Jacques Cinq-Mars, a man perhaps best known for his research in some of the more remote parts of the Yukon, has died. His son, a colleague and a resident of Old Crow, where a large portion of his work took place, share their memories of Cinq-Mars.
Category: Technology
Tom Lakusta, the manager of forest resources at the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, said the territory is studying the impact wildfires have on carbon that’s been collecting in the ground for thousands of years.
The department is keeping a close eye out after several North Atlantic right whales were spotted off northern Newfoundland last month.
It’s quiet, it’s deadly, and it’s half a kilometre from the Canadian border.
An Indigenous environmentalist and an ecosystems scientist say the N.W.T. has a responsibility for protecting its peatlands, because they store a significant amount of carbon that will increase climate change if its released into the atmosphere.