Lithalsa Formation and Holocene Lake‐Level Recession, Great Slave Lowland, Northwest Territories
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DOI: 10.1002/ppp.1901
Abstract: Lithalsas (ice‐cored permafrost mounds) are common within silty clay sediments of the Great Slave Lowland, a low‐relief bedrock plain extending to about 50 m above Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories. Following retreat of the Laurentide… read more here.
Keywords: northwest territories; lake level; lowland; slave lowland ... See more keywords
Comparative study of arsenic toxicosis and ocular pathology in wild muskrats (Ondatra zibethicus) and red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) breeding in arsenic contaminated areas of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories (Canada).
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DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.126011
Abstract: The Giant Mine is an abandoned gold mine in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. Throughout its operation from 1948 to 2004, the Giant Mine released heavy amounts of arsenic trioxide into the environment, thus contaminating the… read more here.
Keywords: northwest territories; pathology; giant mine; yellowknife northwest ... See more keywords
Freshwater cumulative effects and environmental assessment in the Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories: challenges and decision-maker needs
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DOI: 10.1080/14615517.2019.1596596
Abstract: ABSTRACT There is a recognized need to advance cumulative effects assessment to regional and ecologically meaningful scales, but such initiatives are often critiqued for being isolated from management contexts and the regulatory practices of project-based… read more here.
Keywords: decision; northwest territories; cumulative effects; environmental assessment ... See more keywords
Understanding the privatisation of funding for sport for development in the Northwest Territories: a Foucauldian analysis
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DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2017.1310742
Abstract: ABSTRACT In the Northwest Territories (NWT), Canada, the political landscape has created opportunities for mining, oil, and gas (‘extractives’) industries to ‘replace’ some of the federal and territorial governments’ provision of social programmes. With the… read more here.
Keywords: understanding privatisation; northwest territories; sfd nwt; sport development ... See more keywords
Dietary Intakes of Traditional Foods for Dene/Métis in the Dehcho and Sahtú Regions of the Northwest Territories
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DOI: 10.3390/nu14020378
Abstract: A dietary transition away from traditional foods and toward a diet of the predominantly unhealthy market is a public health and sociocultural concern throughout Indigenous communities in Canada, including those in the sub-Arctic and remote… read more here.
Keywords: dene; saht regions; northwest territories; dietary intakes ... See more keywords
Vascular plants of Victoria Island (Northwest Territories and Nunavut, Canada): a specimen-based study of an Arctic flora
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DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.141.48810
Abstract: Abstract Victoria Island in Canada’s western Arctic is the eighth largest island in the world and the second largest in Canada. Here, we report the results of a floristic study of vascular plant diversity of… read more here.
Keywords: northwest territories; subsp; study; taxa ... See more keywords