How The Big Melt Will Change Life for People and Nature
As BC’s coastal mountain glaciers recede the effects alter ecosystems. Can human engineering begin to compensate? Second in a series.
Christopher Pollon covers business, environment and the politics of natural resources. He’s the author of
The Peace in Peril: The Real Cost of the Site C Dam. He tweets @C Pollon. SHARES Pacific white-sided dolphins cruise Knight Inlet. The fjord that receives the melting waters of the Klinaklini Glacier has been home to First Nations for millennia.
Photo: Knight Inlet Lodge. [Editor’s note: To read the first instalment of The Big Melt, a special Tyee series, go here.]
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Organizers of the Bluewater International Granfondo, suspended in 2020 amid COVID-19, have their fingers crossed the cycling event will be back this August.
Notice was recently sent out that the granfondo – an long-distance ride that’s drawn up to 1,000 people in the past and has been rated Ontario’s top event of its kind – has been booked Aug. 1 at Mike Weir Park in Bright’s Grove.
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Whether it goes ahead will be contingent on provincial guidelines at the time, said Ken MacAlpine, one of its organizers.
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