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Arctic oil drilling fought off in Lancaster Sound

By ⋅ March 26, 2011 ⋅ 3 comments

Canadian Geographic, April 2011 Area to become marine conservation area By Sharon Oosthoek Last summer was a stressful time to be the mayor of Grise Fiord, a tiny hamlet on Nunavut’s Ellesmere Island. Meeka Kiguktak was keeping tabs on a research vessel motoring to Lancaster Sound to conduct seismic testing. Kiguktak and others in Grise [...]

Cloud of safety

By ⋅ August 1, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Canadian Geographic, August 2008 GOT YOUR DOUBTS that a 225-gram can of bear spray could stop several hundred kilograms of charging muscle and fur? Until recently, renowned Canadian bear expert Steve Herrero shared those doubts. But then he and colleague Thomas Smith, a wildlife scientist at Utah’s Brigham Young University, took a hard look at [...]

What’s in store for the south

By ⋅ December 1, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Canadian Geographic, December 2007 Plants in a farm filed in London, Ont., are getting an early taste of climate change in a unique experiment that promises to show how rising temperatures and pollution might affect temperate regions.

Excremental Electricity

By ⋅ November 1, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Canadian Geographic, November 2005 A farm family in Vegreville, Alta, is turning cow patties into power with new biogass facility – the only one in the world to run on solid organic waste.

Continental Cousins

By ⋅ November 1, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Canadian Geographic, November 2004 A group of Canadian scientists is trying to confirm a fishy story that it hopes will renew Lake Ontario’s long-lost Atlantic salmon. Researchers at the University of Guelph and the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) suspect that the Atlantic salmon in the Argentinian headwaters in the Andes are of Canadian descent. If [...]

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