Canada mining push puts major carbon sink and Indigenous lands in the crosshairs

Mongabay
Jun 2, 2022, 5:48 pm272 pts
Since the last ice age, wide rivers have meandered toward the southern shores of Hudson Bay in Canada, to join its salty waters. On their way, they’ve created swaths of wetlands, filled with carbon-packed peat bog. The Cree Indigenous people who have lived here for millennia call these peatlands Yehewin Aski,…

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