Chinook salmon spend about a year and half in freshwater before making the journey to the ocean. While chinook salmon tend to get the most attention during their epic spawning runs in the summer, Yukon’s waters are teeming with the fish year-round — including during the winter. In […]
Meachen et al. report on the best preserved, oldest wolf mummy to date. Zhùr, meaning “wolf” in the Hän language of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in, was only 7 weeks old when she died more than 50,000 years ago. Here, they reconstruct Zhùr’s short life, including the environment she lived […]
IN THE SUMMER of 2016, a gold miner in Canada’s Yukon Territory found an unexpected treasure. While blasting a wall of permafrost with a water cannon to release whatever riches might be found inside, Neil Loveless saw something melting out of the ice. It wasn’t a precious mineral, but […]
From time to time, the problems we all face can seem overwhelming. Headlines on environmental stories these days can be shocking, sometimes even terrifying, when they talk about collapse of biodiversity and loss of large wildlife species, massive insect die-offs, and pollution affecting large waterways and lands. But […]
Climate change is causing glaciers in Alberta, British Columbia and Yukon to retreat faster than at any time in history, threatening to raise water levels and create deserts, scientists say. Climate change is one of the key environmental concerns for 2019. David Hik, an ecology professor at Simon Fraser […]
The minute-long video from the Yukon, Canada, shows the wolverine booking it straight down the highway after the hare. Occasionally, the raven swoops into view and appears to run interference, slowing the varmint down. “He wants to have a meal too, he’s helping him out,” one of the men says […]
At least 16 new bison babies were born this spring in the heart of Banff’s backcountry, bringing the herd’s total number to 66 animals. The little reds, as are they are nicknamed, were born from early May through early June, but Parks Canada’s bison team didn’t get a visual […]
Returns of adult sockeye salmon in B.C.’s Fraser River were supposed to clock in at nearly one million this year. Instead, the forecast has been revised down to what would be a record-low return of 283,000. Head north to Yukon, and it’s a similar story. Officials had expected to see […]
Wolverines are majestic and powerful creatures. There are also one of the most elusive on Earth. Thanks to organisations like Yellowstone to Yukon, we are learning more about the locations and movements of the Wolverine in Southern Alberta and BC in Canada as well as northern Montana in […]
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