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Rapidly thawing permafrost is acidifying streams across North America

Streams are abruptly acidifying and turning orange or milky-white across vast regions of North America’s northwest. This is caused by permafrost thaw — an outcome of a warming climate that has immediate consequences for water and wildlife.

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Earth’s deep memory is thawing with the Arctic permafrost, degrading records of our ancient world

Permafrost usually hits the news as a hazard; a planetary risk. When this ice-rich ground thaws, it damages roads and building foundations. It drains lakes and tips trees into drunken forests. It releases greenhouse gases that have been locked in carbon-rich soils for thousands of years, amplifying warming, driving further…

The Conversation

US residents angry at datacenters ‘being shoved down our throats’ are recalling officials

People across the country are pushing for moratoriums, and electeds who approve projects are being punished

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White Pass & Yukon Route: One of the world’s most scenic rail journeys returns for summer

Built in 1898 during the Klondike Gold Rush, the iconic White Pass & Yukon Route offers journeys from Skagway in Alaska into British Columbia and Canada's Yukon Territory.

Euronews

Ancient squirrel poop from Arctic permafrost contains DNA from mammoths, bison, horses and big cats

Prehistoric squirrel droppings were analyzed and found to contain genetic material of numerous ice-age beasts, plants, microbes and fungi.

LiveScience

Ancient squirrels ate meat like 'zombies,' and the proof is in the poop

Frozen ancient squirrel feces from Canada's Yukon have revealed a lost Ice Age world. These coprolites, dating back up to 700,000 years, contain intact DNA from mammoths, cheetahs, bison, and hundreds of plant and insect species. The findings offer a detailed biological record of Pleistocene North America and a surprising…

The Economic Times

Woolly mammoth among trove of ancient DNA found in squirrel poo

PARIS (FRANCE) - A huge treasure trove of ancient DNA from animals including extinct woolly mammoths has been discovered in frozen squirrel faeces in Canada's remote Yukon territory, scientists said Tuesday.

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'A Critical Period': Canada Confirms First Presumptive Hantavirus Case Among Cruise Ship Returnees

A Yukon resident in British Columbia tested presumptively positive for Andes hantavirus, linked to a cruise ship outbreak. Health officials monitor the situation, emphasising low public risk.

International Business Times UK

Weather tracker: Deep freeze grips Canada as US records warmest Christmas

Temperatures plunge below -50C in the Yukon, while swaths of US experience springlike weather

The Guardian - UK

Magnitude-7.0 earthquake shakes remote wilderness on Canada border

The quake was also about 56 miles from Yakutat, Alaska

The Independent UK

From earthquakes to wildfires, Canada is woefully ill-prepared for disasters

A fault line in Canada’s Yukon territory has stirred after more than 12,000 years of geological sleep. Researchers studying the Tintina Fault, which stretches 1,000 kilometres from northeast British Columbia into the Yukon and towards Alaska, have found evidence that the fault has built up at least six metres of…

The Conversation

An 'ice tsunami' in 2024 ripped through the Yukon with such force it tore up trees and the riverbed

Chunks of river ice tore down trees after a landslide caused a tsunami in the Yukon in December.

LiveScience

The evidence is clear: National pharmacare for contraception can’t wait

Why should women in British Columbia, Manitoba, Prince Edward Island and the Yukon have access to free contraception while the rest of Canadians do not? Our new research, published in the British Medical Journal and JAMA Pediatrics, underscores the urgent need for universal prescription contraception coverage nationwide. Spoiler alert: cost…

The Conversation

Hidden fault beneath Canada could trigger massive earthquake after 12,000 years of silence

Advanced satellite and lidar mapping has uncovered signs that the Tintina fault in Canada's Yukon may be primed for a powerful earthquake.

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'Sleeping giant' fault beneath Canada could unleash a major earthquake, research suggests

A new assessment of the enormous Tintina fault suggests it has been slowly accumulating strain over thousands of years.

The Guardian - UK

Polar heritage sites are slipping into the sea – but can one island live forever online?

On Qikiqtaruk, off Canada’s Yukon coast, scientists are wielding virtual-reality cameras, 3D models and digital archives to protect the island’s history and culture before it disappears

The Independent UK

Inside the mad world of Canada’s hair-freezing competition

Minus-20C temperatures usually call for a beanie to avoid a frozen barnet – but not in Canada. Damien Gabet travelled into the wilderness to wet his tresses and let the frost style an up-do worthy of the Yukon’s International Hair Freezing Contest

The Walrus

“Yukoners Are Pissed”: The Outcry over Telecom Failures

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Standoff as Canada Yukon town council refuses to swear oath to King Charles

Council locked in standstill, citing the crown’s tarnished relations with Indigenous peoples in the region

The Walrus

Should the Arctic Really Brace for an Invasion from China or Russia?

The people who live there would rather see more housing and maybe some dentists

LiveScience

Fool's Gold is driving a new accelerating climate feedback loop in Canada

A hut sits at an altidue of 1,800 meters near the Mackenzie Mountains in Yukon, Canada.

The Walrus

The Spectacular Fall of Victoria Gold, Once the Darling of Yukon Mining

Taxpayers will be stuck paying for the cleanup of the Eagle mine disaster

The Conversation

Slow mining could be a solution to overconsumption in an increasingly fast-paced world

A “fast” approach to business — characterized by overconsumption across supply chains — has become almost ubiqutous in recent years.

The Walrus

Canada’s Emergency Shelters Are Failing

Four deaths at a Whitehorse facility underscore the need for housing reform

The Guardian - US

FAA investigating after Southwest plane flies 525ft above Oklahoma town

Boeing 737 from Las Vegas to Oklahoma City dipped above Yukon nine miles from airport, sounding like ‘wall of wind’

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