Looking back on our BEST stories of 2024
This year, Canadian Geographic published more than 250 stories covering topics ranging from the importance of passenger rail corridors to how to practice ethical wildlife photography. We ventured to different corners of the world, from the mountains of Peru to Canada’s skies featuring lunar phenomena and the captivating aurora borealis. To finish the year, our editors have compiled a list of our best and most-read stories, highlighting the incredible work of our storytellers and our commitment to sharing knowledge of Canada and the world. Enjoy! |
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IN THIS EMAIL: Best of WILDLIFE - Do not disturb: Practicing ethical wildlife photography Best of EXPLORATION - Finding Quest Best of PEOPLE & CULTURE - Losing track: The importance of passenger rail corridors Best of MAPS - Mapping the rapid spread of invasive feral pigs across Canada Best of ENVIRONMENT - Wonder and loss: the deep ocean and its future Best of TRAVEL - Chasing auroras in Yellowknife |
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| The photographer caught this image with a camera trap of a red fox scavenging on a caribou carcass in the North. (Photo: Peter Mather) |
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Best of EXPLORATION
Finding Quest
Inside the expedition that found famed explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s famed last ship
By Alexandra Pope
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| Members of the British Arctic Air Route Expedition of 1930 unload Quest at their base camp on the eastern coast of Greenland. Eight years earlier, Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton died aboard the ship en route to the southern continent. (Photo: British Arctic Air Route Expedition Photograph/Sydney Morning Herald) |
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Wonder and loss: the deep ocean and its future
Though it’s the largest ecosystem on Earth, we know less about the deep ocean than the surface of the moon. As the threat of mining looms, will its fate be decided before we know enough to make such a far-reaching choice?
By Leslie Anthony with illustrations byAmanda Key
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Chasing auroras in Yellowknife
With solar activity expected to peak in 2024, there’s never been a better time to see the northern lights. Here’s how to do it in the “aurora capital of North America.”
Story and photography by Alexandra Pope |
| | | | The aurora borealis dance above a rustic cabin near Yellowknife. Experts say 2024 will be a banner year for the space weather phenomenon thanks to a peak in solar activity. (Photo: Alexandra Pope/Can Geo) |
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