Posted by Heather Yundt
on Saturday, December 08, 2012
In cased you missed it, here's a recap of what happened in geography news this week: Bill C-45, which included changes to the Navigable Waters Protection Act, passed through the House of Commons this week unchanged, upsetting environmentalists. First Nations Chiefs protested the bill on Parliament Hill. More protests are planned.
Discussion of a Maritime Union continued, after three Maritime senators ruffled some feathers by putting forth the idea last week. The Globe ...
Posted by Kelly Greig
on Wednesday, March 09, 2011
Photo: brian.gratwicke/flickr
Seventy-three years ago, in the woods of northern Maine, the last confirmed eastern cougar was killed. Early last week, the United States Fish and Wildlife Services formally announced that this subspecies of puma is being added to the growing fold of officially extinct species.
Although the Canadian Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife disputes the claim, the fact remains that the demise of this cat which once prowled over 21 states is part of a growing trend in the animal kingdom. ...
One of the strangest and least known chapters in North American history is surely the story of Greenland’s Norse (Vikings) and the Thule people (Inuit).
The standard narrative of North American history is turned on its head here, where centuries ago a Native American group displaced then colonized land inhabited by the Vikings.
Indeed, many of us don't know that Greenland is part of North America. Yet it's connected to Canada by a underwater ridge less than 180 metres deep, and at its nearest ...
It all started with a log. Joel Barker, an earth scientist from Ohio State University, was researching carbon dioxide emissions on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, when he was told about an odd log sticking out of the snow. Since trees only grow sparsely and to a few feet high on the tundra, it was definitely out of place.
"I knew that was a rare thing and I was interested in seeing it," Barker tells CG, "I knew there was a possibility of forests up there in the past. When they told me they found ...
Vancouver writer John Vaillant, whose first book, The Golden Spruce, won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction, unravels an amazing yarn about a tiger "engaged in a vendetta" in the Primorye area of eastern Russia in his new book The Tiger.
Click to listen to the full audio interview and read a review of the book.
