Posts tagged with ‘water’ (59)
Posted by Heather Yundt
on Saturday, December 08, 2012
In cased you missed it, here's a recap of what happened in geography news this week:
Bill C-45, which included changes to the Navigable Waters Protection Act, passed through the House of Commons this week unchanged, upsetting environmentalists. First Nations Chiefs protested the bill on Parliament Hill. More protests are planned.
Discussion of a Maritime Union continued, after three Maritime senators ruffled some feathers by putting forth the idea last week. The Globe ...
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Yukon Conservation Society Executive Director Karen Baltgailis canoeing down the Wind River with Mike Dehn, the former CPAWS Yukon executive director. Photo: J. Pangman
The Government of Yukon is holding public consultations on its land-use plans for the Peel watershed as the debate continues over how much of the pristine land should be available for industrial development.
The Yukon government manages more than 97 per cent of the Peel watershed, but four First Nations from the Yukon and the Northwest Territories also control regions of the Peel, an area encompassing 67,000 square kilometres.
The Peel Watershed Planning Commission released its final recommended ...
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In the latest instalment of the Indiana Jones franchise, the titular hero gets swept over a massive waterfall along with his companions. Amazingly, they survive the plunge unscathed. Dr. Jones doesn’t even lose his trademark hat in the river.
This summer while exploring an all but unknown river in the Hudson Bay watershed, I found out first-hand what it is like to be swept over a waterfall. Unlike in the Hollywood versions, it didn’t go quite as smoothly for me: I was a bit banged up, my canoe ...
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The wind was howling and dark clouds hung low on the hills. I had just paddled through an area about 30 km long where a forest fire had recently devastated the land. It was shocking! An eerie gloom hung over the skeletal forest that remained with blackened trunks pointing at the sky. My mood was low enough without the dark clouds and high winds. Then it started raining. Yuck!
As the weather deteriorated (high winds and more rain) I found a miserable slough "owned" by a beaver — a muddy and ...
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Posted by Michela Rosano
on Thursday, March 22, 2012
Today is world water day and with three bordering oceans, four out five of the Great Lakes and seven percent of the world’s renewable freshwater supply, the wet stuff is Canada’s lifeblood.
Perhaps some of the most disputed water resources in our country, the Great Lakes have been “polluted”, “cleaned up” and “polluted” again more times than you can shake a stick at. Need proof? Here’s a Great Lakes clean-up story from the December/January 1990-91 issue of Canadian Geographic.
There are 42 Areas ...
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