Ryan Sharpe listens intently to a question during the final round of the 2019 Canadian Geographic Challenge, held in the Alex Trebek Theatre at 50 Sussex in Ottawa. Sharpe went on to place second in ...

Another reckoning is coming with climate change. How do we deal with our mental health — and ultimately find hope? I’m walking up a ridge of bedrock outside my house, talking to my brother 1,800 ...

Jane Marshall, Meghan J. Ward and Eva Anandi Brownstein (back to front) hike along Poligne Creek in Jasper National Park. I can hear the river now, a white noise dulling the morning bird song. It’s a ...

Research and exploration of the icy Arctic waters is possible because of the existence of the Canadian High Arctic Research Station, which opened in Cambridge Bay in ...

A spirit bear walks the intertidal zone of Princess Royal Island, occasionally stopping to flip rocks in search of food underneath. I was about five when I first first encountered ‘maas ol (white bear ...

Hôtel de Glace (ice hotel), offers guests a one-of-a-kind winter experience just outside of Québec City. (Photo: Étienne Dionne) When dealing with more than 30,000 tons of ice, you need to know your ...

As fungi bloom into the mainstream, a research station hidden in the B.C. Rainforest aims to uncover some of the mysteries of mushrooms Branden Walle, director of biology at Kapoose Creek, B.C., ...

When it comes to home insulation, R-value is a crucial factor to consider. Although I knew it was a quantifiable way to measure insulation, I don’t know if I could ever explain what it was. R-value ...

Footsteps crunch quietly on twigs, as Laurie Rousseau-Nepton makes her careful way through the forests surrounding Ashuapmushuan, Que. She pauses, she listens, she looks. It was her father who taught ...

The North Atlantic right whale is one of the planet's most endangered large whale species. (Photo: Sea to Shore Alliance/NOAA) Scientists can identify individual North Atlantic right whales, along ...

The massive ichthyosaur fossil is now housed at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Alta. (Photo courtesy Royal Tyrrell Museum) On a summer day in 1989, paleontologist Don Brinkman sat waiting for ...

Nickel Tailings #31 (detail) forms part of Edward Burtynsky’s Mines and Tailings, a series devoted to exploring the environmental aftermath of metal mining and ...