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What If and So What in Northwest Canada: Could Climate Change Make a Differen...
The article discusses the potential impacts of global warming on the Mackenzie Basin in northwestern Canada. -
Climate Change Adaptation - Best Practices for Natural Resource Development i...
This document reviews existing climate risk management and adaptation activities, and recommends best practices for adaptation applicable to the resource sectors in Canada's North. -
A Guidebook on Climate Scenarios - Using Climate Information to Guide Adaptat...
This guidebook is meant to provide increased capacity to understand climate information; better evaluate climate information needs; and become more critical of provided... -
NWT Environmental Research and Monitoring Results Workshop: Dehcho Region
This report summarizes a workshop held in Fort Simpson in 2016. Environmental research and monitoring results in the Dehcho region were shared and discussed. -
Assessing Climate Change Risk on Abandoned or Orphaned Mine Sites in Ontario,...
We evaluate reclamation plans for reference to climate change; increased monitoring needs; vulnerabilities to weather events; and thresholds of extreme weather. -
Living With Frozen Ground - A field guide to permafrost in Yellowknife, North...
This guidebook describes some of the challenges to development that permafrost, or frozen ground, presents to the City of Yellowknife. -
Guide on Climate Change Adaptation for the Mining Sector
The guidance describes a three-stage process that mine owners can apply to consider and incorporate climate change adaptation considerations into decision-making. -
Canada in a Changing Climate - National Issues Report
This report focuses on climate change impacts and adaptation issues of national importance or that are best understood through an integrated, pan-Canadian perspective. -
Canada's Arctic Marine Atlas
In this atlas, we present a series of views of the Canadian Arctic marine environment, from physical geography, to biology and ecology, and on to human patterns and administration. -
Managing Natural Assets to Increase Coastal Resilience - Guidance Document fo...
This document provides coastal communities with guidance about how to inventory their coastal natural assets, develop asset management options and evaluate alternatives. -
Health of Canadians in a Changing Climate: Advancing Our Knowledge for Action
This assessment provides evidence-based and quantitative information to show how Canada’s climate is changing, and the effects on health and health systems. -
Report On 2017 Field Activities and Collection of Ground-thermal and Active-l...
This report provides a summary of field activities, and air temperature, ground-thermal and active-layer data acquired in 2017 are provided in graphical and tabular format. -
Permafrost is warming at a global scale
Here we use a global data set of permafrost temperature time series to evaluate temperature change across permafrost regions since 2007. -
Wildfire Risk Assessment & Mitigation Plan - NTPC Hydro Facilities
This plan evaluates wildfire potential and provides mitigation recommendations to the NTPC facilities at Taltson, Bluefish, Snare, Fort Smith, Jackfish Lake, and transmission... -
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Assessment - The Substitution of Fossil Fuels with W...
This study analyzed three options for substituting fossil fuels with woody biomass in the NWT, to determine if they could significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. -
Permafrost Degradation Subarctic Canadian Shield
Recent ground temperature and observational data for lithalsas are examined in the context of an inventory of thermokarst ponding between 1945 and 2005. In presentation format. -
Predicting Future Potential Climate-Biomes for the Yukon, Northwest Territori...
This paper investigates how future Yukon, NWT and Alaska biomes may change using clustering methodology, land cover classifications, and historical and projected climate data. -
2023 Arctic Report Card
The 2023 Arctic Report Card provides an overview of the vital signs of the Arctic's land, ocean, and air, and relevant newsworthy reports on emerging issues in the Arctic. -
Variations of Climate, Surface Energy Budget, and Minimum Snow/Ice Extent ove...
Remote sensing is used to derive the annual minimum snow and ice extent over the Canadian Arctic landmass from 2000-2016. -
Summary of 2018 Mackenzie Delta Permafrost Field Campaign
This is a study monitoring permafrost thaw due to a warming climate, based around the Beaufort Delta region.