Government researchers have travelled to Canada’s High Arctic each year since 1959 to measure glacier activity. And since the early 1990s, they’ve also monitored the weather stations that have been installed on the ice. But that all changed in 2020, when travel plans were abruptly cancelled due to COVID-19.

Glaciers the world over are melting and disappearing. In Western Canada, they’re thinning and retreating at dramatic and ever-increasing rates.

Have you ever wondered how forest researchers know how many trees are in a country as large as Canada? Look up, way up, because the answer lies in space.

March 2022

By Monica Rai, Communications Advisor, Scientific Communications Team

Marie-Claude Gros-Louis, who works at the Laurentian Forestry Centre (LFC) of the Canadian Forest Service, is a professional appreciated by both her colleagues and her clients. She is a triathlete and an entrepreneur, and her generosity toward the causes that are dear to her seems to have no limits!

The Women in Cleantech challenge has recognized a Calgary team’s groundbreaking technology to make lithium extraction more sustainable. The three-year-long competition to support women tech entrepreneurs was sponsored by Natural Resources Canada and powered by MaRS Discovery District.

February 2022

Shiva Tirdad is a new geophysical researcher and artificial intelligence specialist at Natural Resources Canada.

As a young girl growing up in Nova Scotia, Ellen Whitman was at the top of her class for biology, chemistry and all of her science electives — but she never thought she “fit” the role of scientist.

Researchers at CanmetENERGY Varennes have developed a new technology that could be a game-changer for building heating and cooling systems

February 2022

Recent research suggests that the earthworms of Canada’s forests could actually be accelerating climate change.

November 2021

By Nathalie Chaperon, communications advisor — Scientific Communications Team

By the end of 2024, more than 10 million people in Canada’s most earthquake-prone regions will be able to receive Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) alerts, giving them precious seconds to protect themselves.