Besieged by Wildfires, Canada’s Northwest Territories Declare a State of Emergency

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. More than 230 fires are burning in the Northwest Territories of Canada, scorching over 8,000 miles of forest, and displacing hundreds of Indigenous and First Nations peoples. The population of the Northwest Territories is nearly 50 percent Indigenous. “It’s all just really terrifying,” said Morgan Tsetta, […]