About Can Geo
Forest trail in Ottawa, Ontario
Can Geo staff summer adventures
What we’re reading during the COVID-19 pandemic
Introducing the newest Can Geo coworkers
Revealing the May/June 2020 Canadian Geographic cover
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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
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
Celebrating 100 years of the Group of Seven
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Community
Survivor: The story of Phyllis Webstad and Orange Shirt Day
Excerpt from British Columbia in Flames: Stories from a Blazing Summer
10 photos of the West Coast wildfires from the Can Geo photo community
Long overdue, much welcomed: Two residential schools named National Historic Sites
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COVID-19
Seismic trackers record 50 per cent drop in noise during COVID-19
‘Absolutely catastrophic:’ Hit hard by pandemic, ecotourism needs help
Mapping Canada’s mask-mandatory businesses
How Canadian cities are adapting to COVID-19
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Education
students sitting in a circle learn about Métis culture
Featured Teacher: Chandrelle Marshall
Featured Teacher: Jennifer Leduc
Featured Teacher: Elliot Unger
Featured Teacher: Patrick Halford
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Energy
PLAT-I tidal energy platform in Grand Passage, May 2019
Testing the future of tidal energy in Nova Scotia
Canadian teams win big at the Shell Eco-marathon Americas
Q&A with a team captain heading to the Shell Eco-marathon Americas
Alternative fuel sources get put to the test at Shell Eco-marathon Americas
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Environment & Nature
plastic bag in ocean
Plastics news: No more single-use plastics, “super enzymes” and more
Canadian ranchers protect native grasslands and species at risk
10 photos of fall from the Can Geo Instagram photo community
Excerpt from A Book of Ecological Virtues
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Events & Exhibits
Can Geo Talks: Virtual Series 2020
Can Geo Talks: Spring 2020
Can Geo Talks: Fall 2019
Can Geo Talks presents: Jill Heinerth
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Exploration
Excerpt from Canadarm and Collaboration: How Canada’s Astronauts and Space Robots Explore New Worlds
Team Canada Adventure comes home 2nd in 'World's Toughest Race'
An epic family journey to the heart of the Himalaya
A bridge of ice
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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
Throwback Thursday: The 1919 Stanley Cup final
Adventurer, turncoat, cannibal: the remarkable story of Pierre-Esprit Radisson
Flight of the Highlanders: The Making of Canada
Four flags that almost became Canada’s national flag
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Kids
Animal Facts: Great blue heron
Animal Facts: Pronghorn
Animal Facts: Snowy owl
Animal Facts: Canada Lynx
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Map archive
Chronicling “an almost unknown country”
The map that guided Canada’s D-Day clash
Confederation conflict
Canada’s first cold war
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Mapping
Canada's 75 biggest islands
Mapping Canada's 75 biggest islands
In their own words: an interactive map shares the stories of Sixties Scoop survivors
Exploring the new Winnipeg Food Atlas
Mapping the threat status of wild Atlantic salmon
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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
Clare with starfish on beach
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
Ocean Bridge Diaries: Talen Rimmer
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People & Culture
Water protection and youth activism with Autumn Peltier
Coffee News, the tan community paper that became a Canadian curiosity
Colour the Trails
Tom Thomson — Painter of the True North
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RCGS
Browse, bid and brag at the 2020 RCGS Silent Auction
Remembering innovative Arctic research leader, RCGS Fellow Dr. Louis Fortier
Remembering former prime minister John Turner
Remembering internationally acclaimed researcher, RCGS Fellow Shelagh Dawn Grant
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Science & Technology
Excerpt from Saved by Science: The Hope and Promise of Synthetic Biology
Cetacean seeker
Did meteorite impacts help create life on Earth and beyond?
Weather watchers encouraged to report tornadoes in Canada this summer
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The Franklin Expedition
Franklin expedition epaulettes
Artifacts retrieved from Erebus wreck reveal snapshot of life on doomed ship
The imagined letters of Lady Jane Franklin
“The Terror” recap: Episode 8
“The Terror” recap: Episode 7
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The North
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
POLAR scientist shares insights on losing summer of Arctic research
Portraits of the North in isolation
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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
Exclusive Q&A with Long Way Up's Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman
The 49th parallel: Our defining line
When it comes to volcano tourism, is the reward worth the risk?
How the world came together to protect a B.C. inlet
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Wildlife
Punctuation's mark: Can we save the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale?
Excerpt from Ice Walker: A Polar Bear’s Journey Through the Fragile Arctic
Photos: Bear witness
Conservationist teams up with local communities to save Earth’s largest scaled freshwater fish
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