The fires that have ravaged the Canadian north and west since the beginning of the year have already burned 14 million hectares of forest. Currently, the Northwest Territories are particularly hard hit. Map: Fire Information for Resource Management System US/Canada...
Last July, a combination of lightning, dry weather and unusual heat fuelled hundreds of wildland fires in northern Canada. According to federal authorities, 136 fires were burning in the Yukon and 65 in NWT (pictured above) on 6 July, the date this image was taken...
While in Alaska the drilling ban is mainly limited to the ANWR protected area and production continues further west, there is a complete ban on Canada’s Arctic coasts, which is now to be extended. Photo: US Geological Survey It is not only on the north coast of...