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Jan 29, 2025 · The Milky Way rises above the abandoned Utopia School, an old one-room schoolhouse that opened in 1904. This photo is part of the portfolio of Shane Turgeon, the grand prize winner of our annual photo competition. (Photo: Shane Turgeon) Lightning strikes a canola field from a bruised sky. An octopus ...

4 days ago · Aurora pillars from Patricia Lake, Jasper, Alta. Smoke from wildfires is increasingly obscuring such views. (Photo: Devin Shaw) In 2023, wildfire smoke choked the skies of Jasper National Park. During the day, we rarely saw the sun. All we could see, taste and smell was ash. This was a place in ...

Jan 28, 2025 · In a yellowing field in Maple Ridge, Vancouver, a Western University-led team sets off tiny “earthquakes.” PhD student Benjamin Osei Fordjour lifts a sledge-hammer and strikes the ground, sending seismic wavelengths skipping through the ground and down a tape measure lined with geophones.

Feb 3, 2025 · A view of the restoration work happening at the Port Lands in summer 2024, with the decommissioned Hearn generating station in the background. (Courtesy: Waterfront Toronto) Shannon Baker stops mid-sentence and points. “There’s a red-tailed hawk,” she says. We watch the raptor cross low over ...

Dec 11, 2020 · On a cold night among the formidable glaciated peaks of the Waddington Range on the western edge of B.C., I watched a faint light begin to rise in the sky to the north.

Dec 23, 2024 · Few places on Earth are as inhospitable as the summit of Mt. Logan, the highest mountain in Canada and the second-highest in North America. Standing at 5,959 metres tall, this remote landscape is notorious for its challenging terrain, harsh conditions and tent-burying storms, with wind speeds of up to 160 kilometres per hour.

The Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada is a step on the path toward understanding. The Royal Canadian Geographical Society, in partnership with the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, the Assembly of First Nations, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the Métis National Council and Indspire, created a groundbreaking four-volume atlas that shares the experiences, perspectives, and histories of ...