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Live updates: countdown to the Artemis II launch
Live Updated 4 hours ago Live updates: countdown to the Artemis II launch Canadian Geographic is on the scene at Kennedy Space Center for the final countdown to this history-making mission, which will see Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen become the first Canadian to fly around the moon Dramatic skies illuminate NASA's SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft on launchpad 39B at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, Jan. 28, 2026.
Shackleton’s final ship honoured in new Fram Museum exhibit
The story of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s final voyage now has a new home. Oslo, Norway’s Fram Museum has opened a permanent display showcasing the 2024 Shackleton Quest Expedition and its discovery of the polar legend’s long-lost ship. RCGS CEO John Geiger presents the opening talk on Quest at the Roald Amundsen Memorial Lectures, held at the Fram Museum in Oslo, Norway on Nov. 28, 2025.
Exploring 1,200 years of history in the Faroe Islands
It is unclear why, exactly, Magnus Cathedral has lain in ruins throughout most of its existence. Built sometime around 1300, the magnificent Gothic structure looms to this day over the village of Kirkjubøur, roofless but still solid. Kirkjubøur is the Faroe Islands’ most important historic site, and a place from which the origins of the contemporary Faroes can be traced.
Bill C-18 update: How to stay connected with us
People & Culture Forthcoming changes to search and social media platforms may affect how you access Canadian Geographic content. Here’s how we are preparing. Aug 03, 2023 303 words 2 minutes Expand Image As you may be aware, due to a dispute with the Canadian government over Bill C-18, the Online News Act, Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has announced it will begin blocking access to news on those platforms for Canadian users.
Exploring music country: Everything to see and do in Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee
Stax Museum of American Soul Music Soul’s answer to rock’s Sun Records, Stax Records helped create the Memphis soul sound, and its artists from Booker T & the M.G.’s, Otis Redding, and Isaac Hayes are legends. This great museum captures the essence of soul, and nothing Elvis had in his garage at Graceland can compare to Isaac Hayes’s gold-plated 1972 Cadillac on display. It has a fur-lined interior, television, bar and gold windshield wipers.
Eating like “the King” in Memphis, Tennessee
Travel From catfish sandwiches to an Elvis-worthy lunch, these are some must-try spots in the music city of Tennessee Apr 24, 2023 661 words 3 minutes Expand Image The birthplace of blues, soul and rock ’n’ roll, Memphis is the musical heart of America. It is home to the Blues Hall of Fame, the Smithsonian-created Rock ’n’ Soul Museum, Sun and Stax Records and — most famous of all — Graceland. For most cities, that would be enough, but Memphis has a growing reputation as a foodie destination.
Q&A with Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall holds "Mr. H," her travelling mascot of 28 years. (Photo: Jessica Finn/Canadian Geographic) It’s been more than 50 years since Jane Goodall rocketed to global fame after National Geographic profiled her research with chimpanzees in what is now Tanzania. Today, the conservationist travels the world with her message about the urgent need for each of us to take action to protect the planet.
Keeping an Eye on the Grid
15 Nov 2018 By John Geiger New application gateway technologies at the network edge, enable highly-optimized industrial IoT solutions that enhance productivity of existing grid infrastructure. In other words, the traditional system utilities use to monitor DER and grid assets isn’t quite cutting it. To increase reliability and grid capacity, they need a device that collects data from grid assets, and rapidly signals changes. The result?
Endeavour by Peter Moore
An inventive biography of one of the most famous ships of all time - from the oak tree it was made from to its last voyage in the American War of Independence. The Enlightenment was an age of endeavours. From Johnson's Dictionary to campaigns for liberty to schemes for measuring the dimensions of the solar system, Britain was consumed by the impulse for grand projects, undertaken at speed.
Optimizing IIoT Edge-to-Enterprise Connectivity in Oil and Gas Production
Like many industrial areas, the oil and gas industry is in the midst of an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) evolution. Every oil and gas producer is connected to their assets, but not all are fully connected from edge to enterprise. Even fewer are able to easily integrate their legacy implementations with new IoT deployments.
Application gateways enable collection of edge data
Conventional Internet of Things (IoT) approaches to enterprise/edge connectivity in a broad spectrum of process facilities are being upstaged by new application gateway technologies. These devices enable collection of data from industrial assets at the edge and push that data to the cloud, without interrupting existing SCADA functionality and without the need to replace existing hardware.
Canadian Geographic to conduct review of past issues
“For decades, our coverage was racist. To rise above our past, we must acknowledge it.” Reading that recent news-making admission on National Geographic’s website gave everyone at Canadian Geographic pause. The magazine that’s dedicated to making Canada better known to Canadians and the world hasn’t been publishing for as long as National Geographic, but it has been around since 1930. That’s 88 years of telling Canadian stories from coast to coast to coast, and beyond.
Prince Albert II of Monaco explains how his country’s new ocean exploration initiative came to be
Floating islands of plastic. Water temperatures rising. Acidification increasing. Rampant overfishing. The world’s oceans are in a dire state. And one of the best-known royals in the world is doing something about it. Initiated by Prince Albert II of Monaco, the recently launched Monaco Explorations expedition will set sail in July on a three-year, round-the-world journey to conduct multidisciplinary scientific research in nine remote ocean areas (see map below).
On risk and the human drive to explore
Many people are cautious, some to the point of cowardice, and, in the words of the actor Victor Mature, “wouldn’t walk up a wet step.” Caution, within reason, is only natural. As Kenneth Kamler wrote in Surviving the Extremes, “No animal in its right mind ever intentionally puts itself in danger by going somewhere it doesn’t belong.” Yet, as Kamler notes, human beings do go where they don’t belong — for example, into the 8,000-metre-plus death zone of Mt. Everest.
Q&A with Jane Goodall
It’s been more than 50 years since Jane Goodall rocketed to global fame after National Geographic profiled her research with chimpanzees in what is now Tanzania. Today, the conservationist travels the world with her message about the urgent need for each of us to take action to protect the planet.
December 2014 issue
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