Alanna Mitchell

Des rivières atmosphériques et les pluies intenses qu’elles apportent sur la côte ouest

A closer look at the mechanics of the intense rains they bring to the West Coast

Technical glitches, seasickness and wonders never before seen: a journalist’s diary of a scientific expedition on the Southern Newfoundland Slope reveals the challenges and payoffs of trying to understand the ocean

Last Mountain Lake is a refuge for hundreds of thousands of migrating birds each spring

Le Lac-Last Mountain est un refuge pour des centaines de milliers d’oiseaux migrateurs chaque printemps

Deepsea canyons along the Southern Newfoundland Slope shelter ancient cold-water corals and rich marine biodiversity. Scientists are racing to uncover and protect this fragile ecosystem before it’s lost.

Canadian Geographic is on the scene at Kennedy Space Center for the final countdown to this history-making mission, which will see Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen become the first Canadian to fly around the moon

Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen will soon be blasting off on NASA’s Artemis II mission. How did he get from an imaginary treehouse spaceship in rural Ontario to the real thing?

Alberta-based computer scientist Mark Simpson can design anything he puts his mind to. So why has he chosen to chase tornadoes?

Places A spotlight on the conservation work being done to support, preserve and save at-risk and endangered species Zoos have changed a lot since the Toronto Zoo opened its doors 50 years ago, says its chief executive Dolf DeJong. But what’s changed…

Environment Tiny hotspots of biodiversity, prairie potholes can ease the effects of climate heating — if we stop draining them By long tradition, the farmer has been the sworn enemy of the prairie pothole. Not only do the so-called “bathtubs” of the…

La langue des signes des Autochtones des Plaines a été utilisée pendant de nombreuses générations pour permettre aux peuples autochtones de communiquer entre eux malgré les idiomes et la distance qui les séparaient. Le temps est venu de se la réapproprier.

People & Culture Plains Indian Sign Language was used by generations of Indigenous Peoples to communicate across languages and landscapes. Now, it’s being reclaimed. One summer, when the theatre artist Floyd Favel was in his early 20s, he went to a…

The geology professor is a key mover and shaker in what is possibly the biggest geological announcement of our generation, with Ontario’s tiny Crawford Lake being chosen as the global ground zero Earth's most recent geological time period Dec 13,…

Hidden beneath the surface of this Ontario lake is an archive of the earth’s history sealed in mud The planet’s crust is an archive of time and catastrophe. Its layers carry evidence of asteroid hits, mass extinctions, toxic changes to the atmosphere…

The muskox, that shaggy-coated, white-stockinged, short-legged, warty-lipped, thick-skulled, inbred, plant-munching, cold-loving, sociable beast of the Arctic, the ultimate survivor. When the last ice age, which ended about 10,000 years ago,…

Canada is bursting with great ideas. Some of them are small, affecting a single community. Some are changing the whole world. In a way, the scope hardly matters. When innovation strikes, it tends to spread. You see a bold new solution affecting one…

Places “All the mischiefs humans and the universe are capable of inflicting on an ecosystem have conspired to attack the prairies." It is a country to breed mystical people, egocentric people, perhaps poetic people. But not humble ones. At noon the…

Recording the soundscapes of our ecosystems is a burgeoning field that allows researchers to better decode what the Earth is saying. But are we listening? Our planet has a soundtrack. There are the birds, of course — the chirps, warbles, tweedles,…

For eons, humans have looked at the surface of the ocean and wondered what is below. Not just within the water itself, but also at the deepest reaches of the seabed floor. Until the 1950s, scientists assumed it was both dreary and featureless. But…