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In Canada's far north, warm weather threatens vital ice road

2015-12-25 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Each winter, in the far reaches of Canada's north, a highway of ice built atop frozen lakes and tundra acts as a supply lifeline to remote diamond mines, bustling with traffic for a couple of months before melting away in the spring. This year, the world's busiest ice road is running late. Unseasonably warm weather has set back ice formation on the Tibbitt to Contwoyto Winter Road, named after the first and last of hundreds of lakes on the route. The road is still expected to open on schedule...

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