Environment watchdog criticizes Canada's handling of risky, costly contaminated sites in the North | CBC News

Canada’s environmental watchdog is criticizing the federal government’s handling of contaminated sites in the North, saying large abandoned mines present immediate and long-term risks to the environment and people’s health. 

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https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/10/27/20000-toxic-sites-in-sagging-arctic-permafrost/

Exposed yedoma permafrost along an eroded #Arctic coast. Image courtesy of the #NationalParkService.

#Yedoma is an organic-rich (about 2% carbon by mass) #Pleistocene-age #permafrost with ice content of 50–90% by volume.
"The deposits formed due to a combination of aeolian, colluvial, nival, and alluvial deposition and simultaneous ground ice accumulation. [...] #thermokarst

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825217300508?via%3Dihub

#ClimateChange #GlobalBoiling #permafrost #toxicsites