Faster, cheaper, leaner and greener
Shawn Ryan has cracked the code. That's how he described the system he developed with GroundTruth Exploration, which is poised to revolutionize the way mineral deposits are found.
Virtual treading in pristine lands
Marten Berkman has spent a good part of his life photographing majestic landscapes in far flung places, like Ellesmere Island, Baffin Island, Ivvavik National Park and the Nahanni River.
Firewood without flakes
There's an endangered species roaming the forests from Haines Junction to Whitehorse these days - the solitary and elusive independent Yukon woodcutter.
Film fest looks to the North
In 1968, a teenage John Walker packed up his 35mm camera and boarded a coast guard supply ship, headed for the most remote communities of Canada's Arctic - known then as "Eskimo" country.
Frozen Globes honour northern business
A pan-northern business crowd gathered around a dripping ice sculpture at the High Country Inn on Thursday for the Frozen Globe Awards.
Piecing together Yukon’s dinosaurs, one fossil at a time
Truckloads of mammoth and bison bones arrive at the Yukon palaeontology unit every year, dug up by placer miners, adding to an impressive collection of Ice Age specimens.
Firefighters seek new recruits
In 1969, Clive Sparks was driving a water truck for the territorial government. He figured that he could also drive a water truck to a house fire, so he signed up for the Porter Creek Volunteer Fire Department. “‘Let’s see if a coat and boots will fit you,’” said Sparks. “That was my basic training.” Forty-five years later, Sparks is chief of the Whitehorse Fire Department.
Fleshing out the fossil record
Julius Csotonyi is a time traveller. With his scientific mind and artist's eye, he produces a vision of the prehistoric world, a time before humanity.
