Chris Burn at Carleton University is tracking the growing cost of maintaining Yukon’s Dempster Highway as warmer weather brings more landslides, washouts and other challenges.
A wildfire is burning in a remote area of northwest Alaska. The Alaska Fire Service reports that the Zane Hills Fire was discovered this week, and mapped at 1,900 acres.
The country's 3,300 miles of ice roads are a lifeline for marooned communities during frigid winters, but climate change is making the roads unsafe much earlier.
The past three winters have been particularly hard on road pavements. Wet winters with temperatures fluctuating on both sides of the freezing point have damaged even relatively fresh asphalt, leading to cracks, potholes and deep ruts.
Northern Manitoba town's grocery shelves are bare as residents face another blizzard.
A year after a fuel-carrying truck broke through the ice on the Deline winter road, the N.W.T.'s Department of Transportation has yet to release the results of an investigation into why the accident happened.
Every winter, a massive infrastructure project takes place on the North Slope one thats designed to disappear. Ice roads are built to minimize the oil industrys footprint on the sensitive tundra, and melt away in spring. Many of the oil industrys multi-million dollar projects on the North Slope cant be built until the ice roads are finished each year.
Construction is beginning today on the ice road connecting Yellowknife to Dettah on the N.W.T.'s Yellowknife Bay, but a warm November means that it will open in January for the second time since the 2006/2007 season, and the second year in a row.
Winter storm shuts down communication services for the community.
The storm raises local concerns about food security and preparedness for transportation emergencies.
Hazardous driving conditions due to freezing rain.
Unusually fast flooding on the Chignik River.
Visits Port of Nome before voyage through Northwest Passage.
A problem for outboards.
A newly built bridge in Tes soum of Uvs Province collapsed on Saturday during a heavy rain.
No Permanent Winter Ice and Early Break Up For Nome
Previously, the dredging started around May and ran through October, but the past three winters it has started earlier and run longer.
An ice road near Deline, N.W.T. is closed after a fuel tanker plunged through on Saturday.
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