocean week! Locating and diving on the world’s deepest shipwreck
All-Canadian team completes successful expedition to the top of Canada
Making space cheaper and more accessible to everyone
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Explore Podcast
Explore presents Wade Davis on the Magdelena River
Explore presents the Hudson’s Bay Company - Part 4(3): Treasures of the fur trade
Explore presents the Hudson’s Bay Company - Part 4(2): Blankets and moccasins
Explore presents the Hudson’s Bay Company - Part 4(1): The Royal Charter
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Gear Reviews
An Arctic explorer’s favourite pants
Five reasons we are excited for the new Apple Watch Series 5
Why your next vacation will probably be #ShotoniPhone
Gear Review: Justin Barbour puts a MEC life jacket to the ultimate test
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History
A Black and white photo of a sign that says "welcome home to Canada" on a brick building
Gateway to Canada: A look back at Pier 21
Behind the sails
Picturing the mountains
Discovery history: Race to the top
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Kids
Animal Facts: Great blue heron
Animal Facts: Great blue heron
Animal Facts: Beaver
Animal Facts: Moose
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Map archive
1768 map showing River Exploits flowing into Lieutenant's Lake, showing Beothuk mamateeks, deer fences and scarecrows.
Faded ink: Map tells piece of the Beothuk story in Newfoundland
Dam break
Chronicling “an almost unknown country”
The map that guided Canada’s D-Day clash
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Mapping
Howe Sound: Erik Ringsmuth
Ocean Week: Howe Sound community creates interactive map protecting ecological, economic and cultural values
Canadian mapmakers celebrate wins at international map design competition
Mapping Nitassinan
A changing land
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National & Provincial Parks
Great Slave Lake
Thaidene Nëné: Land of the ancestors
The Mingan Archipelago: A land shaped by time
National parks beginning to reopen across the country
Four things to know about Thaidene Nëné, Canada’s newest national park reserve
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Ocean Bridge
Exploring Nova Scotia through experiential learning
Q&A: Ottawa’s Clare Stone on her journey to becoming an ocean conservation leader
Ocean Bridge Diaries: Connor Garrod
Ocean Bridge Diaries: Kayoung Heo
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People & Culture
four inuit women stand on the shore showcasing their tattoos
Kakiniit: The art of Inuit tattooing
Into the Arctic: Film trilogy launches July 17 on Youtube
Our Country: Peter Mansbridge on his love for the North
Gurdeep Pandher of the Yukon receives Louie Kamookak Medal
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RCGS
Launching the Trebek Initiative!
RCGS appoints Emily Choy as its latest Explorer-in-Residence
What does an expedition do on hold?
Trudeau, Trebek and a Rear-Admiral: the Royal Canadian Geographical Society bolsters its Fellowship with three incredible leaders
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Science & Technology
The moon in shadow
Canadian rover set to land on moon within five years
Canadian company wins multi-million dollar prize for carbon-dioxide-injected concrete
Space mining is not science fiction, and Canada could figure prominently
Dark vessels and how to find them
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The Franklin Expedition
1845 Franklin expedition member identified using DNA
Artifacts retrieved from Erebus wreck reveal snapshot of life on doomed ship
The imagined letters of Lady Jane Franklin
“The Terror” recap: Episode 8
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The North
A photo of the author side by side with the cover of his book
Excerpt from Captain Cook Rediscovered: Voyaging to the Icy Latitudes
Q&A: How isolation in the remote High Arctic can have valuable lessons for our changing world
5 Polar Continental Shelf Program projects unlocking the mysteries of Canada’s North
Researchers find microplastics in nearly every sample taken in the Eastern Canadian Arctic
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The Polar Blog
PEARL, North, Arctic, wildfire, spectrometer
Tracking wildfire impacts at the top of the world
The Canadian High Arctic Research Station comes online
The groundbreaking program that helped make Canada an Arctic science heavyweight
Unearthing clues to the mystery of the great Pleistocene extinction in Yukon
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The Terror
He's bruised and battered, but is Captain Francis Crozier (played by Jared Harris) beyond all hope in the tenth and final episode of The Terror? (Photo: Aidan Monaghan/AMC)
“The Terror” recap: Episode 10 – Season Finale
Five questions about “The Terror”
“The Terror” recap: Episode 9
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Travel & Places
canoes on a lake in canada
Canadian Tourism Week underway!
Excerpt from The Way Of The Gardener
Exclusive Q&A with Long Way Up's Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman
The 49th parallel: Our defining line
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Wildlife
a blue whale swims close to the surface
Wildlife Wednesday: The world’s loneliest whale, nest quest, serious suckers and “the worst” plant invasion
The cat came back: Canada's cougar comeback
Wildlife Wednesday: moth outbreak, baby ferrets and an unexpected whale visit
Ready up for National Moth Week 2021!
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