A Canadian island named by Captain Cook prepares to throw solar eclipse party
Reuters In the remote town of Burgeo on the east coast of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, some residents are enthusiastically waiting to view Monday’s rare solar eclipse and recreate the history of an island named by Captain James Cook. British explorer Captain Cook, who was in Newfoundland in 1766 witnessed the solar […]
The Long Read: Climate change means the Inuit do what they’ve always done – adapt
MELISSA RENWICK and CLARE BALDWIN, reporting for Reuters, look at a sea ice moniroting program that pairs Inuit knowledge with data collection buoys and electromagnetic sensors to give communities real-time measurements of sea ice thickness along their ice “highways”…
Trudeau to survey Fiona damage as residents battle blackouts
Port aux Basques, NewfoundlandReuters Prime Minister Justin Trudeau plans to visit Canada’s storm-ravaged eastern provinces as soon as this week, as thousands of residents were still without power more than two days after storm Fiona swept homes into the sea and left at least one person dead. Fiona was one of the worst storms to […]
Canadians clean up after Fiona sweeps homes out to sea; one dead
Port aux Basques, Newfoundland, CanadaReuters It will take several months for Canada to restore critical infrastructure after the powerful storm Fiona left an “unprecedented” trail of destruction, officials said on Sunday, as crews fanned out in five provinces to restore power and clean up fallen trees and debris. One 73-year-old woman died during the storm […]
Goodbye, Columbus: Vikings crossed the Atlantic 1,000 years ago
Washington DC, USReuters Long before Columbus crossed the Atlantic, eight timber-framed buildings covered in sod stood on a terrace above a peat bog and stream at the northern tip of Canada’s island of Newfoundland, evidence that the Vikings had reached the New World first. But precisely when the Vikings journeyed to establish the L’Anse aux […]
Snapshot: Newfoundland, Canada
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SNAPSHOT: THE BATTERY, ST JOHN’S, NEWFOUNDLAND
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