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  1. You can still homestead in Canada

    Homesteading. You know it as the way that Canada and the U.S. effectively crowdsourced the development of their…
    #Canada #northernCanada #YukonTerritory
    europesays.com/canada/144582/

  2. A Surprising Find in Ancient Squirrel Poop: Woolly Mammoth Meat

    During the Klondike gold rush at the turn of the 20th century, prospectors learned that there was more…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #Animals #Arcticregions #Canada #Fossils #paleontology #Research #squirrels #your-feed-science #YukonTerritory
    newsbeep.com/us/694150/

  3. Hype for the Future 74K: Canada 🇨🇦 Explained

    Introduction Canada is the second-largest sovereign state in the world in terms of land area, behind only Russia. However, the population size overall is significantly smaller, having only surpassed the U.S. State of California fairly recently (circa 2023), with the Provinces of Ontario and Québec holding the vast majority of the national population. Interestingly, British Columbia and Alberta are the next two largest provinces by population, the latter of which may seem surprising at […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  4. Grizzly bear emerges during blizzard in captivating trail-cam moment

    A wildlife photographer in Canada’s Yukon Territory on Thursday shared trail-cam footage revealing what an approaching grizzly bear…
    #NewsBeep #News #Wildlife #CA #Canada #DavidTroup #grizzlybear #Science #Wildlifephotographer #YukonTerritory #YukonWildlifeCams
    newsbeep.com/ca/296913/

  5. #4 - Wildfires. I've never been close to one before. Let alone three.

    I don't know if the Yukon is seeing more wildfires than average, but I was reminded that fire is nonetheless an essential part of the lifecycle of the forest.

    None were threatening any major infrastructure at the time. The day before I left a big part of the territory got a pretty heavy rainfall, which I imagine will tamp them down significantly.

    #Yukon #YukonTerritory #wildfire #wildfires

  6. Former #YukonTerritory entrance seen before 2020 from the former Yankee Harbor.

  7. Gateway to the #underworld: The enormous #permafrost '#megaslump' in #Siberia that keeps getting bigger

    The growing "gateway to the underworld," officially known as the #BatagayMegaslump, is the largest megaslump in the world and exposes permafrost layers that are 650,000 years old.

    By Sascha Pare
    published September 13, 2024

    "The 'gateway to the underworld' is a colossal, expanding crater in Siberia's permafrost. It is officially called the #Batagay (also spelled #Batagaika) crater or megaslump and formed when a portion of hillside in the #YanaUplands collapsed in the 1970s.

    "However, the crater wasn't discovered until 1991, when satellite images revealed a rounded cliff face towering over a huge depression in the frigid landscape.

    "The Batagay crater is the largest megaslump in the world, measuring 3,250 feet (990 meters) wide as of 2023. The cliff face at the top of the formation, or headwall, stands 180 feet (55 m) high.

    "When it opened, the gateway exposed layers of permafrost that had been frozen for up to 650,000 years — the oldest permafrost in Siberia and the second-oldest in the world, after relict ground ice in #Canada's #YukonTerritory that is about 740,000 years old. Recently, researchers found that the gateway is expanding annually by about 35 million cubic feet (1 million cubic meters), with the depression sinking further into the ground and exposing new layers of ancient permafrost.

    "The headwall of the gateway is also retreating at a rate of 40 feet (12 m) per year due to permafrost thaw, discharging massive amounts of ice and sediment into the crater, according to a 2024 study. Some of this melt material may remain in the crater, but #sediment and ice also washes into the #BatagayRiver valley at the far end of the gateway, researchers noted in the study.

    "The permafrost in this region is 80% ice, which is likely why the hillside slumped in the first place, Thomas Opel, a paleoclimatologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany who has studied the gateway to the underworld, previously told Live Science.

    "The gateway sits in a landscape of larch and birch #woodlands that became the target of #deforestation from the 1940s onward. Deforestation caused the #topsoil to rapidly erode and expose the underlying permafrost, which — due to its icy composition — melted more quickly than if it had been richer in sediments. Significant melting during the following decades caused the hillside to disintegrate and collapse, Opel said."

    Read more:
    livescience.com/planet-earth/a

    #ClimateChange #Underworld #Methane #Melting #GlobalWarming #ClimateCatastrophe

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