About Can Geo
Canadian Geographic publisher Gilles Gagnier
In memory of Gilles Gagnier
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
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Ocean Supercluster
A data revolution is helping to keep workers safe from storms at sea
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 treaties 1 and 2
Treaties 1 and 2: reflecting on the 150th anniversary
Diabetes breakthrough: the discovery of insulin
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
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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
Geography teacher
Featured Teacher: Ewan Geddes
Team Canada nabs four medals at 2021 International Geography Olympiad
Team Canada set to compete in the virtual 2021 International Geography Olympiad
Featured Teacher: Colin O'Connor
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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
leather sea stars
“We did this:” Is there a way out of our intertwined climate and biodiversity crises?
Kelp: The sustainable superfood coming soon to a plate near you
Study of 500 years of cod catch data shows collapse could have been avoided
What if we could plant trees as quickly as we cut them down?
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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
Remembering Jon Lindbergh, a pioneering aquanaut
One year on, adventurer Bert terHart on his monumental world circumnavigation and future plans
Going deep for discovery: ocean exploration reaches new lows
The cool calling: Glaciologist Alison Criscitiello is redefining the term explorer
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Explore Podcast
David McGuffin host of Explore and astronaut Chris Hadfield
Astronaut Chris Hadfield on “The Apollo Murders,” his thrilling novel of the Space Race
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
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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
Soft sunrise colours over Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls is actually a marvel of engineering
Going to Klondyke: The 19th-century game that brought the gold rush into American homes
Gateway to Canada: A look back at Pier 21
Behind the sails
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Kids
Animal Facts: Great blue heron
Animal Facts: Pronghorn
Animal Facts: Canada Lynx
Animal Facts: Beaver
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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
Map of North American glaciation
The shape of ice: Mapping North America’s glaciers
Mapping project aims to make Canada’s trails more accessible
First Peoples' Map of B.C.: New interactive map celebrates Indigenous cultures and language
Ocean Week: Howe Sound community creates interactive map protecting ecological, economic and cultural values
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National & Provincial Parks
A crowd of tourist swarm on a lakeside beach in Banff National Park
Smother Nature: The struggle to protect Banff National Park
Thaidene Nëné: Land of the ancestors
The Mingan Archipelago: A land shaped by time
National parks beginning to reopen across the country
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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
Shoalts: What lurks beyond the flicker of the firelight?
Can Geo Films documentary Returning Home to premiere at Canadian film festivals
George Elliott Clarke finds Africadian inspiration in Three Mile Plains, N.S.
Salma Lakhani, Alberta’s first Muslim Lieutenant Governor, on building a more inclusive Canada
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RCGS
Four people pose in front of a blue background saying "Royal Canadian geographical Society." They are Dr. Joe MacInnis, Gavin Fitch, Catherine McKenna, and John Geiger
Catherine McKenna named an Honorary Fellow of the RCGS
The Royal Canadian Geographical Society awards two Kamookak Medals
Launching the Trebek Initiative!
RCGS appoints Emily Choy as its latest Explorer-in-Residence
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Science & Technology
Inside your smartphone: analyzing the rare-earth elements
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
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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
Dianne Whelan on the Trans Canada Trail
Six years, 470 hours of film, 100 journals, 24,000 kilometres: Tracing the Trans Canada Trail
Canadian Tourism Week underway!
Excerpt from The Way Of The Gardener
Exclusive Q&A with Long Way Up's Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman
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Wildlife
North American dark-eyed junco on a pine branch
Wildlife Wednesday: Animals are “shape-shifting” to cope with climate change
Egyptian scientists discover new species of ancient four-legged whale
Wildlife Wednesday: Is the iconic loon in trouble?
Caribou are vanishing at an alarming rate. Is it too late to save them?
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