Nearly 50 people flee Wekweètì as wildfire rages near community
Nearly 50 people fled Wekweètì, N.W.T., Thursday after a wildfire erupted about two kilometres away, said the community’s senior administrative
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Environment (Canada)
Months worth of rain expected over the weekend near southern Mackenzie Mountains
Residents on the land should be ready to leave their camps or cabins quickly A storm is expected to drop
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City of Whitehorse considers adding $2.2M to budget to cover landslide costs
City applying for federal funding to pay for long-term solution at clay cliffs The most recent road-closing spring landslide — and
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Salmon are dying in dried-up river beds in northern Yukon
‘What we have been seeing … is that dewatered area was much, much, much larger than it had been in
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4000 sq km burned near Sambaa K’e. What does that mean for fish?
As other communities have seen, wildfires can bring big and small changes After a wildfire tore through the forest around
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Feds say Agnico Eagle has failed to protect caribou at Nunavut gold mine as promised
Company ordered to comply with its permits to operate, or face penalties The federal government says Agnico Eagle Mines is not
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Efforts to heal hole in ozone layer also helped Arctic sea ice, study suggests
Without Montreal Protocol, Arctic polar cap would be almost 1 degree warmer by 2050 An international policy struck decades ago
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Sambaa K’e burn could fit Yellowknife 24 times, part of ‘alarming’ wildfire season
With months still to go in this fire season, N.W.T. well on way to hitting 10-year average for area burned
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Arctic could be ice-free as early as 2030s says study
New modeling suggests that even under a low emissions scenario, the Arctic could experience ice-free Septembers as early as the
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Record-breaking heat in N.W.T., Nunavut, has “scary” implications for land users
Délı̨nę, N.W.T. hunters cautioned from hunting on Great Bear Lake in May There are two words being used to describe
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Evacuation order issued for wildfire-threatened Sambaa K’e, N.W.T.
The wildfire had consumed nearly 50,000 hectares of land in the N.W.T. An evacuation order has been issued in Sambaa
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Kátł’odeeche, N.W.T. wildfire didn’t grow at all over the weekend
Firefighters working to make reserve safe for residents to return, says N.W.T. Fire Fire officials in the N.W.T. say the
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Oldest town in Yukon almost wiped out by ice jams and flooding
‘It’s a real traumatic setback,’ says Roberta Joseph, chief of the Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin First Nation The historic town site of
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Proposed N.W.T. Forest Act acknowledges Indigenous rights to harvest wood
Some public hearings scheduled this week cancelled because of South Slave wildfire Public hearings about the N.W.T.’s proposed Forest Act
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Fire danger rising in southern N.W.T., with no relief in sight
The risk of wildfires remains high in the southern part of the N.W.T., and the forecast is calling for more
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