This post is an update on the river erosion situation in Noatak, where a new channel is being cut by the Noatak River.
Shane Thompson, the N.W.T.'s minister of Environment and Climate Change as well as Municipal and Community Affairs, gave an update on the out-of-control wildfire burning near Hay River and the Kátł'odeeche First Nation since Sunday.
I have never seen so many little tunnels on my lawn before.
“We spent the weekend outdoors camping on the peninsula and notices shoreline grasses has dried and shriveled.”
Twenty-three of the 25 fires so far this year were ignited by human activity. While this year’s heavy snowpack and cold spring pushed back the start to fire season in many parts of the state, climate change is generally causing an earlier snowmelt, said climatologist Rick Thoman.
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