19 November 2014
Today is International GIS Day! A day to celebrate geography and geographic information systems (GIS) around the world by show casing real-world GIS applications to students and the general public. You can find more details on events occurring around the world (displayed, fittingly, on a map).
Wildlife Conservation Society Canada to release information hub on the largest peatland in North America
A growing demand for “critical minerals” may put one of the largest carbon sinks in the world at risk. A new hub will look at all the values at play in the Ring of Fire in Canada.
I am namew
They call me a living fossil. I call myself a survivor. I have been swimming in this river longer than many of you have been alive. I travel hundreds of kilometers each year and know the best places to lay my eggs when the time comes every few years – or sometimes only once every decade.
Unlocking Ontario’s fishy secret
The far north in Ontario has innumerable lakes and thousands of kilometres of rivers crisscrossing a landscape that is as much water as land. In fact, some of the world’s last large free-flowing rivers – including the Albany, Winisk and Severn – wind their way across this landscape and carry its abundant freshwater north toward Hudson and James Bay.