Bathurst Island, at center of this NASA satellite photo, is new park site Canada’s Environment Minister, Leona Aglukkaq, announced a new bill last week, taking the first step to establishing Canada’s 45th National Park in Canada’s Arctic…
Got you with that headline, right? But it’s not a joke. The Russian airline Aeroflot has a K-9 unit that has received a patent concerning technology developed from studies of how dogs smell, and which has enabled training of dogs to better…
Ground Squirrels are fairly common in western North America. Many people call them gophers but this is not correct. A gopher is an animal that lives underground and stays there. Most people have never seen one. Ground…
The American Golden Plover is a stunning bird. The face and belly are jet black with a pure white strip running from the forehead, around the back of the face and down the neck.
Most of Canada is well-travelled by tourists and not off-the-beaten path. But there is one highway in Canada that is remote and relatively few Canadians go there. That is the Dempster Highway. It stretches some 736 km (457 miles) from Dawson…
Tuktoyaktuk is a village on the coast of the Arctic Ocean in Canada. It has a population of about 950. About 80% of the population are Inuvialuit (formerly known as Eskimos but they have reverted to their original name instead of the one that…
Winter skies create dramatic reflections on Reykjavik’s Tjornin (the name means “lake” or “pond.”) Tjornin is in the center of Reykjavik’s history and development with many government buildings around it, as well as…
Bathurst Island, at center of this NASA satellite photo, is new park site Canada’s Environment Minister, Leona Aglukkaq, announced a new bill last week, taking the first step to establishing Canada’s 45th National Park in Canada’s Arctic…
Got you with that headline, right? But it’s not a joke. The Russian airline Aeroflot has a K-9 unit that has received a patent concerning technology developed from studies of how dogs smell, and which has enabled training of dogs to better…
Ground Squirrels are fairly common in western North America. Many people call them gophers but this is not correct. A gopher is an animal that lives underground and stays there. Most people have never seen one. Ground…
The American Golden Plover is a stunning bird. The face and belly are jet black with a pure white strip running from the forehead, around the back of the face and down the neck.
Most of Canada is well-travelled by tourists and not off-the-beaten path. But there is one highway in Canada that is remote and relatively few Canadians go there. That is the Dempster Highway. It stretches some 736 km (457 miles) from Dawson…
Tuktoyaktuk is a village on the coast of the Arctic Ocean in Canada. It has a population of about 950. About 80% of the population are Inuvialuit (formerly known as Eskimos but they have reverted to their original name instead of the one that…
Winter skies create dramatic reflections on Reykjavik’s Tjornin (the name means “lake” or “pond.”) Tjornin is in the center of Reykjavik’s history and development with many government buildings around it, as well as…
