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This week:
- Tourists in Alaska help pay for local heat pumps
- Disappearing rails in Canada
- How Yukon is fireproofing an entire city
Tourist hotspots put visitors’ money to work for the climate
Sharyn Augustine has seen climate change up close during the 20 years she’s lived near the Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, Alaska.
“It was a huge glacier. It’s melted hundreds and hundreds of feet in the time that I’ve been here alone,” she told the radio program What On Earth. “It’s quite sad really because we get so many tourists come here in the summer just to see the glacier.”
But for the past few years, tourists — more specifically, tourism dollars — have…
