The melt creates potential salmon habitat while attracting attention from mining companies. A new paper published in Science says that as glacier ice melts, new land and rivers are being revealed in the ice-covered transboundary region shared by northern B.C., Alaska,...

SFU researchers say environmental policies need to be more future-thinking as climate change progresses As climate change forces the rapid retreat of glaciers across B.C., scientists say there is one potential silver lining: freshly exposed habitats for salmon. But it...

The Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs’ Office, participating in a study led by researchers from Simon Fraser University, finds that mining companies are staking claims on future salmon habitats as glaciers retreat. In the ice-covered transboundary region shared by northern...