Au Canada, on se souviendra de cette année — 2023 — comme d’une année de climats extrêmes et mortels. Les incendies de forêt et la fumée, les inondations, la sécheresse, les températures extrêmes, les tornades et le réchauffement des océans ont affecté toutes les régions du pays.
Read MoreThis year – 2023 – will be remembered across Canada as a year of extreme and deadly weather. Wildfires and smoke, floods, drought, extreme temperatures, tornados, and warming oceans left no region of the country unaffected.
Read MoreLike most municipalities in Canada, we are grappling with how to prevent and prepare for the impacts of a warming world. As a tourism town nestled in a national park, Banff already faces several challenges – affordable housing, cost of living, and vehicle congestion, to name a few – but climate change is the most imminent one because it can cause dramatic change to our lives and livelihoods.
Read MoreLike most municipalities in Canada, we are grappling with how to prevent and prepare for the impacts of a warming world. As a tourism town nestled in a national park, Banff already faces several challenges – affordable housing, cost of living, and vehicle congestion, to name a few – but climate change is the most imminent one because it can cause dramatic change to our lives and livelihoods.
Read MoreThe Abbot Pass Refuge Cabin should still be standing, the snowmelt from its shake roof still flowing to both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
Read MoreLe Refuge-du-Col-Abbot devrait encore être debout, la neige fondant sur son toit de bardeaux s’écouler encore dans les océans Pacifique et Atlantique.
Read MoreFor Dr. Brian Menounos, Professor and Canada Research Chair for Climate Change at the University of Northern British Columbia, glacial monitoring and long-term data sets are extremely important for anticipating future trends and understanding how glaciers are responding to climate change.
Read MorePour le Dr Brian Menounos, professeur et titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada sur les changements climatiques à l’Université du Nord de la Colombie-Britannique, la surveillance des glaciers et les ensembles de données à long terme sont extrêmement importants pour anticiper les tendances futures et comprendre les réactions des glaciers au changement climatique.
Read MoreÀ l’automne de 2022, après quatre longues années de planification, d’un nombre étourdissant de reports dus à la pandémie, et d’une reconnaissance réussie (mais hâtive) en 2021, nous avons foré et extrait une carotte de glace de 327 mètres hors de l’éprouvant plateau du sommet du mont Logan.
Read MoreIn the spring of 2022, after four protracted years of planning, multiple head-spinning pandemic-induced delays, and a successful-but-hasty reconnaissance in 2021, we drilled and retrieved a 327-metre deep ice core from Mount Logan’s brutal summit plateau.
Read MoreTongarsoak is a powerful spirit that guards the Torngat Mountains of northern Nunatsiavut, Labrador. The soaring peaks are the highest mountains in North America east of the Rockies (1,600 metres above sea level), and have been the homeland of the Nunatsiavut and Nunavik Inuit for millennia.
Read MoreBy their very nature, selected guides provide information on a limited number of peaks and routes – so where does one go to find information on alternate peaks or routes? Guidebook author David P Jones ponders the question.
Read MoreBritish Columbia is blessed with an abundance of glaciers, or about 16,428 individual ice masses based on the last provincial inventory. These glaciers act as important buffers for many mountain ecosystems since they provide cool, plentiful water to mountain rivers during late summer when the seasonal snowpack is depleted.
Read MoreWhen viewed from above or in a postcard, the mosaic of different colours of lakes in the Canadian Rockies appears serene – but their pristine and idyllic looks can be deceiving. Multiple novel and extreme environmental changes related to human activities are increasingly altering many of these lake ecosystems.
Read MoreTen years ago, Mike Gibeau, then the carnivore biologist for Banff National Park, identified a problem: collisions between grizzly bears and trains were increasingly prevalent. Between 2000 and 2010, ten grizzly bears there were struck and killed by trains and several more unconfirmed strikes were reported. Learn more about how monitoring these collisions may help.
Read MoreRescinding the 1976 Coal Policy was a turning point in awareness about the threat posed by surface mine operations in Rocky Mountains and foothills. The desire to develop the coal resources of the Rockies dates to the beginnings of colonial settlement in western Canada.
Read MoreHow the Stoney Nakoda First Nations are informing science in the Rocky Mountains, and preserving traditional knowledge in the process. This methodology was needed for a number of projects taking place in Stoney Nakoda Traditional Territory.
Read MoreFor so many of us, in so many ways, the past year has been profoundly challenging. For the Vancouver Island Marmot, a species recovering from the brink of extinction in the remote sub-alpine of its namesake island, every year has been a challenge, and this year has been … basically okay?
Read MoreOne year in (at the time of writing), the pandemic has underscored vulnerabilities and inequities, revealing the dark side of humanity while elevating in others a sense of compassion, selflessness, and hope. The experience is new and rife with paradox. This is the story of the pandemic as experienced by one mountain community: Revelstoke, British Columbia.
Read MoreNames are important. In 2019, a hut built by The Alpine Club of Canada was honoured with an Indigenous name: Hišimy̓awiƛ (Hi-SHIM-ya-wit). It means “Gather Together” in the Barkley Sound dialect of the Yuułuʔiłʔatḥ (Ucluelet) First Nation, one of several Nuu-chah-nulth peoples who have lived on the west coast for millennia.
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