Search results for yukon region

Environment Apr 9, 2024

Study finds 17 mountains at high risk of losing biodiversity under climate change

Species living in 17 mountains around the world are facing the risk of extinction due to the rapid rate of warming attributed to climate change. However, the establishment of additional meteorological monitoring stations ...

Ecology Mar 12, 2024

Wolverines vanished from California a century ago. Is it time to bring them back?

Wolverines could be poised for a comeback in California. A new bill seeks to reintroduce the solitary, muscular carnivores to the state's mountainous regions, where they were hunted, poisoned and trapped into oblivion more ...

Earth Sciences Feb 29, 2024

Surprising methane discovery in Yukon glaciers: 'Much more widespread than we thought'

Global melting is prying the lid off methane stocks, the extent of which we do not know. A young researcher from the University of Copenhagen has discovered high concentrations of the powerful greenhouse gas in meltwater ...

Earth Sciences Feb 9, 2024

How an unprecedented magma river surged beneath an Iceland town

A river of magma flowed underneath an Icelandic fishing village late last year at a rate never before recorded, scientists said Thursday, as the region suffered yet another dramatic eruption.

Social Sciences Dec 21, 2023

Following a star: Study explores the remarkable ways traditional cultures use their environment to navigate

A study has shed new light on remarkable feats of navigation from cultures across the world: from sailors in the Marshall Islands using wave patterns to navigate the vast Pacific Ocean to indigenous communities in Alaska ...

Environment Dec 13, 2023

From wildfires to melting sea ice, the warmest summer on record had cascading impacts across the Arctic

The year 2023 shattered the record for the warmest summer in the Arctic, and people and ecosystems across the region felt the impact.

Ecology Nov 24, 2023

Q&A: How can Canada best meet its commitment to protecting 30% of its land by 2030?

At last year's COP15 conference in Montreal, the Government of Canada set the goal of conserving 30 percent of the country's land and water by 2030. In a new study published in Nature Communications, a group of McGill University ...

Earth Sciences Nov 22, 2023

Study catalogs how dissolved inorganic carbon moves through southeast Alaska's waterways

Understanding carbon transport can offer important information about a changing climate. For instance, it can help scientists measure ocean acidification or other threats increased carbon levels pose to aquatic ecosystems. ...

Earth Sciences Nov 1, 2023

Flight-collected data links methane plumes to tundra fires in western Alaska

In Alaska's largest river delta, tundra that has been scorched by wildfire, is still emitting more methane than the rest of the landscape long after the flames died, scientists have found. The potent greenhouse gas can originate ...

Earth Sciences Aug 22, 2023

Long-term river chemistry study reveals how the Arctic is changing

A Florida State University scientist has helped uncover through a multidecadal study how changing water chemistry in Arctic rivers could impact the entire planet.

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