Trying to understand how a map relates to what’s on the ground can be tricky. It requires the brain to do a lot of stuff that it doesn’t customarily do daily. This is one of the reasons that ...

Forest Ridge Park offers wilderness navigation classes to equip hikers with essential outdoor navigation skills.

The magnetic compass is the last unknown sense in migrating animals. For some scientists, the monarch butterfly is leading ...

There are actually two North Poles. One has been wandering over northern Canada and north of there for years. An earth scientist explains why and what it means for holiday travel.

Fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and even a few mammals rely on magnetoreception for navigation. But the exact mechanism ...

When Santa is done delivering presents on Christmas Eve, he must get back home to the North Pole, even if it’s snowing so ...

Getting lost during a hike sounds like a nightmare for most people. Not only can it totally ruin your trip, but depending on ...

Losing GPS would mean losing a lot more than Google Maps. The technology is integrated into everything from lights that turn ...

So the magnetic north pole is drifting away from Canada toward Russia. This continued in the year just passed, and the newest ...

Each year, Olive Ridley sea turtles travel thousands of kilometres across the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal, only to arrive ...